At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.
Summary:
The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for delivering product enhancements to our award-
winning cloud-hosted educational software platform by leveraging state-of-the-art technology
frameworks collaborating closely with product management on engineering teams.
Essential duties/responsibilities:
1. Develop software in collaboration with product owners, to deliver i-Ready experiences.
2. Collaborate with architects and senior engineers to design robust software ensuring seamless
customer experience at scale.
3. Operate with a continuous improvement mindset, conducting code and design reviews, as well
as leveraging state-of-the-art code quality and productivity tools.
4. Develop automated unit and integration tests to accompany all application code.
5. Contribute ideas and effort to improve efficiency of our software development lifecycle.
6. Drive code maintainability by addressing technical debt and defects proactively.
7. Communicate clearly and consistently utilizing verbal and written forms, to ensure seamless
progress on shared team goals.
8. Engage in personal and peer development through mentorship program participation.
9. Engage in proactive learning to improve functional as well as technical knowledge.
Required Job Skills and Abilities:
1. Strong communication skills.
2. Expertise with Java, Spring, Hibernate/JPA and related frameworks.
3. Experience delivering cloud-hosted software services at scale, preferably AWS.
4. Proven experience in designing features to meet business needs.
5. Strong experience with SQL, Relational and Non-Relational databases.
6. Proven experience in database design and performance tuning.
7. Experience developing containerized services using docker.
8. Experience working in an Agile environment, including experience with Scrum.
Required Education and Experience:
1. Bachelor’s in computer science preferred
2. 8+ years of experience in web application development.
