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Staff Engineer
Location:
Lake Forest, IL
Description:
RedShelf is a fast-paced and growing Chicago-based EdTech company helping to make education both more affordable and more effective through the use of digital instructional resources. Partnering with more than 600 publishers and 1,900 campuses nationwide, we provide a leading-edge, end-to-end software platform for effortlessly distributing those materials to students and instructors. Job Summary: As a Staff Engineer , your job will be to work on every part of our digital textbook & courseware platform. You will have an immediate effect on our business success as well as the success of millions of university students by building databases, writing distributed systems, microservices, message buses/queues, and creating front-end Uis in our stack: TypeScript, Python, PostgresQL, and AWS (particularly Lambda). You will both work independently and lead other engineers in designing and developing mission-critical services, applications, and infrastructure. You will succeed by coupling critical thinking with self-motivation, passion and determination and working effectively alone as well as with your teammates. Duties & Responsibilities Write and maintain quality software Build world-class systems by writing tests, adding metrics, detailing design, and writing runbooks Be a core member of a development team, participating in a daily scrum and other agile rituals Track, triage, debug, and resolve systemic issues while respecting uptime SLAs Create and iterate on RFCs with your peers to ensure optimal system design Research and implement new technologies to solve complex problems Own and improve the codebase by participating in code reviews Grow personally and professionally as you learn from your peers Requirements : 7+ years experience as a developer 4+ years experience with a back end programming language (Python, Node, etc) 4+ years experience with TypeScript and a major UI framework (React, Vue, etc) 4+ years experience regularly writing unit, integration, & UI tests + know the difference! 2+ years experience with a serverless framework like AWS Lambda or GraphQL 2+ years experience with observability tools & good understanding of metrics & alerting 2+ years of experience with higher ed software, course materials, and digital publishing How to create a RESTful web service start to finish, from database design to application design to API design How to implement a mockup as well as business logic What SOLID stands for, what the Gang of Four design patterns are, and routinely apply both in your code What idempotence, pure functions, and functional chains are, and use them frequently The difference between Monolithic, Microservice, and Serverless architectures and their respective pros and cons Continuous Integration / Delivery principles and practices Other Desirable Skills/Experience: Mentoring and learning from others Learning new concepts and technologies on your own (at work or otherwise) Challenging yourself to improve day by day, technically or otherwise Why RedShelf? RedShelf prides itself on maintaining an informal but fast-moving, hard-working, entrepreneurial culture. Our team members are smart, innovative, and passionate about improving education through digital technology. We offer the best of both worlds: the energy and opportunity of a rapidly-growing organization coupled with the stability of an extensive client base, strong financial backing, and proven track record of success. In addition to a forward-thinking environment with ample opportunity for professional and personal growth, our team members enjoy competitive compensation and benefit packages. RedShelf is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, people of color, individuals with a disability, veterans, and others who would enrich the diversity of RedShelf are encouraged to apply. Powered by JazzHR
Company:
Redshelf
Posted:
July 16 on The Resumator
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