Anthology Careers

Description

Staff Software Engineer

Chennai, India

The Opportunity: 

Anthology delivers education and technology solutions so that students can reach their full potential and learning institutions thrive. Our mission is to empower educators and institutions with meaningful innovation that’s simple and intelligent, inspiring student success and institutional growth.

The Power of Together is built on having a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of our hiring practices and who we are as a company.

For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit www.anthology.com. 

This role focuses on Anthology's LMS, Blackboard, where we pride ourselves on creating well-designed web and mobile solutions to support learners, instructors, and administrators. Blackboard allows learners and instructors to access online educational experiences wherever and whenever they want through web and mobile devices.  Our technology helps instructors breathe life into educational content, brings efficiency to day-to-day tasks, and empowers instructors with tools to engage and assess every learner. We help motivate learners by promoting collaboration, communication, and connections with their peers and instructors.

As Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for demonstrating expertise with Java and REST APIs. You will become an active member of an agile team of developers participating in daily stand-ups, design sessions, code reviews, and sprint demos. You will embrace test driven development as an integral part of what you deliver as a software developer. You will also be willing to respond to the unique challenges of delivering and maintaining cloud-based software including troubleshooting live production environments, minimizing downtime, and responding to client-reported issues. You would build the capabilities for looking at the complete stack of technology layers for providing fixes and developing features.

The Candidate:

Required skills/qualifications:

• 8-12 years of experience designing, writing, and deploying scalable software
• Experience with the Java stack, SQL databases, and web application development
• Strong experience with Object-Oriented design and coding
• Strong oral and written communication skills, ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Quick learner with strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Expertise in writing unit and integration tests
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithm analysis, and design skills
• Expertise in UI development using JavaScript based frameworks like React or Angular
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred skills/qualifications:

• Exposure to XP (Extreme Programming) practices like Test Driven Development (TDD)

• Experience with cloud-based hosting solutions (AWS)

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.

Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.