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Description

Staff Software Engineer 

Remote - Colombia 

*ONLY CVs SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH WILL BE CONSIDERED* 

The Opportunity: 

Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. Our mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals.   

We believe in the power of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. As we expand globally, we are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of not only our hiring practices but who we are as a company. 

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

This role focuses on Blackboard Learn, a product in which we pride ourselves on creating well-designed web and mobile solutions to support learners, instructors, and administrators. Blackboard Learn 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. 

The Staff Software Engineer will be responsible for leading the development of a consistent SaaS infrastructure and core services across Blackboard Learn SaaS that aligns needs of our application teams. This role will be instrumental in leading Anthology to be a provider of the most comprehensive education technology platform available. 

This position will interface closely with other application and enterprise architects, as well as product development, SRE, and security teams, and coordinate software and infrastructure standards across a broad set of products and services. They will partner with the various stakeholders to advise on the best strategy for infrastructure as code adoption, services logic at scale, aid in the research of new technologies, and provide crucial input into the design of technology stacks for new service development.  

Successful candidates for this position will have a passion for technology and architecture and understand how to apply technology to business objectives and client needs. They will have wide and diverse skillsets, adaptability to change, and strong leadership skills. In addition, they will show strong communication skills, a proven track record of building consensus across larger organizations, and the ability to foster strong cross-team collaboration on technical topics. 

Primary responsibilities will include: 

• Researching and inventorying existing infrastructure, microservices, and technology used across all product teams
• Developing software engineering standards and guidelines to develop consistency across teams and drive to a common technology platform
• Interfacing with AWS on efficient adoption of the services they provide
• Researching emerging technologies from AWS and other SaaS providers and evaluating potential adoption
• Collaborating with teams on emerging software development needs and developing requirements and plans for the adoption of new services
• Aiding architects and development teams in the design of new services to ensure optimal use of infrastructure to deliver features
• Working closely with security team to ensure that security controls are implemented consistently across all infrastructure services
• Communicating architectural plans and changes to various stakeholders in the organization
• Creating technical documents for internal use as well as client-facing purposes

The Candidate: 

Required skills/qualifications: 

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• At least 6 years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer with focus on infrastructure, enterprise software development, and/or in IT operations with at least 4 years in a senior engineering, architecture, or technical management role
• Strong experience of various infrastructure technologies like storage, networking, virtualization, and containerization
• Experience in web application development (Java, Node.js, Python), JavaScript libraries/frameworks such as React/Vue, and experience implementing Web Services (REST API), authentication, CI/CD lifecycles, and pipelines
• Strong experience of infrastructure as code such as CDK Constructs, CloudFormation templates, Terraform, and configuration management like Chef/Ruby
• Experience operating infrastructure on public cloud providers like AWS or Azure
• Experience in developing standards in collaboration with stakeholders and driving adoption across organizations
• Strong oral and written communication skills, ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience providing technical leadership and guidance to a team of developers, mentoring and coaching them to foster their technical growth
• Ability to guide and participate in technical decisions
• Works to achieve operational targets with major impact on the departmental results
• Demonstrates technical innovation in supporting business objectives and mission
• Contributes to the development of goals for the department and planning efforts (budgets, operational plans, etc.)
• Quick learner with strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• May manage processes that span outside of immediate job area& works independently with limited supervision
• Fluency in written and spoken English at CEF B2 level or above

Preferred skills/qualifications: 

• Exposure to TDD and XP practices
• 5-7 years of experience

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.