Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vista Higher Learning is a company dedicated to developing culturally authentic language learning products for K-12 schools and universities. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Development team, focusing on innovation in digital language education products.
Responsibilities
- Participate in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Perform tests to optimize performance
- Write clean code to develop functioning web applications
- Work effectively and collaborate with different team members to deliver on-time and efficient projects
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree
- 7+ years of Senior level Software Engineering experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails or Python + JavaScript
- Demonstrated software architectural design experience, including data persistence and API design
- Strong understanding of networking and web browser protocols
- Advanced working knowledge of ix systems, and comfort working at terminal command line
- Advanced SQL and DB schema design knowledge
- Advanced working knowledge of git & GitHub
- Experience collaborating with other departments/teams
- Strong communication, listening and interpersonal skills to be able to actively listen to needs and respond to audience appropriately
- Experience with Sagemaker, AWS Poly, Azure Speech Service
- Experience with SQL, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch
- Experience building and deploying high-capacity applications in cloud environments, especially AWS
- A strong understanding of how to architect solutions for scalability and performance
- Experience working with LLMs and AI tooling for developers
- Experience with Ruby highly preferred
- Experience in ed-tech, education, language-learning or a similar industry
- Familiarity with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and best practices for meeting 2.1 AA compliance
Benefits
- Annual incentive based on employee and organizational performance
- Life/health/dental/vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Educational assistance
- Commuter pass subsidies
- Generous employee referral bonuses
- PTO and paid holidays
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