Fast Facts

Join McGraw Hill as a Software Engineer III (Backend) to contribute to innovative learning platforms that positively impact millions of educators and students worldwide. This remote role involves designing scalable solutions and collaborating with diverse teams to enhance personalization features.

Responsibilities: Design and implement engineering solutions that fulfill business needs while collaborating effectively with product sponsors and senior leadership. Build high-quality, user-friendly infrastructure, tools, pipelines, and microservices for our Open Learning platform.

Skills: 3+ years of experience with backend languages such as Go, Java, or Node.js, alongside strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills. Proficiency in RESTful web services, data pipelines, relational databases, and cloud technologies, particularly AWS.

Qualifications: Demonstrated software delivery experience in a distributed environment with a passion for building scalable applications that handle large data volumes.

Location: Remote position open to applicants authorized to work within the United States.

Compensation: $115000 - $135000 / Annually

Overview

Impact the Moment

At McGraw Hill we create best-in-class, next-generation learning platforms that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide every day. We design intuitive and effective tools and experiences that maximize teachers’ time and students’ learning. And we do all of this in a supportive and collaborative environment where we work alongside brilliant colleagues, touch lives around the world, see the difference our hard work makes, and continue our paths of lifelong learning

Your Impact on Team

The Insights and Personalization Engineering team is looking for experienced, smart, and adaptable Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join the team.  The key trait is thought leadership through problem solving: This individual must exhibit independent creativity, a curiosity to research new technologies and methodologies, and a pervasive desire to dig into complex technical issues while respecting timelines and team commitments. This position will focus on building our capability to deliver personalization features on a scale for products on our Open Learning platform.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

What You’ll Do:

• Use your interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate effectively with product sponsors and senior leadership in engineering and business
• Analyze business requirements and identify possible gaps, ambiguities, missing scenarios, etc.
• Design and implement sound engineering solutions that meet the business need
• Work with a distributed team to solve problems quickly and collaboratively
• Present a passion for building high-quality, user-friendly, scalable, reusable infrastructure, tools, pipelines and microservices
• Leverage technologies to automate workflows, continuous testing, and monitoring of data pipelines

About You:

• You have demonstrated software delivery experience with a distributed product & engineering team
• 3+ years working with languages such as Go, Java, or Node.js
• You can work in a fast-paced software release environment, where you deliver production-grade (zero downtime, fault-tolerant, etc.) software daily for a system with millions of users
• You can contribute to the full software development life cycle – including writing application code, writing unit/integration/automation tests, documentation and performance engineering
• You are excited about building scalable applications processing large amounts of data

Our Stack includes:

• Python, Scala, GO 
• Github Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS
• Aurora, Databricks
• Amazon Web Services – S3, RDS, SQS, Kafka
• Github
• JIRA, Confluence, Zoom, Slack

Experience with following technologies is required:

• RESTful Web Services (experience producing and consuming REST services)
• Data pipelines in Databricks
• Relational database design concepts (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Cloud Technologies (preferably Amazon Web Services – ECS, EKS, RDS, Elasticsearch, S3)
• Code Quality and Code Review
• Infrastructure automation using Terraform or similar tools
• Build/deploy tools (including GitHub Actions)
• Git

Why McGraw Hill?

The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively designing content that will build the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights.

The pay range for this position is between $115,000 - $135,000 annually. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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