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We are seeking a passionate Senior Software Developer to create innovative, high-quality applications, ensuring product ownership and leadership within a collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include collaborating with product management, decomposing business requirements into technical tasks, deploying cloud-based services on AWS, optimizing backend processes, mentoring team members, and conducting debugging and testing.

Skills: Required skills include expert Java 8+ development, SpringBoot, RESTful APIs, AWS services (like Lambda and ECS), microservices design, Docker, JavaScript technologies (Angular, Node.js), SQL, and agile practices.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include experience with learning services technologies, Git, GraphQL, Cloud Architecture, monitoring tools, and AWS certifications.

Location: This job is located in Boston, MA, USA.

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $110,000 - $150,000.

We are looking for engineers who are passionate about building innovative applications of the highest quality and demonstrate ownership of the product area assigned to them.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the product management team to ensure we're building the best products.
• Ability to comprehend business requirements, map them to technical requirements, and decompose them into estimated stories and tasks.
• Perform research, analysis, design, and implementation, and provide effective solutions for short-term and long-term needs
• Evaluate new technologies and software products to determine the feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities into the platform.
• Deploy and manage cloud-based services on AWS, leveraging services such as CodeBuild & Pipeline, Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and API Gateway.
• Ensure that code adheres to strict standards for accessibility, security, object-oriented practices and performance
• Optimize backend processes for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Write and execute both unit and integration tests
• Ability to debug identified issues and track down root cause of the issue across the technology stack
• Mentor other team members and developers
• Effectively engage and positively contribute within a well-functioning offshore team, while also providing strong leadership during onshore hours.
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Qualifications

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience, with strong fundamentals and problem solving skills.
• 5+ years experience in software development roles
• Expert knowledge and capabilities in Java 8+ development, SpringBoot, RESTful APIs, Java Application Servers, HTML / CSS.
• Strong understanding of microservices design principles and best practices.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services, such as ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, and S3.
• Experience with containerization tools like Docker, CDK and orchestration using AWS Fargate
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript technologies such as Angular and Node.js
• Experience with unit testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, Jasmine.
• Experience with SQL and relational database design.
• Experience building and deploying services in AWS
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot distributed systems/services.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with learning services technologies such as the SCORM object reference model, IMS QTI and IMS LTI standards, and any Learning
• Experience with with Git is a plus
• Knowledge of GraphQL a plus
• Knowledge of UML and design patterns
• Exposure to monitoring and logging tools like CloudWatch, Datadog
• Experience writing modular code in an agile environment with CI/CD
• Knowledge of concepts and standards such as SOLID, Dependency Injection, AOP, JSON.
• Understanding of Cloud Architecture and experience working with AWS resources
• AWS certification is a plus (Cloud Practitioner or higher)
• Ability to effectively use AI to accelerate software design and implementation