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Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Knewton, New York, NY
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Duration: Full-Time
This is a great opportunity to:
- Drive technology initiatives to improve the scalability, resilience, and performance throughout our platform
- Mentor engineers and help them grow to their full potential
- Be a thought leader and actively engage in continuously improving practices and methodology across the company
- Collaboratively work with talented engineers, data scientists, product managers and UX designers to deliver quality software features to our users
- Express your voice on how to build great software on the team and across the company
What we are looking for:
- 6+ years experience in software development, 4+ years of which are specific to backend development on scalable distributed systems
- Proven full-lifecycle development experience on large projects, creating robust and scalable solutions
- In-depth understanding of the full-stack of a cloud-based distributed platform
- Expert level understanding of Java or some other typed language e.g. Scala, C++, Kotlin
- Basically all the necessary skills to develop backend code that is well-tested, robust to traffic, and designed to survive multiple iterations of the product
- Experience mentoring junior engineers
- Passion for education
Perks include:
- Competitive salary, great health insurance, and equity
- 401k match!
- Great coworkers with a passion for empowering students and educators
- Flexible hours, no vacation policy, and paid maternity/paternity leave
- High-quality equipment (default: a new Macbook Pro with a giant monitor)
- Social groups and sports teams
- Fully stocked kitchen with all-day snacks and a full bar
- Free lunches everyday and free dinners when you work late
- Free monthly MetroCards/PATH cards
About Knewton
Our mission is to personalize learning for the world. No two students come from the same background or learn the same way. With Knewton adaptive learning, every student is supported and challenged. Knewton offers integrated adaptive courseware for colleges and universities across North America. Also, education companies and publishers use Knewton Enterprise to build or enhance powerful adaptive learning products across grade levels and subject areas.
Want to learn more about Knewton? Visit Knewton's website.
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