Sr. Software Engineer - (Node.js) at Syrinx (Boston, MA)

Job Description

McGraw-Hill Education is a learning science company that delivers personalized learning experiences that help students, parents, educators, and professionals drive results.  You can be a part of a strong, dedicated engineering team that makes a real difference in people’s lives every day!
 
The Access Manager Engineering team is looking for experienced, smart, and adaptable people to join the engineering team.   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, reporting to the Lead Software Engineer, will primarily focus on developing the Access Manager product – McGraw-Hill Education’s product licensing and bulk rostering tool.
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 the team to solve problems quickly and collaboratively
• Present a passion for building high-quality, user-friendly, scalable, reusable web components

 
Our Stack Includes:

• Node.js
• MySQL
• Angular 7
• Docker, ECS
• Github
• JIRA

 
About You:

• You have demonstrated software delivery experience with a focus on back-end engineering
• 3+ years working with languages such as Node.js, Java, PHP, or Go
• You can work in a fast-paced software release environment, where you deliver software for a system with millions of users
• You can collaborate with other teams in different locations distributed across the globe
• You are excited about building scalable applications, and crafting intuitive and responsive user interfaces so our users can get the most out of our products

 
Strong Applied knowledge of the following:

• RESTful Web Services (experience producing and consuming REST services)
• Relational database design concepts (MySQL)
• Application Testing (unit, integration, performance, end to end)
• JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, AJAX
• JavaScript Frameworks & Libraries (e.g. Angular, Bootstrap, Material, React, JQuery, Express)
• Responsive Web Design/Development
• Code Quality and Code Review

 
Some understanding of the following:

• Cloud Technologies (preferably Amazon Web Services – ECS, RDS, SQS, S3)
• Build/deploy tools (CircleCI, Grunt/Gulp, npm)
• Source/Version control systems (Git)

 
The following is a plus:

• Strong understanding of UI and UX
• Ruby and/or Python

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