Sr. Software Engineer
Civitas Learning is bringing together the best of new technology, design thinking, and data science in our mission to help one million more students graduate each year. We are building a data platform and cloud-based applications to deliver insights and action analytics to the frontlines of education. We are looking for insanely talented people who want to jump in and roll up their sleeves with us to make it all happen, and do their best work of their careers.
- Deliver state of the art designed and engineered solutions that leverage best practices in distributed computing and Service Oriented Architecture in order to make our customers successful
- Build and maintain a successful collaborative relationships with groups outside of engineering including Data Science/Engineering, Product Management, Operations, and Customer Success
- Grow or transform current platforms and products that incrementally build out our technical vision that adapts to new customer needs and enables a sustainable innovation cycle across all stages of the pipeline.
- Lead other talented engineers in software engineering design and best practices with a focus on scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Help grow the team by interviewing and recruiting other engineers
- BS in Computer Science or related field
- 8+ years software engineering
- Expertise in designing and building platform technologies that support message oriented and RESTful, multi-tenant services
- Expertise in building analytics that are fast utilizing a variety of technologies
- Knowledge in Agile development practices
- Java
- Scala
- Python
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- Amazon RedShift (or other column store databases).
- ETL
- Git (or other modern source control)
- Build Management tooling (Maven, Gradle, etc).
- Continuous Build Systems (Jenkins, Bamboo, etc)
- Linux
- AWS
- Secure development practices
- Big Data Pipeline technologies or techniques
Civitas Learning offers medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as a 401k plan. We also have a generous flexible, paid time off policy.
About Civitas Learning:
Civitas Learning brings together the best of leading-edge technology, design thinking, and data science in our mission to help a million more students a year learn well and finish strong. We are a mission-driven company dedicated to forever changing higher education for the better.
Using a cloud-based, predictive analytics platform and engaging applications, Civitas Learning helps partner institutions bring deep insights to decision makers, and personalized, real-time recommendations directly to the front lines for students, faculty, and advisors to measurably improve student learning, persistence, and graduation.