Lead Software Engineer

Overview

Build the Future

Do you enjoy testing the limits of possibility? At McGraw Hill, our Lead Software Engineers drive progress and help build the future of learning. If you have the passion and technical expertise to thrive in an innovative and agile environment, we want to learn more about you.

Your impact on the team

The Content Acceleration team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer with experience in helping teams deliver quality software. The content acceleration team is charged with deep collaboration with product and academic design teams to find creative ways to improve our speed to market for our curriculum products.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within Canada.

What you will be doing:

• Be the driving engineering force on your team and be able to clearly communicate business goals to your team
• Be an organizational leader in unlocking the potential of data to improve our user experience
• Collaborate with your partner product and program leaders to push projects forward by removing obstacles, think beyond the MVP, and clearly communicate status to stakeholders
• Provide creative solutions to content development professionals, using GenAI, automation, and process engineering
• Balance the need to solve deep technical problems with the larger macro goal of delivering software expediently and efficiently across a distributed microservice architecture
• Analyze business requirements and identify possible gaps, ambiguities, missing scenarios, etc.
• Design and implement sound engineering solutions that meet the business need
• Lead a distributed team to solve problems quickly and collaboratively
• Present a passion for building high-quality, user-friendly, scalable, reusable web components and microservices.
  
  

We're looking for someone with:

• 3+ years prior in a technical leadership position
• 8+ years of demonstrated software delivery experience with a distributed product & engineering team.
• Experience with full stack technologies such as Go and/or NodeJS for backend development, TypeScript, Angular 13+ for frontend development, and other technologies such as:
• Protractor, Playwright, RESTful Web Services
• Relational database design concepts (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Application Testing (unit, integration, performance, end to end) for full user journeys
• CircleCI, Docker, Kubernetes
• Amazon Web Services - RDS, Elasticsearch, SQS, S3
• Github, JIRA, Confluence, Zoom, Slack
• You enjoy researching new technologies and methodologies and have a keen desire to dig into complex technical issues.
• You seek out and use data to drive decisions to help your team and project succeed.
• 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 API applications, and crafting intuitive and responsive user interfaces for students and teachers so they can get the most out of our products.
  
  

Why work for us?

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.

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