Senior Software Engineer: Build Next-Gen Education Platform

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a fast-paced team building a modern cloud platform for K-12 education. You will independently drive software development, participate in code reviews, and translate ideas into high-quality code used by students and teachers.

You’ll work with modern tech like microservices, React, Spring Boot, Docker, and AWS, while advancing engineering best practices and exploring new data engineering and ML capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 6+ years of experience in software development.
• Experience working with a team on large projects.

Responsibilities

• Work independently and as part of a software development team taking responsibility for solving big challenges.
• Understand goals around quality and engineering discipline and participate in code reviews at the team level.
• Great at turning ideas into code, and making that code usable by your teammates, and the company.
• Propose and implement technical solutions to problems and deliver to customers, taking end-to-end responsibility for the design and efficient high quality delivery of one or more components.
• Looks ahead, finds and avoids pitfalls for the team.
• Eagerly learn and apply new cutting-edge technologies like functional programming, distributed computing, machine learning, advance data engineering, and serverless computing.
• Contribute to our engineering culture and ever-improving concept of engineering best practices

Skills

Logical problem-solving

Collaborative teamwork

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Git

Jira

React

Web Components

Spring Boot

Node.js/Express

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL

noSQL

in-memory

AWS

Apache Mesos

Apache Kafka

Apache Spark

Amazon Kinesis

Job description

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a fast-paced team building a modern cloud platform for K-12 education. You will independently drive software development, participate in code reviews, and translate ideas into high-quality code used by students and teachers.

You’ll work with modern tech like microservices, React, Spring Boot, Docker, and AWS, while advancing engineering best practices and exploring new data engineering and ML capabilities.