Software Engineer

Cambium Learning Group; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering software development team within Cambium Learning Group is seeking a skilled developer to enhance their innovative educational platforms. This role involves developing scalable APIs and cloud-native architectures using AWS, ensuring system performance and reliability for a vital educational resource that impacts millions of students. The ideal candidate will possess strong software development skills alongside relevant K-12 assessment experience, contributing to a mission-driven organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field required.
• Experience in K-12 summative assessments valued.
• Solid understanding of algorithms necessary.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining APIs.
• Leveraging AWS for cloud-based solutions.
• Troubleshooting complex systems and enhancing performance.

Skills

Detail-oriented

Teamwork

Algorithms

Object-oriented Design

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

SQL Server

AWS

Job description

This group of professionals provide custom software solutions for our clients as well as internal support systems. Much of the work we perform is new development, so the right candidate will have the skills needed to perform full life-cycle software development. This includes participation in requirements gathering, application and database design, system documentation, writing and unit-testing efficient code, and deployment.

Job Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining APIs to facilitate communication between various systems and services.
• Leveraging AWS cloud services for infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and management.
• Implementing cloud native system architectures using AWS services for scalable and cost-effective application development.
• Implementing architectural and design refactoring to allow us to reliably and elastically scale to meet variable loads
• Designing and optimizing very large backend data stores for a diverse range of transactional and reporting loads
• Collaborate with our team of educational content and UX designers, product managers, QA staff, and DevOps engineers to ensure the timely delivery of educational software products
• Troubleshoot complex problems across a multi-tiered architecture and support deployed systems on production
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability by leveraging AWS cloud services, containerization, and other best practices.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or related field) with software development experience
• Previous K-12 summative assessment experience.
• SQL Server experience to include development work with relational databases, stored procedures, triggers, writing SQL queries
• Experienced in object oriented (OO) analysis and design principles, along with a demonstrated experienced knowledge in OO design
• Solid understanding of algorithms
• Excellent data-based skills
• Highly detail-oriented
• Ability to work well on a team, as well as autonomously

Why Work With Us?

When you work with Cambium Assessment, you’ll be helping to design and build inspiring solutions that make a real impact on the online testing industry, as well as the educators and students we support.

Our systems are highly scaled and mission critical serving over a third of all students in grades 3-8 in the United States.

Our web applications are highly interactive and universally accessible.

Our machine scoring methods are driven by artificial intelligence allowing computers to perform such complex operations as grading essays with more accuracy than humans.

Our processes use intensive algorithmic computing allowing a customized experience for each student as the exam adapts real-time based upon answers given.

In the 2021–2022 school year, we delivered more than 100 million online tests, successfully supported peak testing volumes exceeding 1.3 million simultaneous test takers, while ensuring an average response time of less than a tenth of a second. We have the most advanced features of any online testing system, and we continue to push boundaries to improve student performance measurement and enabling educators with actionable insights to drive better overall educational outcomes for our students. To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.cambiumassessment.com

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.

Cambium Learning Group is the education essentials company.

With an intentionally curated portfolio of respected global brands, Cambium serves as a leader in the education space, helping millions of educators and students feel more universally valued each and every day. In everything we do and across all our brands, we focus on the elements that are most essential to the success of education

Simplicity - Across all our teams and all areas of our business, we create simplicity, making things easier and more clear for all those we work with.

Certainty - We continually strive to eliminate doubt, delivering solutions, services and communications that our customers know they can count on.

Now - We understand the need to make a difference not only for the future, but for today, and our people are committed to making the most of each moment we spend serving our customers.