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Location

Texas City, TX | United States

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Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Java/AWS

• Employees can work remotely
• Full-time

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft, and ProctorExam.

Turnitin has offices in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. Come join us, and let's make change together.

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer at Turnitin, you'll apply your talents in an agile environment that has the creative energy of a start-up, a highly flexible work environment, a culture of innovation, and most importantly other talented engineers, designers, and product managers to interact with and learn from.

Responsibilities

• Make significant contributions implementing our shared services, as well as help maintain and upgrade existing ones.
• Hands-on position which requires 90-95% of writing code.
• Provide guidance in technical design and development activities.
• Ensure future success and stability through code reviews and automated testing.
• Work closely with software architects and database/operations engineers on system infrastructure and design.

Qualifications

Minimum needed:

• 7+ years experience of designing and developing applications using Java
• Experience in more modern Java technologies
• 5-7 years of experience with relational databases
• 1+ year of cloud development with AWS preferred
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Extensive experience with software development best practices (e.g. design patterns, test-driven development, code profiling, debugging).
• Effective technical and cross-functional communication (product, design, operations).
• High level knowledge and experience of industry trends and technology advancements relating to distributed systems, cloud, platform as a service, and software as a service.
• Experience in building cloud-ready solutions based on microservices and multi-tenancy architecture.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing

Nice to Have:

• Hands-on experience with pure core Java development & performance tuning
• Experience with Cloud Native solutions preferably AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3, etc)
• Extensive experience with different architecture types including event-driven architecture
• Experience in working with geographically distributed teams including the USA & European countries

Additional Information

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.


Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
• Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other's successes.
• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.
  

Required Skills : Must have: - Any modern framework (Angular, React, Vue) o Currently using React so they need to be willing to pick this up o Principal-level opening needs to be a React Developer - HTML/CSS - PostGreSQL Nice to have: - AWS experience - DynamoDB
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :IMPORTANT: The candidate would need to be able to convert over at 6 months
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :No
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Development/Engineering
Master Job Title :Dev: Other
Branch Code :Dallas

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