Software Engineer
Bangalore, India
The Opportunity:
Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. Our mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals.
We believe in the power of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. As we expand globally, we are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of not only our hiring practices but who we are as a company.
For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit www.anthology.com.
We are building up a new group within Anthology focused on the data platform. This team’s mission is to bring data together from across Anthology’s extensive product lines into our cloud-based data lake. We are the analytics and data experts at Anthology. Our team enables other development teams to utilize the data lake strategically and effectively for a variety of Anthology products. We deliver products and services for analytics, data science, business intelligence, and reporting.
The successful candidate will have a strong foundation in software development, scaled infrastructure, containerization, pipeline development, and configuration management as well as strong problem-solving skills, analytical thinking skills, and strong written and oral communication skills.
Primary responsibilities will include:
Learning quickly and developing creative solutions that encompass performance, reliability, maintainability, and security
Applying hands-on implementation solutions using the AWS tool suite and other components to support Anthology products that utilize an expansive data lake
Working with the development manager, product manager, and engineering team on projects related to system research, product design, product development, and defect resolution
Being willing to respond to the unique challenges of delivering and maintaining cloud-based software. This includes minimizing downtime, troubleshooting live production environments, and responding to client-reported issues
Working with other engineering personnel to ensure consistency among products
Through continued iteration on existing development processes, ensuring that we’re leading by example, fixing things that aren’t working, and always improving our expectations of ourselves and others
Thriving in the face of difficult problems
Working independently with general supervision
The Candidate:
Required skills/qualifications:
2-4 years of experience designing and developing enterprise solutions including serverless/functionless API services
Knowledge of the OOP
Data structure algorithm analysis and design skills
Knowledge of distributed systems and tradeoffs in consistency, availability, and network failure tolerance
Knowledge of professional engineering best practices for the full SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Knowledge of a broader set of tools in the AWS tool suite (CDK, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, S3, KMS, Batch, DynamoDB, DMS), Docker
Experience with Python, Typescript/JavaScript, Projen/JSII
Experience with SQL using Snowflake, Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, or other RDBMS
Fluency in written and spoken English
Preferred skills/qualifications:
Experience designing, developing, and operating scalable near real-time data pipelines and stream processing
Experience with designing and implementing ETL processes
Experience with fact/dimensional modeling (Kimball, Inmon)
Previous experience in the education industry and e-learning technologies
This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.
Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.
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