Lead or Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join ITHAKA, a mission-driven organization expanding access to knowledge and education globally, as a Lead or Senior Software Engineer. You'll contribute to high-impact products used by millions, leveraging technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, and Java. This role demands full-stack expertise, collaboration within an Agile team, and continuous deployment. ITHAKA offers competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and a commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace. The position allows for remote work within the continental US. Depending on experience, the role can be at a Senior or Lead level, with specific requirements for each.

Requirements

• 2 to 5 years of experience as a full-stack software engineer building large-scale, distributed web applications
• Experience with cloud infrastructure services–and AWS in particular
• Experience creating and operating backend services using languages like Python, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript with frameworks like Fast API, NodeJS or Spring Boot
• Experience creating and operating user-facing applications using frameworks like React or Vue
• Experience creating and managing APIs for use by multiple teams using REST or GraphQL
• Experience using a decentralized version control system like Git in a collaborative context on a platform like GitHub or GitLab
• Experience creating and operating containerize applications, particularly in a Kubernetes environment using Docker
• Familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g. JUnit, Jest, pytest, Playwright) and TDD practices
• Experience mentoring other engineers in a technical and interpersonal capacity
• Exceptional communication, thoughtfulness, and desire to give and receive regular feedback
• An additional 3 or more years of professional experience, for a total of 8 or more years of experience as a full-stack software engineer building large-scale, distributed web applications

Responsibilities

• Participate as an empowered member of a collaborative Agile team to design, develop, and maintain high performance applications
• Leverage continuous deployment and test automation tools to deploy application changes to production multiple times per day
• Interact with internal and external customers to understand their needs and drive the development of web applications to meet those needs
• Implement rich, interactive web applications using the latest technologies, frameworks, and patterns
• Leverage web analytics to support product discovery and to measure project KPIs
• Test, measure, and optimize performance using application performance management tools
• Participate in the on-call rotation as a first point of contact for applications you own
• Demonstrate leadership skills in mentoring team members and articulating and evangelizing new technologies, methodologies, and processes
• Participate in analysis of pricing, risk/reward, cost advantages, and resourcing to support technological improvements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience utilizing Open Search for powering ML based solutions
• Experience using profiling tools to analyze and optimize application performance like Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus
• Experience with cache management, content delivery, and application security at the edge using CDNs like Fastly or CloudFront
• Experience with data modeling in relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL and MySQL) or NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB and DynamoDB)
• Experience securing large applications against SQL injection, XSS, CSRF and other exploits
• Experience with serverless and event driven architecture

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• An employer-paid 10% retirement contribution
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• 22 days of paid time off
• 11 paid holidays
• Up to 12 sick days
• Wellness benefits