Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Build the Future

Do you enjoy testing the limits of possibility? At McGraw Hill, our Software Engineers drive progress and help build the future of learning. If you have the passion and technical expertise to thrive in an innovative and agile environment, we want to learn more about you.

How can you make an Impact?

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack) who will be helping contribute to one of our Learning Tools teams that is a key part of McGraw Hill's digital learning platform. The services you help develop will provide content used across K-12, Higher Ed, Professional and International segments. Millions of students rely on the content and services every day to achieve their educational goals, which is even more critical in today's world of hybrid and remote learning

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States. Preference will be given to those in the Eastern Time zone.

What can you expect from the position?

• Can successfully plan & execute projects involving multiple developers and complex requirements, prioritizing strategically while being focused on technical decision making.
• Proactive in identifying and clearing roadblocks for the team.
• Collaborate with engineers on your team on feature development and bug fixes.
• Participate in the design and development of applications and services to support various business and engineering initiatives.
• Promote engineering best practices within your team to ensure quality, stability, performance, resiliency, and maintainability of your software.
• Work with Product Managers and the team to groom the product backlog.
• Be a champion of the customer's voice and ensure our products are built with customer empathy at the forefront.
• Trusted to always share status with all stakeholders and proactively remedy communication issues.
• Leads delivery of major initiatives on clear timelines and share knowledge and practices with other teams.

What can you bring to the role?

• 7+ Years of experience in product or enterprise software development using technologies.
• Strong hands-on experience on the full software stack: Frontend, Backend / API, Databases in a variety of technologies such as (but not limited to): Angular 13+, Go, Node.js, RESTful Web Services, CI/CD, Docker, Terraform, AWS, MySQL, PostGreSQL, Redis.
• Proven technical abilities in software development, testing, monitoring, performance tuning and deployment pipelines.
• Executes pragmatically, consistently delivering high-quality, non-disruptive releases.
• Passion for engineering best practices
• Focus on application quality and testing practices like unit, integration and e2e testing, code coverage analysis and automated software inspection.
• Strong sense of customer empathy and a commitment to delighting customers.
• Ability to work across functional and domain boundaries to deliver software on time and with quality.
• Demonstrated experience with developing on the Cloud.