Position Purpose:

We are looking for a curious, self-driven Software Engineer to join our Software Engineering team at Benchmark Education. We focus on building fantastic software to meet the challenges facing literacy learners and teachers. Our software enables and supports a wide range of next generation learning experiences with the promise of doing even more with the right technology team members. Our teams at Benchmark design, build, and manage customer facing and backend technology solutions using a variety of technologies.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work independently and as part of an Agile software development team taking responsibility for solving complex problems.
• Competent at turning ideas into code, and making that code usable by your teammates, and the company at scale.
• Advance our goals around quality and engineering discipline
• Test, analyze data, and improve constantly

Job Requirements/Skills and Experience:

Primary Qualifications:

• 3-5 years’ experience in software development or engineering. Completion of a software coding bootcamp or a bachelor's degree in computer science or related field is preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise with Computer Science principles in object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithm design and complexity analysis
• Expertise in at least one of the following, preferred expertise in more than one:
  • Java
  • ES6 JavaScript
  • PHP 7.x
• Ability to work in a collaborative agile environment

• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, configuration management, quality assurance, and release management.
• JavaScript and Web Development experience:
  • Single page application development using ES6 JavaScript
  • React framework and Redux state management
  • CSS, LESS, or SASS
  • Unit testing with Jest, Enzyme, Mocha and Chai
  • Frameworks such as React, Redux, Backbone, or Vue JS
  • Data visualization packages such as D3
• Application and Service development experience:
  • SQL and NoSQL datastores such as MySQL and MongoDB
  • Familiarity with basic design patterns and UML
  • Familiarity with PHP 7.x, Laravel, and PHP Unit
  • Familiarity with Spring projects for Java
• AWS technologies: RDS (Aurora), Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, RedShift, EC2, SQS, SNS, Cloudwatch, S3, or Cloudfront
• Container technologies, e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, Apache Mesos
• Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong communication skills and work ethic; self-starter.
• Ability to apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts, and contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas.
• Experience working on unusually complicated problems and providing solutions that are highly creative and ingenious, exhibiting ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness.

About Us 

Benchmark Education Company is a leading publisher of core, supplemental, and intervention literacy and language resources in English and Spanish, both print and digital, as well as world-class professional development. Since its founding in 1998, our company has proven to be one of the most nimble and innovative content creators on the cutting edge of pedagogy and technology. The digital content in our many learning programs delivers all the rigor of its print counterpart and is designed for virtual and blended learning contexts. 

Benchmark Education Publishing (BEC) and its affiliates are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

For further information, visit us at: https://www.benchmarkeducation.com