Senior Software Engineer, II (Hybrid)

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For more than 80 years, Kaplan has been a trailblazer in education and professional advancement. We are a global company at the intersection of education and technology, focused on collaboration, innovation, and creativity to deliver a best in class educational experience and make Kaplan a great place to work.

Our offices in India opened in Bengaluru in 2018. Since then, our team has fueled growth and innovation across the organization, impacting students worldwide. We are eager to grow and expand with skilled professionals like you who use their talent to build solutions, enable effective learning, and improve students’ lives.

The future of education is here and we are eager to work alongside those who want to make a positive impact and inspire change in the world around them.

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for software development as a member of a project team. He/she works closely with subject matter experts, business analysts, quality analysts, and others to design, develop, and test software solutions to business problems. He/she may be asked to lead and/or manage other developers when doing complex projects.
Key Responsibilities

• As a technical leader and/or contributor, solve problems of considerable scope and complexity, and mentor less senior developers with their work.
• Provide oversight as well as hands-on development, leading by example.
• Designing, coding (at least 70%), debugging and optimizing both frontend and backend components as well as internal tools, such as configuration management and development/test environments.
• Help select and incorporate new tools and methods
• Work closely with project, application, and enterprise architects to develop solutions.
• Provide project level architecture, if necessary.
• Drive the continuous evolution of best practices within the development team.
• Identify and recommend where increased automation, performance enhancements, application enhancementsandquality enhancements may be incorporated.
• Balance customer and businessneedsto design, develop, test, and deliver against timelines.
• Contribute to architecture and code design, estimates, code reviews, and documentation to ensure top quality software.
• Keeps current with emerging technologies and technological developments within the industry.
• Monitors and evaluates competitive applications and products.
• Reviews current practices relevant to the solution of assigned projects.
• Remains flexible and responsive to changing priorities and multiple, concurrent responsibilities.
• Be a talent multiplier that motivates the team around them to excel and perform well.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Hybrid Schedule: 3 days remote / 2 days in office
• 30-day notification period preferred 

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/MS in a relevant field (Computer Science, Engineering) or equivalent experience
• 8+ years in mobile application development experience
• 4 years of experience with Python
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle, Android Studio, IntelliJ
• Understanding of REST and GraphQL APIs, the document request model, and offline storage
• Experience with automated testing suites

Preferred Qualifications

• SQL and NoSQL database experience
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies
• Experience with education software
• Docker and Containerization experience, a plus.

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Kaplan is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All positions with Kaplan are paid at least $15 per hour or$31,200 per year for full-time positions.  Compensation for specific positions are based on job level, skills, years of experience, and education, among other factors.  Additionally, certain positions are bonus or commission eligible.  Information regarding benefits can be found here.

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