Software Engineer I

Overview

­McGraw Hill is a learning science company that delivers personalized learning experiences that help students, parents, educators, and professionals drive results. You can be a part of a strong, dedicated engineering team that makes a real difference in people’s lives every day! **

What are we looking for?**

We’re looking for engineers who like problem solving, exhibit independent creativity, and function cooperatively on a team. As a team member at McGraw Hill, you have a sense of personal accountability, a curiosity to research new technologies and methodologies, and a pervasive desire to dig into complex issues while respecting timelines and team commitments. By building the next set of platform capabilities and a wealth of interactive and engaging digital resources, you will support instruction for our newest programs and products at McGraw Hill. **

How can you make an impact?**

Engineers in this role will build front-end web interfaces and back-end application code and APIs across our portfolio. This is a “full stack” role, so we are looking for people with experience in both front-end and back-end modern web development. **

What You’ll Do:**

• Make major hands-on contributions to our web applications, including building entirely new applications, making major product updates, and maintaining our existing portfolio. Our products at McGraw Hill are used by millions of people every day. Some have an SLA of 99.99% uptime; stability and quality solutions are key!
• Work with product, engineering, SRE, and other leadership to understand how your solutions will be planned, developed, implemented, and supported.
• Contribute to CI/CD processes to allow for smoother releases and increasing team confidence.
• Use your interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate effectively with product sponsors and senior leadership in engineering and the greater business
• Understand the business requirements of products, tasks, and stores, and if you identify possible gaps, ambiguities, missing scenarios, opportunities, etc., raise them with the team and with leadership so we can all improve them.
• Work with a distributed team to solve problems quickly and collaboratively
• Consider the full lifecycle of solutions when building them from initial conception to launch then maintenance all the way to sunsetting

About You:

• You have at least one year of expertise developing both front-ends and back-ends of modern web applications. Aligning with our stack (described further in this posting) is nice, but diversity of experience is better.
• You build front-ends with the needs of our users in mind, partnering with our UX team members to build the best experiences for our teachers, students, and other personas.
• You are aware of, and ideally have built interfaces around, the needs of accessible designs in all steps of the engineering process for those with visual, auditory, sensory, cognitive, and other considerations.
• You design APIs that are meant to be consumed by others, so ease of use, simplistic design, and other attributes that benefit interoperability are key.
• You believe in understanding why work is being done and empathizing with the users, not just implementing code and moving onto the next task.
• You are eager to learn. When you lack experience in something, you have an innate curiosity and desire to learn it.
• You can work in a fast-paced software release environment, where you continuously deliver production-grade (near-zero downtime, fault-tolerant, etc.) software daily for a system with millions of users around the world. Our users want systems that “just work” and are mission critical. Teachers are busy and don’t have time to tinker with a system to make it work!
• You have contributed to, or are familiar with the needs of, the full software development life cycle, including writing application code, unit/integration/automation tests, documentation, and performance and security engineering.

We have a very diverse stack that can vary across teams and projects. Some of the technologies we use include:

• Back-end: Go (most common), Java, Node.js, PHP
• Front-end: TypeScript, Angular, NgRx/RxJS, and Playwright
• CI/CD and Infrastructure: CircleCI, Sonarqube, Docker, Kubernetes, Github and NewRelic
• Amazon Web Services (AWS): ECS, RDS, Lambda, and many other services
• Collaboration: JIRA, Confluence, Zoom, Slack, and Office 365
• Databases: Relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL; NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB

Why McGraw Hill?

The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively designing content that will build the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights.

The pay range for this position is between $65,800 to $117,810 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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