Staff Software Engineer - Boston Massachusetts

Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Posted On: 05/03/2025

Press Tab to Move to Skip to Content LinkSelect how often (in days) to receive an alert: Create AlertJob Title: Staff Software Engineer (Boston , MA)Location: 125 High Street, Suite 900, Boston, MA 02110 (Full-time)Who We AreHMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators, and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K-12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students' potential and extend teachers' capabilities. HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries.What You'll DoWorking as a Full Stack Staff Software Engineer in a cross-functional team alongside other Engineers, Designers, and Quality Engineers, within an agile development environment, across multiple platforms.Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing and developing strategic solutions, services and functionalities that are scalable and performant for client-facing platform applications supporting multiple partners.
• Strive for high-quality services, continuously look for ways to improve team productivity and product reliability, performance, and security.
• Responsible for leading the development of high availability and redundant applications deployed in a multi-tier clustered environment.
• Decompose business objectives into valuable, incrementally releasable user features accurately estimating the effort to complete each.
• Work collaboratively within a cross-functional, agile development team to solve problems, deliver incrementally, transfer knowledge and contribute to overall product architecture.
• Oversee the work of a team of junior, mid-level and senior developers.
• Coordinate and prioritize tasks.
• Work closely with the leadership team to support the delivery of new services and functionality.
• May telecommute from any location in the US.What You'll NeedPosition Requirements: Master's degree (or foreign equivalent degree) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or closely related technical field, plus 3 years of experience in a software development-related occupation with experience in full stack development.In the alternative, employer will accept a Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent degree) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or closely related technical field, plus 5 years of experience as described.Experience may be gained concurrently and must include the following:
  • 3 years of experience with Agile software development methodologies.
  • 3 years of experience in developing Web Applications.
  • 3 years of experience in J2EE and core Java (v12+).
  • 3 years of experience with Spring Boot and Spring MVC.
  • 3 years of experience developing with modern JS frameworks (e.g. React, Redux, Polymer, Vue, Angular, Node.js), and understanding of their capabilities and appropriate application.
  • 3 years of DDL and DML experience in Postgres.
  • 3 years of experience developing in Microservices based architectures.
  • 3 years of experience in developing robust, secure and scalable APIs.
  • 1 year of experience in cloud-based architecture and serverless Computing (using Python, NodeJS and AWS services like S3, Lambda, RDS and API gateway).* This position is part of HMH Education Company's employee referral program and is eligible for an employee referral incentive bonus.HMH is fully committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting, retaining, developing and promoting the most qualified employees without regard to race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, pregnancy, gender identity, ethnic/national origin, ancestry, age, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, citizenship status, status as a disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran, other covered veteran, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. We are dedicated to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment, and where employees are treated with respect and dignity. We actively participate in E-Verify.
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