Senior Software Engineer at Benchmark

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.

• 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.

• 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, with preferred expertise in more than one:
  Java, ES6 JavaScript, or PHP
  7.x.
• Ability to work in a collaborative agile environment.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.

• Understanding of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, configuration management, quality assurance, and release management.
• Experience with JavaScript and Web Development: 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.
• Experience with frameworks such as React, Redux, Backbone, or VueJS.
• Data visualization packages such as D3.
• Experience with SQL and No
  
  SQL data stores such as MySQL and Mongo
  
  DB.
• Familiarity with basic design patterns and UML.
• Familiarity with PHP
  7.x, Laravel, and PHPUnit.
• Familiarity with Spring projects for Java.
• Experience with AWS technologies: RDS (Aurora), Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, Red Shift, EC2, SQS, SNS, Cloud Watch, S3, or Cloud Front.
• Experience with 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.

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