Senior Developer

Founded in 2012 and recently named one of the nation’s fastest-growing private businesses by Inc.

Magazine, Red Shelf is a Chicago-based EdTech company helping to make education both more affordable and more effective by replacing yesterday’s pricey print publications with today’s more dynamic yet far less expensive digital content. Partnering with more than 400+ publishers and 640+ campuses nationwide, we offer leading-edge digital course materials and a seamless, end-to-end Content Delivery System for effectively distributing those materials.

Job Summary:

The Senior Developer is responsible for building products that achieve Red Shelf’s business goals, educating others in your area of expertise, and growing your knowledge of software development best practices.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Support your team in delivering well-written, well-tested code to complete new features or address issues in the product
• Collaborate across Engineering on the design, implementation, testing, and review of new features and fixes
• Review code and contribute feedback to improve the quality, readability, and testability of the code base across Engineering
• Possess a deep understanding of Red Shelf’s products and business which you can translate into tech
• Advocate paying down technical debt and use development approaches that minimize the growth of new technical debt
• Architect, design, develop, deploy, and operate services that serve hundreds of thousands of users
• Be a leader in Red Shelf's developer community
• Implement the vision and long-term strategy in your domain of expertise
• Spread learning across Engineering
• Ensure that customer-facing UX is accessible for all supported devices and user accessibility needs (WCAG 2.0, Section 508, ADA, etc.)
• Use the Agile Scrum process to experiment and improve on software development practices on the team

Requirements:

• 6+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years of experience maintaining the front-end and back-end of a complex, product-focused codebase
• Experience publishing and consuming APIs
• Proven track record of building successful full-stack applications, products or platforms
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills

Other Desirable Skills/

Experience:

• Experience with Python and frameworks like Django is a plus
• Experience building ADA-compliant or WCAG 2.0-compliant interfaces
• Knowledge and appreciation of the advances in higher educational software, course materials, and digital publishing is a plus
• Background and/or experience in educational technology and/or publishing
• Comfort and/or experience in a startup environment