HOMER is looking for an exceptional Backend Software Engineer to join our energetic, growing team. You will have a profound impact on a company that touches the lives of children, parents, and teachers across the globe with one of the most celebrated reading and learn-to-read platforms in the industry.
HOMER is a venture-backed, high-growth business that offers competitive compensation including equity and full benefits in a creative, flexible environment that invests in professional development.
As the Senior Software Engineer, you will be a key member of our engineering team, building the back end services and infrastructure team essential to our growing business.
Our backend technology stack includes the following:
- Node. Js as the main programming language
- Python for handling long running internal processes
- Applications are hosted in AWS
- We use GIT for source control
About you:
- You should be enthusiastic about learning and applying new cutting edge technologies.
- You take ownership of your own work.
- You have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and are able to convey a very technical situation to less technical colleagues.
- You are pragmatic, able to determine when and why it is the right call to take a step back and refactor old code versus putting together a quick fix.
In this role, you will:
- Develop and maintain key internal and public-facing back end systems
- Design redundant and scalable architectures for high performance web and mobile delivery
- Engineer simple and elegant solutions to challenging problems
- Design and engineer secure RESTful APIs
- Estimate and track tasks using Agile methodologies
- Plan and lead major projects from start to finish
You have experience in:
- Proficiency in Nodejs
- Proficiency in at least one other programming language
- Experience in relational and non-relational databases
- Experience in unit testing and end-to-end testing
- Good knowledge of continuous delivery
- Good knowledge of software fundamentals design/architectural patterns. Experience with MVC frameworks
Over time, we expect you to grow by learning and practicing the following skills:
- Technical ownership
- Promoting best practices in coding and architecture
- Collaborating with and mentoring other members of the engineering team through code reviews and paired programming
- Becoming a vocal advocate of our engineering forward culture
Bonus Points
- Good knowledge of HTML/CSS
- Good knowledge of Amazon Web Services
- Good knowledge of authentication, encryption and security techniques
- Experience building CMS and reporting systems
- Experience developing apps with Ed Tech industry standards. (e.g., Ex: PCI and COPPA compliance)
- Experience in a startup environment
