Position Summary 

The Senior Software Engineer is a position of technical expertise, influence, and leadership in the technology realm. The position will be required to apply their expert knowledge to ensure best practices and well-engineered architecture across the department. They will also be a key stakeholder and initiator of major changes to processes, engineering practices, and system administration. This position will be required to work in a space of solving critical issues and initiatives across multiple teams. It will require an extensive and deep understanding of cutting-edge practices and innovative approaches to problems. Sr. Software Engineers are also tasked with establishing and maintaining a positive and productive culture.

 Essential Functions and Responsibilities: 

• Help in the building of cutting-edge applications and services to increase and improve the student experience 
• Exemplify a mastery of coding excellence and software quality, mentoring others and pioneering new standards and architectural foundations 
• Foster and utilize innovative approaches to problems and functionality for all key stakeholders
• Own technologies focusing on student success and scalability while supporting student-focused user experience 
• Collaborate with developers, designers, testing, and product management to develop features and innovative approaches to applications and features 
•  Establish a balance between strategic planning and initiatives with development, communication, troubleshooting, and problem solving 
• Lead in the prototyping and development of new technology and framework, improving the student experience 
• Identify system redundancies and inefficiencies, proposing innovative and cost-effective solutions 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work equally well in self-managed and team-based Agile projects. 
• Work with internal customers to gather business processes and project requirements 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience
• 5 years’ experience in software development, pioneering new approaches and implementing new technologies 
• 3 years software development using Python 
• Architecting, implementing, and managing microservices with an emphasis on interservice communication and API design 
• AWS operational experience 
• Agile Scrum environment experience 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• oAuth 2 + OIDC 
• 1 year experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• SAML 
• Cloud Environment experience 
• Ping Identity (PingFederate PingAccess) 
• Sailpoint IdentityIQ
• Okta 
• LDAP / Active Directory 
• AWS Single Sign-On 
• AWS Cognito 
• Test Automation: pytest 
• 1 associate level cert and 1 professional cert – AWS or Python preferred 
• Experience with other software tools and/or languages IE: Java, Tomcat, git, and GitHub; Spring, Spring Boot