Staff Software Engineer

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Remote - Colombia

*ONLY CVs SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH WILL BE CONSIDERED*

The Opportunity:
Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. Our mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals.

We believe in the power of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. As we expand globally, we are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of not only our hiring practices but who we are as a company.

This role focuses on Blackboard Learn, a product in which we pride ourselves on creating well-designed web and mobile solutions to support learners, instructors, and administrators. Blackboard Learn allows learners and instructors to access online educational experiences wherever and whenever they want through web and mobile devices. Our technology helps instructors breathe life into educational content, brings efficiency to day-to-day tasks, and empowers instructors with tools to engage and assess every learner. We help motivate learners by promoting collaboration, communication, and connections with their peers and instructors.

Primary responsibilities will include:

- Researching and inventorying existing infrastructure, microservices, and technology used across all product teams
- Developing software engineering standards and guidelines to develop consistency across teams and drive to a common technology platform
- Interfacing with AWS on efficient adoption of the services they provide
- Researching emerging technologies from AWS and other SaaS providers and evaluating potential adoption
- Collaborating with teams on emerging software development needs and developing requirements and plans for the adoption of new services
- Aiding architects and development teams in the design of new services to ensure optimal use of infrastructure to deliver features
- Working closely with security team to ensure that security controls are implemented consistently across all infrastructure services
- Communicating architectural plans and changes to various stakeholders in the organization
- Creating technical documents for internal use as well as client-facing purposes

Required skills/qualifications:

- BS in Computer Science or equivalent
- At least 6 years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer with focus on infrastructure, enterprise software development, and/or in IT operations with at least 4 years in a senior engineering, architecture, or technical management role
- Strong experience of various infrastructure technologies like storage, networking, virtualization, and containerization
- Strong experience of infrastructure as code such as CDK Constructs, CloudFormation templates, Terraform, and configuration management like Chef/Ruby
- Experience operating infrastructure on public cloud providers like AWS or Azure
- Experience in developing standards in collaboration with stakeholders and driving adoption across organizations
- Strong oral and written communication skills, ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience providing technical leadership and guidance to a team of developers, mentoring and coaching them to foster their technical growth
- Ability to guide and participate in technical decisions
- Works to achieve operational targets with major impact on the departmental results
- Demonstrates technical innovation in supporting business objectives and mission
- Contributes to the development of goals for the department and planning efforts (budgets, operational plans, etc.)
- Quick learner with strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- May manage processes that span outside of immediate job area& works independently with limited supervision
- Fluency in written and spoken English at CEF B2 level or above

Preferred skills/qualifications:

- Exposure to TDD and XP practices
- 5-7 years of experience

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.

Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression,protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.