Principal Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails

About the position

At Imagine Learning we empower potential by creating educational solutions that inspire boundless possibilities for every student, every day. We are passionate about innovating together to support educators in creating those special moments when students experience the joy of learning at its best. As a Principal Software Engineer of the Product and Enterprise Operations team, you will lead the solution architecture, engineering direction, and engineering capability of our core curriculum platform. You will define and integrate the architectural roadmap with broader, next-generation enterprise platform services to consistently deliver high-quality software. You will use your leadership and communication skills to collaborate with engineering and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop full-stack software to add impactful new features for teachers, students, parents, and administrative users.
• Identify, prioritize, and execute tasks in the software development life cycle.
• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code, and provide helpful guidance to others on how to do the same during peer reviews.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.
• Review and debug code, and write unit, functional, and integration tests.
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, product, UX, and other internal teams and vendors to fix and improve products.
• Document development phases and monitor systems.
• Ensure software is up to date with the latest technologies.
• Ship features often to production with little to no issues.
• Scale our applications as our user base grows, and break large projects down into smaller, easier to ship features.
• Frame the problems in ways that help the team and company clarify goals and approaches.
• Open up new approaches and ways of thinking and opportunities that contribute to our collective mission.
• Self-managed; doesn't require management or significant direct involvement of others to move personal responsibilities forward.
• Initiate and bring to a close, scope-cutting conversations as work progresses to land on a minimum viable product.
• Help others faced with technical hurdles and help onboard new employees.
• Understand and effectively communicate the impact that new decisions and technical hurdles have on work duration.
• Other duties as required.

Requirements

• 8+ years of related experience with a bachelor's degree or 6+ years with a Master's degree or 5+ years with a PhD.
• Must have hands-on coding experience. Percentage of coding done by this role: 80%.
• Ability to innovate and evaluate at a senior level; thinks strategically across one or more technologies.
• Capable of high level strategic architectural planning and goal setting.
• Strong technology leader in two or more domains; working knowledge of all enterprise domains.
• Experience designing and creating Restful Services.
• Experience in designing and building solutions using Microservices Architecture & Event Driven Architecture.
• Strong understanding and experience with Amazon Web Services or other cloud providers.
• Track record of successful platform and architecture transformation initiatives.
• Mastery with Ruby on Rails and proficient in other languages and frameworks such as Vue.js.
• Drive continuous improvement across architecture, engineering, and quality.
• Effective communicator to non-technologists and Product teams; makes technical issues readily understandable to general audiences.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Promote Product and Enterprise Operations culture and values.

Benefits

• Multiple health, dental, and vision plans, including medical plans with zero employee premiums.
• 401k plan with a company match.
• 16 paid holidays, which include 2 floating holidays and a winter shutdown from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day.
• Paid Time Off.
• Comprehensive maternity and fertility/family building benefits.
• Paid bonding leave when a new child joins your family.
• Access to on-demand mental health resources.
• Life and short and long-term disability insurance.
• Pre-tax savings plans.
• Paid volunteer time off.
• A wide variety of professional development programs, including tuition reimbursement.
• Work from home opportunities that foster work/life balance.