Principal Software Engineer - Stride, Inc.
Des Moines, IA
About the Job
Job Description
The Principal Software Engineer will be primarily responsible for Design, Architect, Code and Lead technical strategy and efforts for a broader or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that have a na impact on Stride's premiere online learning platform, OLS, where our students go to school every day.
Principal Software Engineer is expected to work closely with architects and technical product managers to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed and implemented software components. Take ownership of the implementation of individual software components, with high emphasis on quality, test-driven development, and sound software engineering practices - using software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all the team deliverables.
Over 20 years ago, Stride was founded to provide personalized learning - powered by technology. We reached students where they were in their own journeys. We knocked down their barriers to great education. And we gave every learner equal opportunity to succeed - however they defined success. Stride innovated the learning experience with online and blended learning that prepared them for their lives ahead.
Stride is a community of passionate leaders. Whether teachers, engineers, curriculum writers, or financial managers - whatever your expertise or role, we all work to empower futures through learning. And changing the trajectory of learning itself is one of our greatest missions. Join us in developing more effective ways to learn and helping learners build the skills and confidence they need to make their way forward in life.
The Principal Software Engineer is expected to work closely with architects and technical product managers to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed and implemented software components. Take ownership of the implementation of individual software components, with high emphasis on quality, test-driven development, and sound software engineering practices - using software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all the team deliverables.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS :
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
The Principal Software Engineer will be primarily responsible for Design, Architect, Code and Lead technical strategy and efforts for a broader or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that have a na impact on Stride's premiere online learning platform, OLS, where our students go to school every day.
Principal Software Engineer is expected to work closely with architects and technical product managers to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed and implemented software components. Take ownership of the implementation of individual software components, with high emphasis on quality, test-driven development, and sound software engineering practices - using software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all the team deliverables.
Over 20 years ago, Stride was founded to provide personalized learning - powered by technology. We reached students where they were in their own journeys. We knocked down their barriers to great education. And we gave every learner equal opportunity to succeed - however they defined success. Stride innovated the learning experience with online and blended learning that prepared them for their lives ahead.
Stride is a community of passionate leaders. Whether teachers, engineers, curriculum writers, or financial managers - whatever your expertise or role, we all work to empower futures through learning. And changing the trajectory of learning itself is one of our greatest missions. Join us in developing more effective ways to learn and helping learners build the skills and confidence they need to make their way forward in life.
The Principal Software Engineer is expected to work closely with architects and technical product managers to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed and implemented software components. Take ownership of the implementation of individual software components, with high emphasis on quality, test-driven development, and sound software engineering practices - using software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all the team deliverables.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- Responsible for leading development activities for Stride Tutoring B2B and B2C applications across Strides eCommerce platforms for web and mobile apps;
- Work with business stakeholders and product owners to review business drivers, needs, and strategies to anticipate future business / technology needs;
- Define and maintain an application architectural vision that addresses security, reliability, performance, monitoring/operations, deployment/DevOps, testability, and other critical technical considerations in addition to meeting the functional requirements;
- Participate in development of high-level estimates of cost and duration of initiatives to enable management to make informed decisions regarding the business case for the work;
- Work with Product Management, User Experience, and Engineering management to define a technical roadmap that breaks complex, long-term development efforts down into a logical sequence of manageable phases;
- Develop web applications and RESTful APIs using 12-factor application principles;
- Estimate and own feature-level work effort for input to project planning;
- Ensure that engineering teams working on your application fully understand the Business/Application vision and how their work relates to other Stride systems in order to enable them to make better decisions;
- Foster technical innovation, including conducting prototypes and proofs-of-concept as necessary to evaluate potential solutions and/or new technologies.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS :
- Eight (8) years of software engineering experience, including responsibility for application architecture across multiple systems & environments.
- Five (5) years of experience with development and solutioning on AWS
- Five (5) years of experience with Java, JavaScript, Node.js, JSON, React, and SQL/NoSQL
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- BS or MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Familiarity with any of the following languages and technologies is a plus:
- Spring, Angular, Tomcat, Apache, and other open-source libraries/frameworks
- Unit testing, including frameworks such as Junit
Source : Stride, Inc.
