Senior Software Engineer - Stronger Consulting

Achievement Network (ANet) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping all students achieve strong educational outcomes. We partner with school and system leaders to strengthen teaching and learning through the strategic use of assessments, coaching, and tools that drive meaningful results. Individuals who join ANet become part of a dynamic, mission-driven, and collaborative organization focused on making a lasting impact in schools. We are committed to supporting one another and growing together as a team.

OPPORTUNITY

The Senior Software Engineer will help the Engineering Team build products that teachers and school leaders use to help shape excellent instruction for students. Reporting to the Vice President of Engineering, the Senior Software Engineer will apply modern development technologies and best practices to deliver high-quality software systems and solve technical challenges.

TRAVEL

Up to 2-3 times a year

RESPONSIBILITIES

Implement ANet’s next generation of technology products that support data-driven educational practices

• Design, develop, test, and maintain a robust and scalable data lake solution, RESTful back-end services, and, occasionally, web applications that provide ANet’s educational partners with insights that boost student learning
• Engage in technical design and code reviews, embracing and promoting best practices to document and deliver a high- quality software system that scales
• Monitor and troubleshoot production data pipelines, proactively address issues, performance bottlenecks, and system failures
• Contribute to the evolution of our data infrastructure, recommending and implementing solutions to improve testability, maintainability, scalability, and efficiency
• Join product managers and business analysts to understand available data and translate user stories into reporting platform capabilities
• Collaborate and integrate with third-party data providers to ingest and share data using established, sustainable patterns adopted by the team
• Keep abreast of new technologies and propose adoption as appropriate

REQUIREMENTS & COMPETENCIES

In order to be successful in this role, candidates must demonstrate the following:

• Expertise in area of focus:
• 6+ years of experience delivering high quality software solutions in enterprise environments
• 3+ years of recent, hands-on experience designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining production software utilizing
• Java 17+, Spring Boot 3+, data modeling skills, and SQL for microservice development
• Modern data warehousing, data lake, ELT/ETL design patterns, and PySpark for data pipeline development
• Cloud platforms and infrastructure deployment tools (AWS and Cloud Formation preferred)
• CI/CD automation pipelines
• Scrum or