Senior Software Engineer

Degreed is the upskilling platform that empowers growth and innovation through lifelong learning. We integrate everything people use to learn and build their careers—skill insights, LMSs, courses, videos, articles, and projects—and match everyone to growth opportunities that fit their unique skills, roles, and goals. Degreed enables employers to create a dynamic culture of learning to attract, grow and retain talent, drive individual development, and deliver business results. 

The Integrations team at Degreed is looking for an experienced Backend Developer who is excited about architecting and implementing scalable systems to join our team. In this position you will provide technical leadership to Engineers and work with the Product Manager and Engineering Manager to implement reliable, robust and scalable solutions for external integrations as well add new features, fix bugs, and drive the Degreed product forward. We value individuals who are lifelong learners and passionate about taking new challenges with a continuous improvement mindset.

The ideal candidate for this role will be based remotely in the US as a member of a distributed team.

• Provide technical leadership to the team with design, architecture and estimation. Own end-to-end implementation of new integrations and/or enhancements to existing integrations
• Work with the Product Manager and the team in planning and elaborating technical stories for sprint releases
• Participate in troubleshooting production issues and work with the team to continuously evaluate and improve the quality, reliability and scalability of the Integrations platform
• Conduct research, build proof-of-concepts, and lead architecture/design discussions
• Continuously evaluate and recommend improvements to existing engineering processes including deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Build relationships with architects, business owners and other stakeholders across Degreed and influence technology decisions based on data

There are only a handful of folks who meet all qualifications. We care more about hiring engineers that have a track record of shipping impactful, quality software than checking all of the boxes. So whether you meet all the qualifications or a partial set, we want to hear from you

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of software development experience with C#/.NET
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
• 8+ years of demonstrated software engineering experience in an agile environment designing, architecting and implementing robust distributed/scalable systems preferably for a modern SaaS application
• 3+ years of technical leadership experience
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, technical and non-technical.
• Ability and willingness to mentor other engineers.
• Solution-driven with the ability to understand the big picture
• Lifelong learner and passionate about discovering new things and taking on new challenges.

• Advanced degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
• 2+ years of experience providing technical leadership to a US based remote, distributed team
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud platform
• Experience with SQL and Angular
• Experience with Databricks and/or Snowflake
• Experience with Containers and Serverless architecture
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services