Senior Software Engineer - Platform

India based candidates only

The team would be responsible for building and owning foundational global platforms and services, their deployments including aspects such as compliance and security. They would also be owning and enabling integrations with the Percipio family of products, iterating on the needs of our enterprise customers and building compelling learning experiences along the way. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO 

• Leverage frontend and backend technologies to deliver new products and features to learners.  
• Architect efficient and reusable systems that drive complex web applications.  
• Collaborate closely with Curriculum, Data Science, DevOps and Product teams to build engaging experiences for our learners.  
• Be a champion for developing and adhering to engineering standards within the team. We want to build high-quality software that’s easy to understand, easy to change, and works the way it’s supposed to.  
• Put automated testing, tracking, and monitoring in place to ensure our website and integrations are always working as expected.  

WHAT YOU’LL NEED 

• A minimum of 4 years of experience developing frontend applications and backend distributed systems 
• Experience developing and maintaining APIs; comfortable with API design patterns (REST, RPC, GraphQL) 
• Experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases. We primarily use PostgreSQL and MongoDB 
• Experience with Golang and/or Ruby on Rails 
• Building and optimizing for performance and scalability 

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT 

• Excited about the opportunities and challenges of working on projects touching all areas of our codebase and associated microservices 
• Working experience in AWS and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform 
• Experience with containerization tools, such as Docker or Kubernetes 
• Experience of frontend frameworks like React and nextJS 
• You love teaching people to code as a mentor, volunteer, writer, or teacher 

Check out our Engineering Values matrix on our Github here. 

At Codecademy, we are committed to teaching people the skills they need to upgrade their careers. Codecademy aims to educate a richly diverse demographic of users with our product and in order to accomplish this, we believe our team should reflect that rich diversity. Our company celebrates diversity in all of its forms-- race, gender, color, national origin, marital status, sexuality, religion, veteran status, age, ability, disability status-- and works to create an inclusive workplace where people of all backgrounds and beliefs are empowered to better their futures.