What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Developer position at n2y?
At n2y, we are the leader in the Special Education market. We help teachers and students both academically and behaviorally. If you want to help make a difference in shaping the future of education in a fun, fast-paced, supportive culture, come join us! We aim to build resources and solutions in which all learners see themselves represented, and doing this well requires people who care about the educators, students, and families we serve. As a rapidly growing company, we are also always looking for different approaches and unique perspectives to fulfill our potential.
You would be joining n2y at a very exciting time. Continuing to build on our success, we are looking to further innovate for impact to our end users. We are combining our deep in-house expertise with in-depth user research to rethink the classroom experience. You can help us figure out how to effectively bring together offline and online user experiences and technologies such as GenAI, machine learning, and predictive analytics to innovate in the classroom.
About the role
As a Senior Software Developer, your experience and leadership will help guide your team to continue to evolve in all aspects of technical and delivery excellence. You will lead and mentor across multiple workstreams supporting your team’s delivery commitments as well as the technical stack and end to end software development lifecycle, including devops. You will work cross-functionally with Product and Design peers to collaborate on your team’s technical and product roadmaps and decision-making in bringing the best products and user experiences to life.
If you are a great software developer with extensive experience and are passionate about technology, people, and thoughtfully crafted products, we'd love to talk to you.
Key Responsibilities
- Focus on building well-architected software with high product quality that meets the end user’s needs effectively
- Lead workstreams and drive toward meeting sprint goals and delivery commitments
- Deeply understand the product domain, product roadmap, and delivery objectives in order to help the team deliver the right solutions effectively
- Represent the user’s best interests when collaborating with product and design partners in order to arrive at the best functional and technical solution
- Lead other developers by example across technical and non-technical behaviors and goals
- Foster good Agile practices, encouraging effective estimation, delivery, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Foster collaboration across roles and disciplines and help the team resolve challenges through healthy, constructive debates
- Support team growth through mentorship, guidance, and coaching of junior team members
- Solve complex problems without overly complex solutions
- Help ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility, and other best practices
- Foster a positive, collaborative, and empathetic culture that empowers team members to grow and succeed
- Operate in a rapidly evolving environment, adapting and prioritizing as needed to ensure success
- Be business-minded and product-oriented, maintaining a focus on delivering outstanding products
Qualifications
- 7 years of software development and design experience in an Enterprise or equivalent environment, with a background in .Net-based solutions and Azure cloud services
- Excellent programming and software architecture skills
- Ownership mindset, self-motivated and self-driven
- Continuous improvement mindset with a passion for continuous learning
- Analytical, problem-solving attitude
- Strong knowledge of C# .Net
- Strong knowledge of SQL and Microsoft SQL Server
- Experience designing, building, testing and supporting scalable applications with n-tier architecture
- In-depth knowledge of API development and best practices
- In-depth knowledge of Blazor or React
- A history of mentoring and coaching junior engineers, fostering their technical and non-technical growth
- Knowledge of front end technologies HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript
- Sound knowledge of CI/CD practices
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Must be able to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences in a clear way
