Senior/Software Engineer (full-stack)

at  ITHAKA

ITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services — Artstor, JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R — enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome historical barriers to education. In carrying out our mission, as employees we feel a deep responsibility to each other and our well-being, and are committed to building and sustaining a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.

THE ROLE

As a full-stack Senior/Software Engineer at ITHAKA, you have an opportunity to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission. You will work on high-impact products that help put education within everyone’s reach. In this role you will:

• Have the freedom to leverage the right tools and languages to solve problems. Right now, we use technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Java, and GitHub/GitLab.
• Develop and deploy software through an automated continuous delivery pipeline supporting over 200 production deployments a week.
• See the impact of your work as it is put in front of millions of users.
• Contribute to open source! We give back to the community whenever we can.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate as an empowered member of a collaborative Agile team to design, develop, and maintain high performance applications.
• Leverage continuous deployment and test automation tools to deploy application changes to production multiple times per day.
• Interact with internal and external customers to understand their needs and drive the development of web applications to meet those needs.
• Implement rich, interactive web applications using the latest technologies, frameworks, and patterns.
• Leverage web analytics to support Product Discovery and to measure project KPIs.
• Test, measure, and optimize performance using Application Performance Management tools.
• Participate in the on-call rotation as a first point of contact for applications you own.
• Demonstrate leadership skills in mentoring team members and articulating and evangelizing new technologies, methodologies, and processes.
• Participate in analysis of pricing, risk/reward, cost advantages, and resourcing to support technological improvements.