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 barriers to education. In carrying out our mission, as employees we feel a deep responsibility to members of our community and to each other, and we are committed to building and sustaining a culture where everyone can thrive.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We’re looking for a skilled developer to join our team at ITHAKA! While we don’t expect you to check every requirement below, we’re seeking someone with experience in our core tech stack: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, and Angular. Beyond that, we value a mix of skills in areas like cloud technologies, CI/CD, microservices, and database management.

• 2 or more years of experience as a full-stack software engineer building large-scale web applications.
• 2 or more years of experience designing and implementing backend applications using Java, Spring, Sprint Boot, JPA, Hibernate, RDBMS, etc.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent is preferred.
• Experience creating and operating user-facing applications using Angular framework.
• Demonstrated excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work well in a small-team environment.
• Experience in service-based architectures including web-services, service-discovery (Eureka).
• Experience using a decentralized version control system like Git in a collaborative context on a platform like GitHub.
• Knowledge of full web technology stack (e.g., HTTP, cookies, headers, caching, CDN, and security).
• Experience with Linux, shell scripting, or other scripting languages.
• Familiarity with unit testing (JUnit).
• Knowledge of ELK stack, MongoDB, Kafka.
• Knowledge of XML parsing and transformation using XSLT.

THE ROLE

Under the direction of the Director of Software Engineering, the Software Engineer will work as part of the Content Harvesting Archiving, Management, and Processing Services (CHAMPS) team to design, develop, enhance, and maintain software/applications that support content management operations for ITHAKA. In this role, you will join a highly collaborative team that is passionate about technology and the challenges of large-scale content and data management, and that is driven to develop lasting and affordable solutions to operations teams and users. In this role, you will collaborate with the Product, Content Operations, and Publisher Relationship teams.
As a software engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on high-performing, high-throughput, multi-threaded applications. You will need very good strong problem-solving and debugging skills to successfully diagnose problems and come up with strategies to solve them. You will be part of a self-organizing team where the architecture and design of system enhancements are collectively determined and are implemented along with QA engineers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate as an empowered member of a collaborative Agile team to design, develop, and maintain high-performance applications.
• 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.
• Perform analysis and improve system performance and throughput.
• Identify bottlenecks, problems, and come up with strategies to resolve them.
• Participate in the on-call rotation as a first point of contact for applications you own.