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Impact the Moment

We're looking for people who like problem solving, exhibit independent creativity, and function cooperatively on a team. As a Lead Software Engineer at McGraw Hill, you have a sense of personal accountability, a curiosity to research new technologies and methodologies, and a pervasive desire to dig into complex issues while respecting timelines and team commitments. By building the next set of platform capabilities and a wealth of interactive and engaging digital resources, you will support instruction for our newest programs and products at McGraw Hill.

Your impact on team:

At McGraw Hill, a team's engineers look up to, admire, and trust their lead. Leads contribute directly to the codebase and mentor other team members. They have a strong desire and motivation to grow the individuals on their team and the team. Leads are opinionated and back up their opinions with data and experience. Leads are advocates for their team members and have as much interest on individual successes on the team as they do of the team's success. Leads build trust by fostering a welcome, supportive, and humble environment, not through dictation, arrogance, or brute force.

We believe leads function best when they can focus on their team and technology and not be burdened with "traditional" management responsibilities, so our leads do not have direct reports. We foster career growth, so if it turns out you want to manage people, we can make it work!

As your hands-on contributions, you will build front-end web interfaces and back-end application code and APIs across our portfolio. This is a "full stack" role, so we are looking for people with experience in both front-end and back-end modern web development.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

What You'll Do:

• Work with a team of individual contributors to build our web applications (front-end and back-end). This will include building new applications, making major product updates and maintaining existing applications.
• Lead and influence a distributed team to solve problems quickly and collaboratively.
• Mentor junior engineers to help grow their professional careers.
• Work with leadership, product, SRE and others to plan systems and solutions.
• Collaborate with your partner product and program leaders to push projects forward by removing obstacles, think beyond the MVP and clearly communicate to stakeholders and team members.
• Contribute to CI/CD, customer support and production support processes.

We have a very diverse stack that can vary across teams and projects. Some of the technologies we use include:

• Back-end: Node.js, Java, Go (most common), PHP
• Front-end: React, TypeScript, Angular, NgRx/RxJS, and Playwright
• CI/CD and Infrastructure: CircleCI, Sonarqube, Docker, Kubernetes, Github and NewRelic
• Amazon Web Services (AWS): ECS, RDS, Lambda, and many other services
• Collaboration: JIRA, Confluence, Zoom, Slack, and Office 365
• Databases: Relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL; NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB

About You:

• Proficiency in at least one of the above back-end technologies
• Proficiency in at least one of the above front-end technologies
• Proficiency in at least one of the above databases
• Experience with AWS, Docker is preferred.
• Experience influencing engineers in large, matrixed organizations is preferred.

Why McGraw Hill?

• We firmly believe in the mission of educating students and helping them succeed.
• Our teams operate in a collaborative and safe environment where everyone's input is valued, trusted, and respected. We want to know what you think; we don't want "feature farms!"
• You'll have opportunity for horizontal and vertical movement and growth throughout the organization, including clear career paths for your long term personal and professional growth. We hire good people rather than filling team vacancies or checking boxes for technical skillsets.
• We have a mindset of "deliver value, not features": we produce meaningful products and services for our students, teachers, administrators, and others that further our educational mission rather than focus on just executing a JIRA ticket number; we "see the forest, not the trees"

The pay range for this position is between $130,000 - $170,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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McGraw Hill is an equal opportunity employer. McGraw Hill is committed to celebrating and supporting the differences that make us each unique and will not discriminate based on a person's gender, gender identity or expression, nationality, color, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, appearance or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, and we will also provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

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