Description

Sr Software Engineer , Server-Side focused - 6-12 month contract

About this role....

A Sr Software Engineer is a lead role , with expectations to grow and sustain NWEA's positive, high energy technology company culture. The Sr Software Engineer creates high-quality craftsmanship-level software for NWEA clients and internal users and is expected to be experts in the software languages used or required by NWEA.

This includes meeting all requirements/ specifications, testing/QA requirements, methodologies and other NWEA software/product requirements. This position must be adaptable to changing technology environments and work collaboratively with all participants in a software development project.

The Sr Software Engineer may be called upon to fulfill functions related to software development that are not specifically software programming, such as requirements gathering, producing documentation, quality assurance testing, mentoring other developers, and leading projects.

Must Haves...

• Experience with Server-side development using Node .JS
• Experience working in a TDD environment , where unit testing is standard practice.
• Comfortable working in a full-stack development environment.
• Experience developing Client-side (React /Angular ) JavaScript is a plus

Traits for success...

• Excellent object-orient ed design & programming skills
• Experience working in a collaborative team of application developers and source code repositories
• Willingness to take ownership of a project and show your leadership skills

Education and experience...

• 4 - 7 plus years of progressive experience in a software development environment in high growth technology companies
• Proven experience working across multiple tiers of an application, including a database, network, operating system, and containers.
• Experience with AWS is a plus.

About the Product Engineering Team ....

Comprised of nearly 200 professional s , NWEA's Product Engineering team offers our employees the ability to work with cutting-edge technologies, on a platform that has one of the highest concurrency applications in the Portland Metro area, that assesses nearly 10 mill ion students annually across the world.

Our Product Engineering group is made up of large-scale teams focused across many tech fields like infrastructure, applications engineering, business analysis, operations, QA, and solutions delivery.

About u s....

Founded by ed ucators nearly 40 years ago, NWEA™ is a global not-for-profit educational services organization known for our flagship interim assessment, Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®).

More than 7,400 partners in U.S. schools, districts, education agencies, and international schools trust us to offer pre-kindergarten through grade 12 assessments that accurately measure student growth and learning needs, professional development that fosters educators' ability to accelerate student learning, and research that supports assessment validity and data interpretation.

What we can offer you....

At NWEA we not only offer competitive pay, a 15% contribution of eligible employees' base salary to a defined contribution 403(b) retirement savings plan, career development opportunities and an awesome culture, we also offer industry leading benefits and perks that are focused on supporting our employees' holistic wellbeing. To learn more about what we can offer more, click here .

What's it really like to work at NWEA....

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