Senior Software Engineer - Python, Flask

Join Our Team as a Senior Software Engineer

Discovery Education is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic Product Development SCRUM team. In this role, you will be instrumental in supporting existing products and driving the development of new features and products. You will work closely with your team to enhance, maintain, secure, and optimize our applications, ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Code Development: Engage in hands-on coding daily, contributing to production releases multiple times a month.
• Design and Maintenance: Design, build, and maintain our high-volume global education services.
• Collaboration: Work closely with your SCRUM team, providing estimates, performing analysis, and writing code.
• DevOps Culture: Participate in our DevOps culture by supporting and maintaining both code and the infrastructure-as-code.
• Code Review and Architecture: Contribute to the broader engineering team’s code review and architecture.
• Documentation and Standards: Continually improve our documentation and standards.
• Feature Implementation: Implement new product features and enhance existing functionality.
• Scalability and Quality: Ensure the scalability and quality of all code.
• Process Improvement: Continually improve our development process, documentation, and standards.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with stakeholders and teammates on the design and architecture of web applications.

Core Competencies

• Communication Skills: Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving, design, development, and debugging skills.
• Self-Starter: Ability to manage/prioritize multiple tasks and work independently.
• Object-Oriented Design: Expert understanding of object-oriented design and programming.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience: 5+ years of production back-end development experience.
• Technical Skills: Extensive experience with Python and Flask in a large production environment. Experience with SQL (MS SQL Server), MongoDB, Redis, and similar databases.
• Bonus Skills: Experience with Web Security, Kubernetes, Docker, MS SQL Server, i18n, ML and NLP, front-end development with VueJS, Elastic Search, Memcached, AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3), Terraform, LTI, SCORM, LMS Interoperability, build systems and automation, flask babel or gettext, oAuth, and supporting multiple 3rd party authentication methods.

Why Join Discovery Education?

At Discovery Education, we believe in empowering each team member to cultivate high-performing, highly engaged teams. We offer a robust and comprehensive insurance package, career development opportunities, and a supportive work environment that encourages growth and innovation.

Benefits

• Career Development: Be the driver of your success with continuing education and tuition reimbursement programs.
• Mentorship and Training: Access to mentorship programs and cross-functional training.
• Work-Life Balance: Enjoy paid time off, paid parental leave, and an annual winter holiday break.

This role can be based in our Charlotte headquarters or remote. If you are inspired by the opportunity to work in a high-performing, collaborative team and are excited about high-impact, project-based work, we would love to hear from you!