Senior Software Engineer

🕒 January 13

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $128k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Scholastic

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1920

📚 Education

📱 Media

🛒 Retail

Education • Media • Retail

Scholastic is a leading educational publisher known for providing books, educational materials, and digital solutions to schools, teachers, parents, and children. They offer a wide range of products including book clubs, book fairs, educational magazines, and digital learning tools designed to support literacy and inspire a love of reading in students. Scholastic is dedicated to creating resources that promote learning and literacy and frequently collaborates with educators to enhance classroom libraries and learning environments. "Every Order Gives Back to the Class" is one of their commitments, ensuring that each purchase contributes free books and resources to schools. The company also offers eGift cards and various subscription services aimed at supporting children's development and fostering a community of readers both at home and in schools.

📋 Description

• Determines the best approach for software implementations and architecture and works with the team to develop them. • Applies and coaches/advocates for common principles of good code development, including extensibility, reusability, maintainability, and testability through coaching/mentoring and code review. • Takes the primary role of leading sizing/estimating and backlog grooming. • Partners closely with the team’s Product Owner, designer, quality lead, and DevOps to manage within team capacity, manage tech debt, and mature/evolve effective team Agile product development practices. • Works with the PO to develop shared team understanding of business context, value, and strategic importance of their work. • Advocates for the team’s needs with engineering leadership. • Plays a key role in resolving code/architecture related production incidents, partnering strongly with other team members.

🎯 Requirements

• Aptitude for troubleshooting and problem solving. • Expertise in modern web application/services development, technical design and architecture. • Practical experience in software engineering and application/service architecture. • Strong sense of ownership and accountability with a commitment to delivering high quality software that balances technical and business goals. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate with a variety of audiences at all levels. • Strong understanding of Agile product development and practices. • Deep knowledge of modern backend (Java, Python) and frontend (React) development ecosystems, tooling, and best practices. • Strong backend development experience using Java (Spring Boot) and/or Python, including building APIs, services, and data processing components. • Leverage agentic AI tools for software development (Cline/Cursor/Kiro etc.) • Experience with cloud infrastructure and services, Amazon Web Services preferred (Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation/Terraform)

🏖️ Benefits

• Full suite of health and wellness benefits (including a $0 deductible Medical Plan) • Retirement Savings Plan 401(k) with options for both Roth and Traditional Contributions • Tuition-Free programs for undergraduate and graduate degrees • Generous Parental Leave Program • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with opportunity for discounted stock at a 15% discount