Senior Backend Software Engineer

🕒 July 23

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Top Hat

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201 - 500 employees

📚 Education

🏢 Enterprise

Education • Enterprise

Top Hat is transforming student engagement by empowering educators to deliver personalized, meaningful, and equitable learning. With a focus on real-time feedback and active learning, Top Hat's dynamic courseware and AI-enhanced features have been utilized by over 3 million students across 750 of the top 1,000 colleges and universities in North America. The company specializes in e-learning and educational technology to enhance classroom experiences and mobile engagement.

📋 Description

• Independent Implementation: Lead the full software development lifecycle for complex features, including implementation, comprehensive testing, and debugging of robust code. • Technical Leadership: Drive the technical delivery of projects, influencing architectural decisions and ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with long-term business goals. • Mentorship & Guidance: Actively mentor junior and intermediate engineers, providing constructive feedback through code reviews and documentation to support their professional growth. • Operational Excellence: Proactively identify operational risks and control deficiencies. Drive discussions regarding system redundancy, disaster recovery, and service availability. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Frontend Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers to build cohesive, user-centric solutions. • Process Innovation: Identify opportunities for automation and suggest UI improvements to enhance the overall user experience and internal delivery efficiency.

🎯 Requirements

• Expert Java Foundation: Extensive experience with Java and a deep understanding of core programming principles and best practices. Proven expertise in Spring Boot for building scalable microservices and experience managing data with MongoDB. • Enterprise Experience: A track record of working on enterprise-level software systems that require high reliability and performance. • Architectural Vision: Ability to design and implement forward-thinking architectures that balance short-term value with long-term sustainability. • Quality Focused: Strong commitment to delivering testable, observable, and maintainable code. • Preferred Experience: High-Traffic Systems: Experience designing and maintaining systems that handle high volumes of traffic and parallel connections. Open Source Passion: A demonstrated passion for contributing to or leveraging open-source technologies. UI/UX Awareness: A keen eye for user interface improvements and the ability to contribute to frontend-related technical discussions. Infrastructure & Cloud: Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) and containerization tools like Jenkins, Docker, or Kubernetes.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive health benefits that start on day one • Professional learning and development for all role levels • Flexible, remote first work environment • Innovative PTO policy with lots of time and space for self-care • Passionate customers that believe in us—and what we do