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At , our mission is to make education smarter and our communities stronger. We harness the collective power of more than 1,900 schools, colleges, and universities to uncover and apply proven practices and transformative insights. And since complex problems require multifaceted solutions, we work with each school differently to apply these insights through a customized blend of research, technology, and services. From kindergarten to college and beyond, EAB partners with education leaders, practitioners, and staff to accelerate progress and drive results across three key areas: enrollment management, student success, and institutional operations and strategy.
At EAB, we serve not only our partner institutions but each other—that's why we are always working to make sure our employees love their jobs and are invested in their community. See how we've been recognized for this dedication to our employees by checking out our .
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The Role in Brief:
Software Engineer, Back-end
As a Software Engineer, you will be joining our superb software engineering team to solve engaging problems that feed into our two-week release cycle. Back-end Software Engineers are an essential part of EAB and use modern technologies such as Microservices, Kotlin/Java, NoSQL, and AWS Serverless, among other tools, to build high-quality, high-performance, and scalable solutions. You will also participate in a culture of collaboration and growth that provides mentorship and paths for career advancement.
This position is remote.
Primary Responsibilities:
Consistent with our belief that our employees are our most valuable resource, EAB offers a competitive and inclusive benefits package.
To that end, EAB is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we make employment decisions on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.
At , our mission is to make education smarter and our communities stronger. We harness the collective power of more than 1,900 schools, colleges, and universities to uncover and apply proven practices and transformative insights. And since complex problems require multifaceted solutions, we work with each school differently to apply these insights through a customized blend of research, technology, and services. From kindergarten to college and beyond, EAB partners with education leaders, practitioners, and staff to accelerate progress and drive results across three key areas: enrollment management, student success, and institutional operations and strategy.
At EAB, we serve not only our partner institutions but each other—that's why we are always working to make sure our employees love their jobs and are invested in their community. See how we've been recognized for this dedication to our employees by checking out our .
For more information, visit our
The Role in Brief:
Software Engineer, Back-end
As a Software Engineer, you will be joining our superb software engineering team to solve engaging problems that feed into our two-week release cycle. Back-end Software Engineers are an essential part of EAB and use modern technologies such as Microservices, Kotlin/Java, NoSQL, and AWS Serverless, among other tools, to build high-quality, high-performance, and scalable solutions. You will also participate in a culture of collaboration and growth that provides mentorship and paths for career advancement.
This position is remote.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop applications that interact with our web platform and third-party partner and client systems
- Collaborate with the product, QA, DevOps, and data teams to achieve common goals
- Follow common sustainable architecture patterns, design patterns, data management methodologies, and development methodologies and standards
- Ensure high quality solutions by implementing unit tests and developing for performance and scalability
- Independently break down, estimate, design, plan, and deliver small and medium sized features
- Contribute to existing tech stack and actively research and advocate for new tools, technologies, and methodologies to evolve it over time
- If desired, you can also choose to contribute as a full-stack software engineer or grow into a full-stack software engineer but that is not a requirement for this position. Our front-end is built on React.
- Passion for making performant enterprise applications
- 2+ years of development experience
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of experience
- Expertise with Kotlin or Java, Spring Boot, and relational or NoSQL databases
- Experience with Microservices and AWS Lambda
- Experience with back-end test frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, etc.
- Understanding of SDLC and the technical and business challenges that come with development of a product
- Self-driven and a desire to work efficiently and produce high quality
- Thorough, methodical, problem solver, and creative with extreme attention to detail
- Extremely strong verbal and written communication skills. This role must easily be able to have clear communication over email, IM, phone, and in person.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Expert at time management as well as working & finding answers to questions independently
- Expertise with Kotlin or Java, Spring Boot, JPA, Hibernate, MySQL, and MongoDB
- Experience with JUnit and Mockito
- Experience with AWS Lambda
- Experience with traditional back-end architecture and design patterns
- Experience with declarative and imperative programming
- Experience with Agile development
Consistent with our belief that our employees are our most valuable resource, EAB offers a competitive and inclusive benefits package.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; dependents and domestic partners eligible
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- 20+ days of PTO annually, in addition to paid firm holidays
- Daytime leave policy for community service or fitness activities (up to 10 hours a month each)
- Paid parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents
- Phase Back to Work program for employees returning from parental leave
- Infertility treatment coverage and adoption or surrogacy assistance
- Wellness programs including gym discounts and incentives to promote healthy living
- Dynamic growth opportunities with merit-based promotion philosophy
- Benefits kick in day one,
To that end, EAB is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we make employment decisions on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.