Intermediate Software Engineer at 2U

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

Technical

• Help to ensure that the integrity of the business domain products are maintained.
• Follow and contribute to best practices when completing work.
• Implement and maintain enterprise architecture.
• 20% of capacity needs to be dedicated to refactoring or maintenance.
• Research and recommend technology to meet business requirements.
• Define structure of new modules.
• Actively mentor and explain programming concepts to junior members.

People

• Work with team members to provide story points for upcoming work.
• Provide technical guidance and feedback to junior members.
• Provide peer feedback to the engineering team lead.
• Work with the engineering lead to help grow junior team members.
• Participate in technical interviews.

Management

• Communicate progress effectively with team members and business stakeholders.
• Make sure best practices are followed by team members.
• Work with juniors to break up tasks into smaller pieces.
• Drive solutions when maintenance issues arise.

Business

• Work with business to clarify and define requirements.
• Provide business domain knowledge to help drive decision making by business.
• Understand the roadmap and how current work relates to the strategic goals.
• Contribute to developing product strategy.
• Effectively communicate technological limitations to business.

Personal

• Live the company's values.
• Actively look for opportunities to improve.
• Drive self-improvement.
• Make sure team members don't get left behind.

Things That Should Be In Your Background:

• ± 3 Years web development experience.
• A degree in a software development related field.
• Object orientated experience.
• Good understanding of PHP, as well as front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and RESTful API.
• Good understanding of MySQL, Relational Database design and writing SQL queries.
• Linux command-line and Git experience.
• Familiar with continuous integration.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Experience in Moodle framework (beneficial, not required)

Other Attributes That Will Help You In This Role:

Working Conditions

• The candidate may be required to work after hours and be on support, if needed.
• High stress fast paced environment.

Management Responsibilities

• Personal time management is important.
• Ensure that administrative tasks, e.g. CapEx tracking sheet and Jira tickets, are updated in a timely manner.