Senior Software Engineer at 2U

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

Technical

• Help to ensure that the integrity of the business domain products is maintained.
• Follow and contribute to best practices when completing work.
• Implement and maintain enterprise architecture.
• Certain capacity needs to be dedicated to refactoring or maintenance.
• Research and recommend the technology to meet business requirements.
• Define the 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 timely feedback on work being done to the relevant stakeholders.
• Work with the engineering lead to help grow junior team members.
• Participate in technical interviews.

Accountability for results

• Communicate progress effectively with team members and business stakeholders.
• Make sure the 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 stakeholders to clarify and define requirements.
• Provide business domain knowledge to help drive decision making by the business.
• Understand the roadmap and how current work relates to the strategic goals.
• Contribute to developing product strategy.
• Effectively communicate technological limitations to business.

Other Attributes That Will Help You In This Role

• Live the company's values.
• Actively look for opportunities to improve and drive self-improvement.

Things That Should Be In Your Background

• ± 4 Years of web development experience.
• A degree in a software development related field.
• Experience: Any open source development, Ruby on Rails would be beneficial.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Familiarity with the following concepts: MVC, SOLID design principles and RESTful APIs.
• Exposure to object-oriented programming and relational databases, continuous integration and Git.