Senior Software Developer; Data

Savvas Learning Company is a global education company that produces award-winning learning solutions that empower educators and engage students with the highest quality content. Recognized as an industry leader, we serve millions of K-12 learners with innovative, student-centered educational programs that turn today's classrooms into active learning environments. By embracing technology, personalized learning, and immersive experiences delivered across multiple platforms, we design our learning solutions to be more accessible and relevant to each student.

Our award-winning, high-quality instructional materials span every grade level and discipline, from evidence-based, standards-aligned core curricula and supplemental and intervention programs to state-of-the-art assessment tools and the industry's most innovative portfolio of college and career readiness solutions – all designed to meet the needs of every learner.

• Work closely with the product management team to ensure we're building the best products.
• Ability to comprehend business requirements and be able to map them to technical data requirements.
• Perform research, analysis, design and implementation and provide effective solutions for short term and long term needs.
• Support and migrate existing systems to new platforms.
• Mentor other team members and developers.
• Work in a team environment and share knowledge.
• Evaluate new technologies and software products to determine feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities into the platform.
• Contributes as a hands-on software developer.

To support collaboration and engagement throughout the hiring process, candidates must be based in Boston, MA;
New York, NY;
Chandler, AZ;
Chicago, IL;
Raleigh, NC; or New Orleans, LA and available for an in‑person interview.

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, with strong fundamentals and problem solving skills.
• 6+ years of experience in architecture, design, analysis, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of highly scalable database services and components.
• 4+ years experience with transactional and NOSQL platforms including Redshift, Big Query, mySQL, Post Gres, Mongo and Document
  
  DB.
• At least 2 years of experience in Senior role mentoring developers.
• Understanding of Object Oriented Programming / Analysis and Design concepts, Design Patterns, and Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience in a continuous integration process, employing a CI server, automated unit testing and deployment.
• Strong experience with Git and knowledge on using Github CoPilot.
• Understanding of Cloud Architecture – AWS is mandatory.
• Design, develop, and test ELT processes per business requirements, following the development standards and best practices as well as participate in code peer reviews to ensure ELT applications and code process comply with industry best practices.
• Strong knowledge and experience in data modeling & design with relational and No
  
  SQL DBs.
• Demonstrated expertise in performance tuning in various DB environments.
• Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems in cloud env (AWS).
• Establishes database management systems, standards, guidelines and quality assurance for database deliverables, such as conceptual design, logical database, capacity planning, external data interface specification, data loading plan, data maintenance plan and security policy.

• Knowledge on DBT core for ELT processing.
• Knowledge on AWS services like Bedrock, Sagemaker, Amazon Glue.

We are proud to be recognized as a Top Workplace. Our employees are our most valuable asset, and we are committed to creating a work environment that promotes their growth, well‑being, and success. We develop learning solutions that empower educators and improve student outcomes thanks to our team’s passion, creativity, and dedication.

At Savvas, compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. We invest in our employees with a rewards package that combines compensation, exceptional benefits and wellness programs in addition to opportunities for professional growth. This role may also be…