Senior Software Engineer - Learner Team

Our awesome team - focused on solving Learner’s needs - is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us here in Cambridge. Learner team projects are a major focus for edX and we're looking for an eager engineer to help implement/invent new products.

This team is building brand new, impactful product offerings for edX learners and partners. This will help us to fundamentally change online education.

We’re looking to hire an engineer that is eager to work on the full stack!

Responsibilities:

• Help guide the Learner engineering team by leveraging your skills in technical direction, priority setting, and execution/delivery.
• Opportunity to shape a brand new team at edX
• Use your creativity to help drive product features and functions
• Design, develop, deploy, and support scalable software systems.
• Understand and leverage key aspects of building operationally viable solutions.
• Values teamwork, collaboration and an evolving start-up atmosphere.

Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years of professional experience required
• Experience with Python or other dynamic development languages. (We use Python, but we can ramp you up if you’re new to it.)
• Exposure to multiple technologies, including but not limited to HTML, CSS, Javascript, Django, MySQL.

Preferred:

• BS in Computer Science or related
• Experience working in an agile development environment.
• Committed to documentation best practices - your code will be consumed in an open source environment!
• Familiarity with standards compliant front-end development and accessibility best practices.

edX is an MIT startup company that offers a highly competitive benefits plan, a pension program, free lunches every day as well as a plethora of other fun perks and access to some of the smartest people on the planet all working toward the mission of further education!

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