Technical Lead, Dev Ops

Position Purpose:

The Software Engineering Technical Lead leverages software engineering principles, expertise, and team management experience to lead teams to develop and fix features of software developed by Benchmark’s Software Engineering department. Benchmark Education builds software to meet the challenges facing literacy learners and teachers. Our software enables and supports a wide range of next generation learning experiences with the promise of doing even more with the right technology team members. The Software Engineering Technical Lead leads internal BEC teams or development partner teams to design, build, and manage customer facing and backend technology solutions using a variety of technologies.

Job Responsibilities:

· Lead and manage an internal or outsourced Agile software development team taking responsibility for solving one or many complex problems.

· Competent at turning ideas into code, and making that code usable by your teammates, and the company at scale.

· Advance our goals around quality and engineering discipline

· Review code pull requests for solution completeness and adherence to coding practices and standards

· Test, analyze data, and improve constantly

· Capable of moving from prototype to production and taking responsibility for the full lifecycle of a component.

Job Requirements/Skills and Experience:

· At least 8 years of experience and a bachelor's degree in computer science or related field is preferred.

· Demonstrated expertise with Computer Science principles in object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithm design and complexity analysis

· Experience leading or managing small agile development teams, guiding and reviewing the deliverables of each member on the team

· Expertise in at least one of the following, preferred expertise in more than one:

o Java

o ES6 JavaScript

o PHP 7.x

· Ability to work in a collaborative agile environment

· Excellent written and spoken English communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

· Understanding of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, configuration management, quality assurance, and release management.

· JavaScript and Web Development experience:

o Single page application development using ES6 JavaScript

o React framework and Redux state management

o CSS, LESS, or SASS

o Unit testing with Jest, Enzyme, Mocha and Chai

o Frameworks such as React, Redux, Backbone, or Vue JS

o Data visualization packages such as D3

· Application and Service development experience:

o SQL and NoSQL datastores such as MySQL and MongoDB

o Familiarity with basic design patterns and UML

o Familiarity with PHP 7.x, Laravel, and PHP Unit

o Familiarity with Spring projects for Java

· AWS technologies: RDS (Aurora), Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, RedShift, EC2, SQS, SNS, Cloudwatch, S3, or Cloudfront

· Container technologies, e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, Apache Mesos

· Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong communication skills and work ethic; self-starter.

· Ability to apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts, and contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas.

· Experience working on unusually complicated problems and providing solutions that are highly creative and ingenious, exhibiting ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness.

ABOUT BENCHMARK EDUCATION COMPANY

Benchmark Education Company (BEC) is a leading publisher of core, supplemental, and intervention literacy and language resources in English and Spanish, with valid and reliable digital assessments that inform instruction. BEC is also a provider of exceptional professional development to educators.

BEC is recognized as a responsive publisher that offers equally rigorous and engaging digital, print, and hybrid learning materials grounded in the Science of Reading research. BEC monitors research outcomes carefully to create effective foundational resources that include strong decoding materials with systematic and explicit instruction and high-quality resources focused on language development and comprehension. BEC’s content-rich and authentic texts offer instruction in close reading and analysis, multiple perspectives, and authentic literature while building world knowledge and reflecting the individuality of every student in each diverse classroom.

Family owned and operated for more than 25 years, BEC is committed to partnering with educators to provide the best for all students through resources of exceptional quality, world-class professional learning, and effective and dedicated customer support.

Benchmark Education Publishing (BEC) and its affiliates are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

For further information, visit us at: https://www.benchmarkeducation.com