Senior Software Engineer - Anthology Inc

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Chennai, India

The Opportunity: 

Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. Our mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals.   

We believe in the power of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. As we expand globally, we are committed to making diversity inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of not only our hiring practices but who we are as a company.  

For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit  . 

We are building up a new group within Anthology focused on the data platform. This team’s mission is to bring data together from across Anthology’s extensive product lines into our cloud-based data lake. We are the analytics and data experts at Anthology. Our team enables other development teams to utilize the data lake strategically and effectively for a variety of Anthology products. We deliver products and services for analytics, data science, business intelligence, and reporting.

The successful candidate will have a strong foundation in software design, software development, scaled infrastructure, containerization, enterprise build patterns, pipeline development, and configuration management as well as strong problem-solving skills, analytical thinking skills, and strong written & verbal communication skills

Primary Responsibilities Will Include
• Learn ing quickly and develop ing creative solutions that encompass performance, reliability, maintainability, and security
• Apply ing hands-on technical design and implementation solutions using the AWS tool suite and other components to support Anthology products that utilize an expansive data lake
• Work ing with the development manager, product manager, and engineering team on projects related to system research, product design, product development, and defect resolution
• Be ing willing to respond to the unique challenges of delivering and maintaining cloud-based software. This includes minimizing downtime, troubleshooting live production environments, and responding to client-reported issues
• Work ing with other engineering personnel to ensure consistency among products
• Through continued iteration on existing development processes, ensur ing that we’re leading by example, fixing things that aren’t working, and always improving our expectations of ourselves and others
• Thriv ing in the face of difficult and complex problems
• Work ing independently with limited supervision
• Coach ing a review work of lower-level professionals