Associate Software Engineer I - Anthology Ally

Description

Associate Software Engineer I

Chennai, India

The Opportunity:

Anthology delivers education and technology solutions so that students can reach their full potential and learning institutions can thrive. Our mission is to empower educators and institutions with meaningful innovation that’s simple and intelligent, inspiring student success and institutional growth.

The Power of Together is built on having a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of our hiring practices and who we are as a company.

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

This role focuses on Anthology Ally, a revolutionary product that makes digital course content more accessible. As the accessibility of digital course content becomes increasingly important worldwide, institutions must address long-standing and often overbearing challenges. Anthology’s Ally engineering team is responsible for developing industry-leading tools to improve accessibility through inclusivity, sustainability, and automation for all students. 

As an Associate Software Engineer II on our team, you will design, develop, and maintain features of the Ally product. You’ll also communicate and partner cross-functionally with teams in product and software development. In this role, you will work on an ethical product, using Scala for the backend and JavaScript for the frontend. We run our applications in the AWS cloud and use Git for version control. You’ll work on a distributed team, collaborating with colleagues around the globe.  

The Candidate:

Required skills/qualifications:

• 0-2 years of relevant professional experience
• Frontend development experience in Angular/TypeScript
• Familiarity with the full-cycle development process
• Experience developing, building, testing, deploying, and operating applications
• Experience working with cloud technologies
• Awareness of how distributed systems work
• Experience with backend programming languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, Python, etc.)
• Knowledge of relational database design and querying concepts
• Willingness to break things and make them work again
• Fluency in written and spoken English
  
  

Preferred skills/qualifications:

• Functional programming experience such as Haskell or Scala
• Familiarity with working with AWS cloud technologies
  
  

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.

Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.