Back End Software Engineer II

At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.

Summary:

The Back End Software Engineer II will be responsible for bringing new digital products to market and enhancing existing ones by leveraging your expertise in software development with state-of-the-art industry frameworks collaborating closely with product management on engineering teams. The Literacy Tasks Product is part of CA Assessment suite and is designed to provide information on how a student is performing in phonological awareness, encoding, and fluency-related reading skills. The Software Engineer II will have shared responsibility for the Literacy Task Backend (including the Lit Task Microservice), integration with the Front End and other iReady services.

Essential duties/responsibilities:

• Develop software enhancements specified by senior engineers in collaboration with product owners, to deliver i-Ready experiences.
• Develop robust software with design guidance from senior engineers accounting for seamless customer experience at scale.
• Operate with a continuous improvement mindset leveraging feedback loops such as code reviews and state-of-the-art code quality and productivity tools.
• Develop automated unit and integration tests to accompany all application code.
• Contribute ideas and effort to improve the efficiency of our software development lifecycle.
  
  

6 Contribute to code maintainability by addressing technical debt and defects.

• Communicate clearly and consistently to ensure seamless progress on shared team goals.
• Engage in proactive learning to improve functional as well as technical knowledge.
  
  

Required Job Skills and Abilities:

• Strong communication skills.
• A strong desire for self-development demonstrated by academic or industry achievements.
• Familiarity with Agile software development practices.
• Strong experience with SQL and Relational and Non-Relational databases Experience in writing and consuming REST and JSON-RPC APIs.
• Experience with Java, Spring, Hibernate/JPA, and related frameworks.
• Experience using AWS services (MySQL RDS, Dynamo DB, S3, etc.).
• Experience with unit testing frameworks such as Junit and/or TestNG. Experience working within an Agile engineering environment.
• Experience working with AI tooling such as Github Copilot or Cursor AI
  
  

Required Education and Experience:

1.1-3 years of software engineering experience

• Bachelor’s in computer science preferred
• Experience with web application development