Overview
HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.
HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. HMH Technology India Pvt. Ltd. is our technology and innovation arm in India focused on developing novel products and solutions using cutting-edge technology to better serve our clients globally. HMH aims to help employees grow as people, and not just as professionals.
Software Engineering at HMH is focused on building fantastic software to meet the challenges facing teachers and learners, enabling and supporting a wide range of next generation learning experiences. We design and build custom applications and services used by millions. We are creating teams full of innovative, eager software professionals to build the products that will transform our industry.
We are staffing small, self-contained development teams with people who love solving problems, building high quality products and services. We use a wide range of technologies and are building up a next generation microservices platform that can make our learning tools and content available to all our customers.
If you want to make a difference in the lives of students and teachers and understand what it takes to deliver high quality software, we would love to talk to you about this opportunity.
Technology Stack
You'll work with technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Aurora, Mesos, Jenkins etc. This will be a hands-on coding role working as part of a cross-functional team alongside other developers, designers and quality engineers, within an agile development environment. We’re working on the development of our next generation learning platform and solutions utilizing the latest in server and web technologies.
Responsibilities:
Build high-quality, clean, scalable, and reusable code by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture and processes (Code Reviews, Unit testing, etc.) on the team.
Work with the product owners to understand detailed requirements and own your code from design, implementation, test automation and delivery of high-quality product to our users.
Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality.
Perform development tasks from design specifications.
Construct and verify (unit test) software components to meet design specifications.
Perform quality assurance functions by collaborating with the cross-team members to identify and resolve software defects.
Participate in production support and on-call rotation for the services owned by the team.
Adhere to standards, such as security patterns, logging patterns, etc.
Collaborate with cross-functional team members/vendors in different geographical locations to ensure successful delivery of the product features
Have ownership over the things you build, help shape the product and technical vision, direction, and how we iterate.
Work closely with your teammates for improved stability, reliability, and quality.
Perform other duties as assigned to ensure the success of the team and the entire organization.
Run numerous experiments in a fast-paced, analytical culture so you can quickly learn and adapt your work.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for services owned by team by following secure development practices.
Skills & Experience:
3 to 6 years' experience in a relevant software development role
Excellent object-oriented design & programming skills, including the application of design patterns and avoidance of anti-patterns.
Strong Cloud platform skills:
AWS Lambda, Terraform, SNS, SQS, RDS, Kinesis, DynamoDB etc.
Experience building large-scale, enterprise applications with ReactJS/AngularJS.
Proficient with front-end technologies, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript preferred.
Experience working in a collaborative team of application developers and source code repositories.
Deep knowledge of more than one programming language like Node.js/Java.
Demonstrable knowledge of AWS and Data Platform experience: Lambda, Dynamodb, RDS, S3, Kinesis, Snowflake.
Demonstrated ability to follow through with all tasks, promises and commitments.
Ability to communicate and work effectively within priorities.
Ability to work under tight timelines in a fast-paced environment.
Understanding software development methodologies and principles.
Ability to solve large scale complex problems.
Working experience of modern Agile software development methodologies (i.e. Kanban, Scrum, Test Driven Development)
HMH Technology Private Limited is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, colour, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation.
