For more than 80 years, Kaplan has been a trailblazer in education and professional advancement. We are a global company at the intersection of education and technology, focused on collaboration, innovation, and creativity to deliver a best in class educational experience and make Kaplan a great place to work.
Our offices in India opened in Bengaluru in 2018. Since then, our team has fueled growth and innovation across the organization, impacting students worldwide. We are eager to grow and expand with skilled professionals like you who use their talent to build solutions, enable effective learning, and improve students lives.
The future of education is here and we are eager to work alongside those who want to make a positive impact and inspire change in the world around them.
As a Senior Software Engineer I, you're responsible for tackling complex tasks, design application architecture, and manage existing systems for functionality and performance. Drive software release timelines, provide production support, mentor team members, and collaborate across functions to meet project goals. Continuously evaluate best practices to enhance security, performance, and contribute to organizational initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Development of software applications to tackle the most complex and critical tasks.
- Playing a key role in designing and refining the architecture of applications.
- Managing and maintaining existing systems and applications, ensuring their ongoing functionality, performance, and deployment.
- Maintain high test coverage across unit, functional, and integration test suites.
- Manage the timeline and status of the software release process
- Work closely with developers to learn implementation details about product features and perform releases
- Provide production support of software products by investigating and recreating reported defects
- Providing guidance, mentorship, and training to other team members.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams, to meet project goals and deliverables.
- Continuously evaluating and adopting best practices in applications to improve security and performance.
- Involved in conducting interviews and various organizational initiatives.
- Hybrid Schedule: 3 days remote / 2 days in office
- 30-day notification period preferred
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's/Master's Degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Engineering)
- 6+ years of experience
- SME on Front End and/or BackEnd technologies such as HTML, CSS, Angular, .Net, (.Net Core , MVC framework,Web Services ,RESTful Services), JavaScript
- Experience with DevOps. (Jenkins)
- Able to define technical solutions that meet business requirements.
- Modeling & Building resusable components.
- Provide feedback on the product direction.
- Leading Meetings.
- Stronger fundamentals on software development: modularization, object oriented programming.
- Understands the broad architecture of the entire system and other code bases.
- Understands the full architecture of team's application in all environments.
- Writes production-quality code in one major programming language/framework. (production-quality: complexity/feature points, type of code review feedback)
- Makes decisions on technical tradeoffs looking at tactical and strategic perspective.
- Defines architecture for a new feature.
- Follows coding standards and best practices.
- Well versed in design patterns.
- Diagnoses problems in unfamiliar code bases.
- Identifies and leads discussions on the benefits/risks to different approaches.
- Actively works across their team, to apply Atom architecture principles related to scalability, flexibility, stability and simplicity.
