Senior Software Developer, Back-End Data Platform

SMART is helping educators and businesses succeed all over the world. Our technology empowers teachers, students and teams to learn and collaborate in innovative ways, inspiring breakthroughs – from improved learning outcomes to moving businesses forward.

Work at SMART Technologies, and you can be part of a team that creates, and markets leading-edge hardware and software tools sold around the world. You can join the many skilled professionals who make SMART part of three million classrooms worldwide. Reporting to the Manager, Software development, you will be a member of a highly agile team tasked with developing new functionality, as well as maintaining and supporting the existing, publicly available product. This team builds and maintains a high-performance data analytics pipeline in Amazon Web Services. The ideal candidate must be self-directed and a fast learner, flexible enough to work on new technologies as well as legacy components.

Responsibilities and Duties:

Work closely with our frontend teams to build value driven features for educators

Building, deploying and maintaining a data analytics pipeline in AWS

Build reusable code and libraries for future use

Optimization of the services for maximum speed and scalability

Implementation of security and data protection

Design and implement new functionality in our web services

Apply test-driven development practices including writing and maintaining unit tests

Work closely with our test team to ensure automated testing has appropriate coverage

Evaluate and choose new technologies and libraries to incorporate into our products

Participation in the full Agile software lifecycle

Write and maintain technical documentation

Resolve outages, field escalations, troubleshoot and fix technical bugs

Run performance benchmarking tests

Other duties as required

Skills

5+ Experience with developing software using Agile software development

2+ years Building and deploying applications to AWS

Strong foundations in computer science, in particular data structures, concurrent programming, distributed services, databases, etc.

Experience working with Python for interaction with AWS services and data analysis (e.g. boto3, numpy, pandas, PySpark)

Experience with AWS serverless architectures, such as Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, and Glue (Apache Spark) founded on infrastructure as code principles (Terraform)

Understanding test-driven development practices including writing and maintaining unit tests

Experience releasing software using a continuous deployment pipeline

Ability to take initiative and propose solutions

Enjoys working on a geographically distributed team

Preferred experience developing/architecting highly available services

Preferred experience working with data analytics in AWS, including Datalake, Lake Formation, Athena, AWS Redshift, Quicksight, etc)

Preferred experience developing web services in Java

Preferred degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field

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