Senior Software Engineer II

Senior Software Engineer

Bangalore, India or Chennai, India

The Opportunity: 

Anthology delivers education and technology solutions so that students can reach their full potential and learning institutions 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. 

The Integration Development team is dedicated to creating seamless integration experiences that enable efficient interoperability between Anthology products. This role involves creating solutions that not only integrate Anthology products effectively but also enable Anthology customers and partners to extend these solutions to work with third-party applications.

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Developing and maintaining software on the Azure platform
• Ensuring the software delivered matches business needs
• Developing software in a group or independently
• Directly communicating with all levels of technical and business resources
• Participating in all phases of product development from concept through estimation, development, code review, unit testing, testing and demonstration
• Creating and/or determining feasibility of robust software solutions by analyzing problem definition and requirements
• Actively participating in SCRUM ceremonies, providing constructive suggestions and input that help refine acceptance criteria
• Working with team members to ensure delivery of high-quality software
• Guiding and mentoring Software and Associate Software Developers
• Documenting and sharing knowledge in an organized manner
• Coordinating and working with developers and business stakeholders to understand business requirements, design specifications and develop code
• Investigating and resolving integration-related issues such as performance issues, data discrepancies, and security concerns
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to understand integration requirements and provide technical onboarding support for other product development teams

The Candidate:

Required skills/qualifications:

• 6-8 years of relevant experience in software development
• In-depth knowledge of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform
• Extensive hands-on experience with development in ASP.Net, and C#
• Thorough experience in code reviews, debugging, and troubleshooting
• Well-versed with API creation, Asynchronous Messaging, and other integration concepts
• Solid understanding of all phases of SDLC
• Good analytical skills as well as a solid object-oriented programming, good knowledge of project life cycles and large project experience
• Good understanding of CI/CD using cloud platforms such as Azure DevOps or similar
• Well-versed with Agile way of working and onsite-offshore coordination
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Results-oriented team player and excellent interpersonal skills
• Takes accountability and self-motivated
• Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities as necessary
• Ability to function in a collaborative and dynamic development environment
• Experience with various Azure services including but not limited to:
• Azure Service Bus for messaging
• Azure Functions for serverless compute
• Azure SQL Database for relational data storage
• Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL data storage
• Experience in implementing one or more of the following as high performance/concurrency solutions using C# web services:
• EAI (Enterprise Application Integration)
• EII (Enterprise Information Integration)
• B2B (Business to Business)
• B2C (Business to Consumer)

• Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred skills/qualifications:

• Knowledge of unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing
• Knowledge of Azure security best practices and concepts
• Understanding of Application Integration use cases, methods, and security

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.