Senior Software Engineer II

Description

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.

As Senior Software Engineer at Anthology, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality technology solutions that empower the higher education community. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, provide technical leadership, and ensure best practices in software development to drive efficiency and innovation.

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Working closely with stakeholders, including product management, business analysts, product architects, and development teams to understand business initiatives and translate them into a strategic technical roadmap
• Developing and maintaining standards and best practices for engineering scalable and complex technology solutions
• Actively participating in design discussions and reviews, ensuring alignment with architectural principles and business requirements
• Leveraging AI and other innovative technologies to enhance product capabilities, improve quality, and drive efficiency in software solutions
• Analyzing business requirements, assessing impacted areas, and proposing effective solutions
• Writing clean, testable, reusable, and efficient code while performing thorough unit testing and debugging
• Overseeing stabilization and maintenance of the product suite, identifying root causes of issues and suggesting areas for improvement
• Collaborating with senior technical experts and industry groups to resolve complex technical challenges
• Mentoring and guiding team members in design collaboration, code reviews, development tools, and engineering processes
• Mentoring and guiding team members on design patterns, development best practices, and coding standards
• Ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions that enhance product performance, maintainability, and scalability
• Leading the design, development, and implementation of scalable and high-performance enterprise applications
• Suggesting multiple alternatives to resolve issues and enhance system performance, scalability, and reliability
• Understanding and contributing to software architecture, ensuring alignment with multi-tiered, microservices, and cloud-native best practices
• Defining and maintaining standards, best practices, and coding guidelines across projects
• Troubleshooting production/customer issues, utilizing tools like Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Splunk to diagnose and resolve problems efficiently
• Actively participating in SCRUM ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives), providing constructive suggestions and input
• Actively contributing to team commitments and driving continuous improvements in development processes
• Working with offshore and onshore teams, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing
• Proactively identifying risks, bottlenecks, and improvement areas, ensuring smooth project execution

The Candidate:

Required skills/qualifications:

• BE/BTech/MCA degree or above in Computer Science/IT or equivalent functional experience
• 8-10 years of experience in commercial software development in a SaaS-based company
• Proven experience in software development, with a solid understanding of programming concepts, best practices, and design principles
• Strong technical background in Microsoft technologies (C#, ASP.NET) with a minimum of 5 years in web-based application development
• Expertise in AI-powered solutions, leveraging Azure AI, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Services to enhance automation, decision-making, and data-driven insights
• Experience with Azure Analytics services, including Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Power BI, and Application Insights, for data processing, reporting, and visualization
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies, assess their benefits and costs, and develop proof-of-concepts to demonstrate their potential impact
• Thorough understanding of multi-tiered software architectures and service-oriented/microservices design patterns
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, and the ability to create detailed design specifications, implementation guides, and architecture diagrams
• Proven experience developing high-performance, multi-threaded, enterprise-grade applications
• Hands-on experience in cloud-based solutions using Microsoft Azure, including infrastructure, scalability, and security best practices
• Expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365:
• Customization building blocks
• Solutions – Building, Layering, and Publishing
• Schema, Workflows, Business Rules, and Plugins
• Flow/Power Automate with connectors
• Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Power Apps, and App Insights
• Integration with 3rd party ISVs

• Strong experience with .NET/.NET Core, MVC, Web API, and WCF
• UI Development expertise with React, Angular, jQuery, and other modern JavaScript frameworks for building scalable, responsive web applications
• Experience in Web GUI development and Single Page Application (SPA) development
• Experience in unit testing and mocking frameworks, such as NUnit & Moq
• Working experience with Azure DevOps (or TFS) and Git for source control and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong troubleshooting skills for production/customer issues, including log analysis, debugging, performance tuning, and root cause identification
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and diagnostic tools, such as Application Insights, Azure Monitor, and Splunk, to ensure system reliability
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including debugging and troubleshooting performance issues
• Ability to establish and enforce coding standards and best practices
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
• Proactive and solution-oriented mindset, with a "can do" attitude that fosters teamwork and success
• Experience working with offshore development teams and ability to mentor junior developers
• Ability to work independently and drive initiatives from concept to completion
• Fluency in written and spoken English