Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

About This Role

This Senior Software Engineer will contribute to high-impact products at ITHAKA, leveraging modern technologies to develop, deploy, and maintain scalable web applications that expand access to knowledge and education.

Responsibilities

• Participate as an empowered member of a collaborative Agile team to design, develop, and maintain high performance applications
• Leverage continuous deployment and test automation tools to deploy application changes to production multiple times per day
• Interact with internal and external customers to understand their needs and drive the development of web applications
• Implement rich, interactive web applications using the latest technologies, frameworks, and patterns
• Leverage web analytics to support product discovery and to measure project KPIs
• Test, measure, and optimize performance using Application Performance Management tools
• Participate in the on-call rotation as a first point of contact for applications you own
• Demonstrate leadership skills in mentoring team members and articulating and evangelizing new technologies, methodologies, and processes
• Participate in analysis of pricing, risk/reward, cost advantages, and resourcing to support technological improvements

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a full-stack software engineer building large-scale, distributed web applications
• Proven experience with cloud infrastructure services, particularly AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions)
• Expertise creating and operating backend services using Python, Golang, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript with frameworks like FastAPI, NodeJS or Spring Boot
• Fluent in creating and operating user-facing applications using frameworks like React or Vue
• Experience creating and managing APIs for use by multiple teams using REST or GraphQL
• Deeply knowledgeable in using a decentralized version control system like Git in a collaborative context on a platform like GitHub or GitLab
• Proficient in creating and operating containerized applications, particularly in a Kubernetes environment using Docker
• Familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, Jest, pytest, Playwright) and TDD practices
• Hands-on experience mentoring other engineers in a technical and interpersonal capacity
• Exceptional communication, thoughtfulness, and desire to give and receive regular feedback

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a full-stack software engineer building large-scale, distributed web applications

Nice to Have

• Real world experience building and operating LLM- or ML-backed systems in production
• Ability to evaluate and reason about LLM outputs and system behavior
• Experience utilizing OpenSearch for powering ML based solutions
• Experience with serverless and event driven architecture
• Proven background with accessible coding practices, including semantic HTML, ARIA attributes, and keyboard navigation
• Experience using profiling tools to analyze and optimize application performance like Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus
• Working knowledge with cache management, content delivery, and application security at the edge using CDNs like Fastly or CloudFront
• Exposure and fluency working with data modeling in relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL and MySQL) or NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB and DynamoDB)
• Experience securing large applications against SQL injection, XSS, CSRF and other exploits
• Established in practice using Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools
• Highly effective with GraphDB such as Neo4j, AWS Neptune etc.
• Experience leveraging AI tools like Claude, Codex etc in an appropriate fashion in the SDLC

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits