Online Campus Software Engineer

2U partners with leading colleges and universities to deliver the world’s best online degree programs. Our Platform, a fusion services and technology, enables schools to attract, enroll, educate, support and graduate students around the world. Our company culture is united by our No Back Row® philosophy; the idea that when we each lean in and do our part, we are better individually and collectively.

We are looking for a smart, collaborative and results-driven software engineer with experience in agile techniques like test driven development (TDD) and pair programming. Above all, you care about software craftsmanship. You have experience in, and passion for, high-quality, maintainable code that confers low operating costs, high change velocity and is a point of professional pride for you and the team.

You are a competent maker with the following competencies:

• Writing maintainable high-performance code
• Refactoring to keep code maintainable
• Conducting exploratory and automated testing
• Debugging complex problems under time constraints

You have experience in:

• Relating your project deliverables to products you are building and strategy behind them
• Advocating for end user needs in software you are building
• Collaborating with product managers to define and refine requirements

Over time, we expect you to grow by learning and practicing the following skills:

• Providing technical guidance and feedback to other team-members
• Planning and estimating development tasks and short-term projects
• Running deployment software to put code on production
• Participating in application level technical design
• Participating in technical interviews

We are motivated to build a team where members bring sound computer science fundamentals and a diverse set of skills and experiences to the table. We looking for experience and expertise (or demonstrable potential) in most of following technologies:

• Ruby on Rails
• JSON API
• Angular + Webpack
• AngularJS 1
• Python + Tornado
• MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
• AWS Lambda, Aurora, Elasticache, ClourdFront, RDS, SNS, SQS, and other AWS services.