Jobs in Baltimore, MD

About the role

Job Title: Java Developer with AWS, PHP and Groovy experience Our team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong web development experience to work in our Baltimore, MD or Tysons Corner, VA location. As our technical leader and programmer, you will put in place the engineering team and processes to propel us into the top ranks of EdTech companies in both B2B and B2C spaces. Our e-commerce model lets users create their own technology-enhanced student-assessment items and sell them on our site along with our own high-quality learning objects. Our learning platforms can connect with 3rd-party learning-management systems and you'll integrate our systems with the most widely- used learning technologies in the world today. This is an opportunity for you to apply your engineering and programming expertise and grow into a leadership role steering the technical direction of Wisewire. You will coordinate the efforts of a number of independent developers and perhaps a small vendor team building our WordPress/PHP based marketplace as well as our J2EE/Groovy-based student assessment platform. You will OWN our code and you'll create our software-development and operational processes from scratch. You will select or build tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations, show leadership in finding out-of-the-box solutions to technical issues and also an opportunity to enhance your DevOps skills

What you'll bring

• You've worked as a Senior Software Engineer in an enterprise setting
• You have implemented or spearheaded new processes that include GitHub, scum, continuous integration and deployment
• You have expert-level code experience with PHP (especially custom coding in WordPress/Woocommerce) and/or Groovy
• You have worked in a team of JavaScript engineers, you have done or led front end development, have been in situations where you have re-architected legacy systems
• You have lead or worked in a team of developers to successfully design and develop a multi-tier application.
• You have designed and developed custom web and native applications;
• Developed core services using a prebuilt framework to perform tasks and may be authored software documentation.
• You have experience with configuration management and some dev-ops insight
• You're comfortable with a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with Git and AWS is required)
• You're fluent in SQL and MySQL
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT-related discipline
• At least 4 years’ experience in web software development

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