Senior Software Engineer (USA Remote)

Company Description

100% REMOTE (Must be U.S. based)

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft, and ProctorExam.

Turnitin has offices in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. Come join us, and let's make change together.

Job Description

Turnitin is seeking a Senior Software Engineer interested in distributed systems, data modeling, and scalability to develop and improve our award-winning educational software. As an engineer on this team, you will be a core contributor to our service-oriented platform. These services provide the backbone for both existing and new applications. This work spans areas such as tenancy management, provisioning, license management, user roles and permissions control, and analytics. We operate at high scale across global markets and seek individuals that enjoy solving complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Make significant contributions implementing our platform services
• Ensure future success and stability through code quality and automated testing
• Work closely with software architects and database/operations engineers on system infrastructure and design
• Work closely with the Product Management team on requirement analysis
• Optionally mentor peers in Java best practices

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Knowledge/Experience:

• 5+ years experience writing robust web/SaaS applications in Java
• Proficiency in Object Oriented Programming
• Hands-on experience building cloud-ready solutions based on micro services and multi-tenancy architecture.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented design and implementation, and RESTful API design and implementation.
• Extensive experience with software development best practices (e.g. design patterns, test-driven development, code profiling, debugging).
• Knowledge in Database Systems
• Systemic thinking
• Open-mindedness in problem solving
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• High level knowledge and experience of industry trends and technology advancements relating to distributed systems, cloud, platform as a service, and software as a service.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Math or related discipline or equivalent professional experience

Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Knowledge/Experience:

• Background in cloud technologies and frameworks such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.
• Experience with container and clustering technologies like Docker, Kubernetes in a micro-services environment is desirable.
• Experience with technologies such as message queue, SSO standard such as SAML and Open ID, authorization frameworks such as OAuth2.

Additional Information

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes. 

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by  putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
• Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad

At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad.  We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!  

Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. We strongly encourage applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of age, gender, religion, marital or veterans status.