Senior Software Engineer III

About this role

At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.

Join our innovative educational technology organization as a Senior Software Engineer. Leverage your expertise in Scala, Spark, databases, and Big Data to architect and deliver scalable, impactful software solutions. In this role, you'll lead solution engineering efforts, drive new platform and product developments, analyze and enhance system architecture, and collaborate with product managers to plan and execute smooth feature rollouts within an Agile environment.

The impact you'll have:  

• Lead technical initiatives and guide the team to develop innovative software solutions that address complex challenges.

• Build scalable, efficient, and high-performance pipelines and workflows for processing large volumes of batch and real-time data.

• Maintain and enhance existing software systems to ensure performance and reliability.

• Recommend and implement technology upgrades to drive continuous improvement.

• Support real-time streams, ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and reporting services.

• Design and develop data frameworks, applications, and microservices that seamlessly integrate with other services.

• Utilize Big Data tools such as Kafka, AWS S3 Data Lake, EMR, and Spark to ingest, store, transform, and query data.

• Adhere to coding best practices, including unit testing, design/code reviews, and comprehensive docu...