This role focuses on Ally, a revolutionary product that makes digital course content more accessible. As the accessibility of digital course content is becoming increasingly significant world-wide, institutions must address long-standing and often overbearing challenges. Blackboard's Ally engineering team is responsible for developing industry-leading tools to improve accessibility through inclusivity, sustainability, and automation for all students.
As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will design, develop, and maintain features of the Ally product. You’ll also communicate and partner cross-functionally with teams in product and software development. In this role, you will work on an ethical product, using Scala for the backend and JavaScript for the frontend. You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to advancing engineering best practices on the team. We run our applications in the AWS cloud and use Git for version control. You’ll work on a distributed team,
collaborating with colleagues around the globe.
Required Skills And Experience
5-7 years of relevant professional experience
Frontend development experience in Angular/TypeScript
Familiarity with the full-cycle development process
Experience developing, building, testing, deploying, and operating applications
Experience working with cloud technologies
Experiencing mentoring junior engineers
Awareness of how distributed systems work
Experience with backend programming languages (e.g. Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, etc.)
Willingness to break things and make them work again
Fluency in written and spoken English
Preferred Skills And Experience
Functional programming experience such as Haskell or Scala
Familiarity with working with AWS cloud technologies
About Blackboard
Blackboard delivers the digital environment for transformational teaching and learning. We serve thousands of institutions with the industry's mo
📌 Senior Software Engineer I (Chennai)
🏢 Blackboard
📍 Chennai
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