Full Stack - Principal Software Engineer

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.

Summary: 

The Full Stack Principal Software Engineer will be responsible for bringing new digital products to market and enhance existing ones by leveraging your expertise in software development with state-of-the-art industry frameworks collaborating closely with product management on engineering teams.  

Essential duties/responsibilities: 

1. Deliver large software initiatives in collaboration with product owners, to deliver i-Ready experiences. 2. Partner with architects and senior engineers to design robust software ensuring seamless customer experience at scale.

3. Operate with a continuous improvement mindset, conducting code and design reviews, as well as leveraging state-of-the-art code quality and productivity tools.

4. Develop automated unit and integration tests to accompany all application code.

5. Contribute ideas and effort to improve efficiency of our software development lifecycle.

6. Model and champion efficiencies in software development and delivery practices.

7. Drive code maintainability by addressing technical debt and defects proactively.

8. Communicate clearly and consistently utilizing verbal and written forms, to ensure seamless progress on shared team goals.

9. Engage in personal and peer development through mentorship program participation.

10. Engage in proactive learning to improve functional as well as technical knowledge.

Required Job Skills and Abilities: 

11. Strong communication skills.

12. A strong desire for self-development demonstrated by academic or industry achievements.

13. Experience working in an Agile environment, including experience with Scrum. 

14. Proven experience in designing features to meet business needs

15. Experience in Java, Spring, Hibernate/JPA, and related frameworks.

16. Strong experience with SQL and Relational and Non-Relational databases.

17. Proven Experience in Database design and performance tuning.

18. Experience in establishing CI/CD pipelines

19. Experience in writing and consuming REST and JSON-RPC APIs.

20. Experience using AWS services (MySQL RDS, Dynamo DB, S3, etc.).

21. Experience with modern UI technologies such as React, Redux, Flow, Typescript, Karma, Jest, and React Testing Library. 

22. Experience with unit testing frameworks such as Junit and/or TestNG.

23. Experience in Automation frameworks such as Selenium and/or Playwright.

24. Experience working with AI tooling such as Github Copilot or Cursor AI

25. Extensive experience delivering cloud hosted software services at scale.

Required Education and Experience: 

26. Bachelor’s in computer science preferred

27. 10+ years of experience in web application development.