At Liaison, weve helped higher education institutions build better, more diverse classes for three decades. You may recognize us as the company behind the Centralized Application Service (CAS), Enrollment Marketing services and platform (EMP), SlideRoom, Time2Track, TargetX (CRM) and Othot.
Everything we do is focused on taking that proven success and expanding its scope and scale. Over 31,000 programs on more than 1,000 campuses see us as a forward-thinking partner integral to meeting their total enrollment goals and were building the data- and mission-driven team that will reinforce our role for decades to come.
The Principal Engineer is a full stack senior developer with experience leading a scrum team. This role is responsible for leading a scrum team in the design and development of software solutions to build and optimize highly scalable, web based multitenant applications used by educational associations and institutions of higher learning including numerous colleges and universities.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop enterprise grade, high volume web and data applications platforms and state of the art technical solutions leveraging variety of technologies in public cloud such as AWS or GCP
- Develop and support APIs and business logic leveraging C#, .NET, docker, RabitMQ etc
- Develop and support web user interfaces using JavaScript Frameworks such as ViewJS, ReactJS
- Well versed with cloud native technologies and design patterns to build scalable cloud-based applications.
- Participate in design discussions and solution design sessions with product management and software development teams to shape new product features and platform capabilities.
- Provide support to critical production issues and infrastructure needs.
- Provide hands on guidance and mentorship to a team of front-end and back-end developers.
- Enjoy coaching, mentoring and guiding peer developers and QA engineers and working collaboratively with product and program managers, DevOps and other technical leaders.
- Contribute to evaluation, prototyping and selection of software solutions that will improve our technology infrastructure.
- Make recommendations to enhance performance and scalability of our flagship products.
- Develop unit tests and API integration tests to maximize code coverage in accordance with the software test pyramid.
- Apply Test Driven Development practices and software quality measurement tools to the improve quality of delivered software.
- Foster and support a culture of innovation and excellence in the engineering organization.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of relevant work experience, including at least 5 years working in an Agile scrum team
- 8+ years working with C#, .Net and related technologies.
- 5+ years working with AWS and its critical technologies such as EKS, SQS, ECS, Redis Cache,
- 5+ years working with relational database systems (e.g., MySql or PostgreSQL) and in-memory key-value databases (e.g., Redis) and NoSQL database such as Elastic, MongoDB
- 5+ years designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD (continuous integration / continuous deployment) processes using tools such as Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, and/or GitHub actions
- Working experience with OOP, SOA, microservices, and design patterns
- Experience building RESTful APIs
- Experience working with multiple tech stacks, and ability to quickly learn new technologies
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Comfortable with Linux systems and bash command line
- Proficient with tools such as git, npm, Docker
- Good knowledge of AJAX, JSON, HTML and CSS
