Lead Engineer-Academic Systems at Bibliu

Position Title: Software Engineer, Academic Lead

Reports to: V.P of Product 

Ideally US Time Zone Based

About Bibliotech

Join a team that’s transforming higher education by using our disruptive technology to serve the education community. Bibliotech gives you the opportunity to work with a mission-driven organization that is changing the future of the multi-billion dollar textbook industry. You’ll have a direct impact on students and educational professionals as we work together to reduce the cost of course materials.   

Why work for Bibliotech?

You will be part of a team that pushes boundaries to provide the most efficient learning experience for academic content worldwide. You will have the opportunity to influence product development. You will have access to cutting-edge frameworks and software tools, as well as developer conferences for Google, AWS, Apple, etc.

We offer a competitive salary, stock options, private medical insurance, travel card and more. To promote a healthy work-life balance, we offer generous paid time-off and remote working opportunities. We believe in cultivating a fun, energetic, well-nourished team culture! We enjoy free top-shelf coffee and healthy snacks, birthday cakes, social and team sporting events, and offsite retreats. 

This opportunity will allow you to work with a global, cross-functional, product-driven team. You will be a lead for our Academic Systems team. Taking an MVP into production, sprint planning, issue planning and reporting, Building and leading a team of 4/5 engineers working on LTI integration. You will be working with our Enterprise Customers to develop and improve our systems that integrate to their systems.

• Implement and build new features of a constantly evolving app
• Lead other engineers to deliver code
• Test code is written using well-known frameworks
• Peer code reviews
• Architect the structure of data
• Build new features with rapid scaling in mind
• Understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Work with stakeholders to define the best solutions to development problems and business requirements
• Set deadlines and communicate often about progress toward those goals

Requirements

Our Ideal Candidate has:

• 5+ years of Node.js experience
• 2 years experience with Web development
• Expertise in building integrations with 3rd party services
• Strong SQL understanding, experience with ORM services
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, or other cloud providers
• Experience in leading small engineering teams across multiple locations
• Familiarity with using JIRA
• Contributed to open source projects (Node.js knowledge preferred)
• Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical team members
• Works autonomously in an initiative driven environment
• Ability to multitask and prioritize multiple

Location: US Locations Only

Apply to: job.8h7hu@bibliu.recruitee.com