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zyBooks (John Wiley and Sons, Inc)

Lead Software Engineer

CompanyzyBooks (John Wiley and Sons, Inc)
Websitezybooks.com
Roles
  • Lead Software Engineer
  • Strong DevOps acumen.
Typefull-time
Role taxonomySoftware EngineeringInfrastructure / SRE / DevOpsLead / Manager
SpecialtiesSoftware Engineering, DevOps
LocationLos Gatos, CA
Salary
Apply viaEmailhiring@zybooks.com
Hiring notes
TechJavaScriptPythonJavaMySQLKubernetesDockerAWS
Parsed locationsLos Gatos, CA
Posted bybmiller2
PostedNov 4, 2019
SourceView on Hacker News ↗

Original posting

zyBooks (John Wiley and Sons, Inc) | Lead Software Engineer | Full-Time | ONSITE (Los Gatos, CA) https://zybooks.com zyBooks provides online, interactive textbooks for Computer Science and other STEM majors. Our platform serves hundreds of thousands of university students per year with original content: programming in Python/R/C/C++/Java/MATLAB/ASM/HDL, mathematics like Calculus and Algebra, Material Science, Statistics, Circuits, and more. We're a company that cares deeply about our mission to help teach programming (and other STEM topics) more effectively. We also like to practice what we teach and build on a modern stack that includes K8s, Python, Redis, MySQL, EmberJS, and other cloud managed services. We're looking for a lead software engineer to help plan, architect, and design zyBooks platform feature development. The ideal candidate is an experienced full stack engineer practical experience working and/or designing systems involving Python, Docker, MySQL/NoSQL datastores, RESTful APIs, and AWS cloud services. Minimum qualifications: - Proficient in Python or Javascript. - Experience developing REST APIs and developing single page applications. - Experience with service deployments on Kubernetes, K8s configuration, and basic networking concepts (DNS, TCP/IP stack, etc). - Experience maintaining production infrastructure. - Strong DevOps acumen. - Ability to participate in on-call rotation for a few weeks out of the year. * U.S. Residents Only please! Interested? Please send a resume over to hiring@zybooks.com !