Sr Software Engineer - UI

Skillsoft is the global leader in eLearning – we train more professionals than any other company in the World, over 400 million learners and currently supporting more than 6000 customers including half the Fortune 500!

We have recently released our next generation SaaS platform solution – Percipio, the industry’s first immersive eLearning platform. This is the realization of our vision that brings together technology and product to build the most beautiful product possible. You will be working with us to extend our vision and enhance and improve our product. See what team members had to say about this journey – Percipio Journey

Position:

To succeed in this challenging journey we have setup multiple co-located team across the globe (Hyderabad, US, Europe), embracing the scaled agile framework, a Micro Services approach combined with the DevOps model. We have passionate engineers working full time on this new platform in Hyderabad and it’s only the beginning. You will have the chance to work with brilliant people and some of the best development and design firms in addition of working with cutting edge technologies as React, Elixir, Node.js, Ruby, Docker, Kubernetes.

We are looking for exceptional Java based full stack developers to join our team and also learn new technology as Node.js which some of our teams already use. You will work jointly with Architect and DevOps to form a fully autonomous development squad and be in charge of one part of the product.

Desired Experience (* = required)

• Minimum 4+ years of software engineering development experience background working with developing cloud-based enterprise solutions.
• Strong knowledge in working with REST API*, Web services and SAML* integrations
• Experience working with databases preferably
• Experience in programming languages (Java*, JavaScript*, HTML5*, CSS*)
• Experience with frameworks (Spring Boot, Stream processing)
• Experience in Javascript frameworks (Node.js, React, Redux, Angular, js)
• Experience with DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, AWS)
• Experience in UI Test frameworks (CasperJS, PhantomJS, Mocha, Jasmine, JEST, Selenium, )
• Experience with code versioning tools, preferably Git (Github, Gitlab, etc) and the feature branch workflow
• Good in multi-threading, algorithms and complex problem-solving skills
• Working experience on Kafka, RabbitMq (messaging queue systems)
• Experience with build automation tools like Maven, Gradle, NPM, WebPack, Grunt
• Must know how to code applications on Unix/Linux based systems*.
• Experience in working with Agile/Scrum environment*.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to understand complexities and how components connect and relate to each other
• Technical expert with in-depth programming and product knowledge and strong technical skills combined with project management and leadership ability.

Iteration Planning

• Prepare for Iteration Planning, including:
  • Actively participate in backlog refinement sessions in collaboration with other Agile team
  • Identify and capture backlog items local to the team, such as defects and
• Actively participate in team planning and contributing to team
• Volunteer for and commit to delivering stories and tasks within the iteration.

Education and Certifications:

BE or MCA or equivalent preferred.