Software Engineer

Job Description:

**Working at Pluralsight:

At Pluralsight, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to create progress through technology. Everyone should have access to the skills of tomorrow. That technology can make the world a better place. Through the work we do every day, we empower the people who power our world. And we don’t let fear, egos or drama distract us from our mission. We’re adults, and we treat each other that way. We have the autonomy to do our jobs, we value transparency and trust in each other to do the right thing. We thrive in an environment with creativity around every corner, challenges that keep us on our toes, and peers who inspire us to be the best we can be. We bring different viewpoints, backgrounds and experiences, and united by our mission to advance the world’s tech workforce

**The Opportunity:

A Software Engineer’s role is to design, develop, and maintain our software application. They use their creativity and technical skills to help solve new and ongoing problems for an organization. They partner with our product teams to deliver on our roadmap, maintain current platform, and create new solutions for our customers.

**Duties/responsibilities:

• Participate in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Partner with product teams in product maintenance by resolving bugs, implementing updates to dependencies, and other various improvements as needed to ensure that our product continues to function as expected.
• Partner with the team in creating and maintaining team documentation including user manuals and other related materials that describe the software architecture and functionality that your team supports.
• Design, build, and support performant distributed systems
• Write unit tests, perform code reviews, and participate in design discussions about architecture, data shape, and business logic

**Minimum qualifications/skills:

• 5+ years of software development
• Building software with NodeJS, TypeScript, ReactJS, and Postgres.
• Good to have experience in building APIs using Node or Koa, Listeners and Worker services using Node. Knowledge on Kafka,
• Writing tests (TDD) and following clean code practices
• Familiarity with containers/Docker for development and deployment, a plus
• Demonstrated ability to take on challenges by pairing with other engineers, comfortable working independently, and mentoring junior developers.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze problems, identify candidate solutions, and communicate trade-offs and recommendations to peers and leaders.
• Demonstrated ability writing unit tests, performing code reviews, and participating in design discussions about architecture, data shape, and business logic with a commitment to engineering excellence.
• Experience working collaboratively with Agile or Kanban development teams.
• Ability to work in a remote-first team

Our Perks & Benefits Include:

• Competitive salary and meaningful benefits
• Comprehensive medical & dental coverage for you and your family
• Open vacation policy
• Stay active with our wellness program that allows you to expense your gym membership and other sports activities
• Tuition reimbursement

Physical and Mental Requirements

Work is performed in an office (or home office) environment and requires the ability to operate office equipment and keyboards. Sedentary work. Repetitive work.

Ability to perform tasks related to documentation, data analysis, transcription and extensive content analysis. Learn new tasks, remember processes, complete tasks independently, and make timely decisions in the context of a workflow.

EEOC Statement

Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age or protected veteran status. Pluralsight will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please visit the bottom of our website to learn how to request an accommodation.

For more information on Pluralsight’s commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce, please review our most recent Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging report here.

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