Senior Software Engineer

ACT Education Corp. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer responsible for the design, development, testing, and support of IT solutions and software quality activities. Independently design flexible, scalable solutions, utilizing skills in data structures, algorithms, and object oriented programming. Independently build, customize, deploy, and manage software in a continuous integration environment, including automated build, test and deployment infrastructure. Proactively monitor product scalability, reliability, consistency, and performance and own all activities related to Scrum team execution, including anticipating and proactively planning work across sprints. Actively participate in design / architectural discussions, grooming user stories, sprint demos, and daily scrums in BDD approach and recommend changes. Contribute to tool selection, organizational standards, best practices and process improvements. Mentor team members in technical areas. Telecommuting/remote employment allowed after one year of employment at Iowa City headquarters. Annual salary for this position is $114,171.

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Development, Information Systems or closely related field with five years of progressive IT experience that includes: coding in JAVA or Python, working in an Agile development environment, and experience with automation testing of UI features using Selenium, developing Python scripts for testing using IDEs, and defining automation test strategy, approach, and planning for Agile sprints and as well as demonstrated ability to develop software solutions, to use JSON and XML, to mentor and coach team, and to work as part of a Scrum team, following SAFe Agile practices; strong understanding of Python; demonstrated relational and no-SQL database skills (MongoDB, Raven); and strong knowledge of version control (Git).

ACT is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. ACT values diversity in people and ideas and participates in E-verify. ACT's online position announcements are intended only to provide general descriptions of employment opportunities; none of the information provided for any position should be interpreted as a commitment by ACT to specific terms and conditions for employment.

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