Senior Software Engineer - Backend
About the Team:
The Academy Product Group's mission is to enable Sales, Marketing, and Services professionals to build confidence in their expertise through education, and trust within the HubSpot ecosystem through credentials. HubSpot Academy has thousands of weekly active users from a variety of backgrounds including: 'Academy-only' users seeking out education, new freemium signups who are just getting started with HubSpot, and experience HubSpot customers and partners who are learning more about how to use HubSpot's product. These users come from all over the world and are taking courses in a wide variety of languages.
The Academy Creator team is focused on building the tools to help our instructors create and manage their content. This includes file management, localization, creating exams, and tracking content performance. They will collaborate closely with other Academy teams that are focused on the end user experience. Our back-end teams are supported by a top-class platform team offering easy access to technologies like Java, HBase, MySQL, Kafka, and ElasticSearch. React and Redux are utilized by our front-end teams to deliver fast, easy-to-use and exceptionally reliable user interfaces.
Job Responsibilities:
Build highly reliable and scalable systems to support thousands of weekly Academy learners
Work on design and development of new tools to support content creation for Academy
Mentor junior engineers in areas such as architecture, design, coding, tooling and infrastructure
Provide technical leadership and direction for team projects
Participate in code reviews
Carry out system testing and debugging
Liaise with team members to solve development issues
Pager duty (on call rotations for operational support)
Collaborate with wide variety of stakeholders across the organization for requirements gathering and solution design
Requirements
5+ years experience, ideally with Java, or similar programming language
Experienced with Relational Databases such as MySQL
Software Architecture skills - design and maintenance
Experience in building and debugging performant asynchronous systems
Experience building scalable Java apps in production
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Senior Software Engineer - Backend
About the Team:
The Academy Product Group's mission is to enable Sales, Marketing, and Services professionals to build confidence in their expertise through education, and trust within the HubSpot ecosystem through credentials. HubSpot Academy has thousands of weekly active users from a variety of backgrounds including: 'Academy-only' users seeking out education, new freemium signups who are just getting started with HubSpot, and experience HubSpot customers and partners who are learning more about how to use HubSpot's product. These users come from all over the world and are taking courses in a wide variety of languages.
The Academy Creator team is focused on building the tools to help our instructors create and manage their content. This includes file management, localization, creating exams, and tracking content performance. They will collaborate closely with other Academy teams that are focused on the end user experience. Our back-end teams are supported by a top-class platform team offering easy access to technologies like Java, HBase, MySQL, Kafka, and ElasticSearch. React and Redux are utilized by our front-end teams to deliver fast, easy-to-use and exceptionally reliable user interfaces.
Job Responsibilities:
Build highly reliable and scalable systems to support thousands of weekly Academy learners
Work on design and development of new tools to support content creation for Academy
Mentor junior engineers in areas such as architecture, design, coding, tooling and infrastructure
Provide technical leadership and direction for team projects
Participate in code reviews
Carry out system testing and debugging
Liaise with team members to solve development issues
Pager duty (on call rotations for operational support)
Collaborate with wide variety of stakeholders across the organization for requirements gathering and solution design
Requirements
5+ years experience, ideally with Java, or similar programming language
Experienced with Relational Databases such as MySQL
Software Architecture skills - design and maintenance
Experience in building and debugging performant asynchronous systems
Experience building scalable Java apps in production