Software Engineer II (Hybrid) (Job Vacancy)

Software Engineer II (Hybrid)

For more than 80 years, Kaplan has been a trailblazer in education and professional advancement. We are a global company at the intersection of education and technology, focused on collaboration, innovation, and creativity to deliver a best in class educational experience and make Kaplan a great place to work.

Our offices in India opened in Bengaluru in 2018. Since then, our team has fueled growth and innovation across the organization, impacting students worldwide. We are eager to grow and expand with skilled professionals like you who use their talent to build solutions, enable effective learning, and improve students’ lives.

The future of education is here and we are eager to work alongside those who want to make a positive impact and inspire change in the world around them.

The Software Engineer II is responsible for software development as a member of a project team. Works closely with subject matter experts, product owners, quality analysts, scrum masters, and others to design, develop, and test software solutions to business problems.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Solve problems of considerable scope and complexity
• Designing, coding (at least 80%), debugging and optimizing both frontend and backend components as well as internal tools, such as configuration management
• Work closely with project, application, and enterprise architects to develop solutions.
• Drive the continuous evolution of best practices within the development team.
• Balance customer and business needs to design, develop, test, and deliver against timelines.
• Contribute to architecture and code design, estimates, code reviews, and documentation to ensure top quality software.
• Keeps current with emerging technologies and technological developments within the industry.
• Remains flexible and responsive to changing priorities and multiple, concurrent responsibilities.
• Be a talent multiplier that motivates the team around them to excel and perform well.
• Hybrid Schedule: 3 days remote / 2 days in office
• 30-day notification period preferred

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (BE / B.Tech)
• 3 - 5 years of software development experience
• Software development engineering experience, moderate design and architecture knowledge, as well as familiarity with object-oriented design patterns, web server/service development
• Application development experience using Java .
• Experience with SpringBoot
• Preferred to have MVC frameworks, Cloud Deployments, Azure/AWS
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies
• Automated build and continuous integration experience.
• Experience with SOAP and REST web services.
• Preferred to have any relational databases (e.g. MySQL) and unstructured datastores (NoSQL).
• Preferred to have Graphql Node JS / React (a plus)
• Moderate experience with a rich variety of software engineering principles, theories and concepts
• Some Experience with finding creative solutions, juggling multiple concurrent projects, releasing rapidly, and producing elegant, customer-centric applications.
• Has been a contributor on successful delivery on a large product or project, with applied knowledge and participation.
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Location

Bangalore, KA, India

Additional Locations

Employee Type

Employee

Job Functional Area

Development

Business Unit

00072 Kaplan Test Prep

Kaplan is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All positions with Kaplan are paid at least $15 per hour or$31,200 per year for full-time positions. Compensation for specific positions are based on job level, skills, years of experience, and education, among other factors. Additionally, certain positions are bonus or commission eligible. Information regarding benefits can be found here.

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