Sr. Software Engineer

Build the Future

Do you enjoy testing the limits of possibility? At McGraw Hill, our Senior Software Engineers drive progress and help build the future of learning. If you have the passion and technical expertise to thrive in an innovative and agile environment, we want to learn more about you.

Your impact on the team

McGraw Hill SIMnet is a course management and learning solution that enables learners to achieve their full potential. In this role, you will improve automation and efficiency of your teammates, leading to improvements in the strength of SIMnet as a product, and enabling your team to increase its velocity as we build new features and expand the SIMnet brand. By combining strong analytical skills and technical acumen, you will contribute to a holistic product vision that energizes your teammates and delights your customers. 

As an education innovation company, we're proud to play our part by inspiring learners around the world. If you bring your curiosity, we'll help you grow in a collaborative environment where everyone shares a passion for success.

Even if you are not currently looking for a change, we encourage you to apply now and speak to the hiring manager to learn about the opportunity, the diverse team, and culture.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States. 

What you’ll need to be successful

• 5+ years building responsive, accessible, high‑performance web products, including 2+ years leading projects or initiatives.
• Ability to operate across the stack (frontend, backend, databases, infrastructure) and navigate ambiguity.
• Cloud‑native development experience at scale (containers, serverless, microservices) on AWS.
• Hands‑on experience with observability platforms (e.g., New Relic) to monitor and improve product health.
• Strong customer empathy: translate user needs into measurable outcomes and iterate based on feedback.
• Passion for engineering excellence and an ownership mindset: you take responsibility for quality and reliability.
• Effective communication and collaboration: mentor teammates and elevate technical standards.
• Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with modern tools and practices.

What you’ll be doing

• Contribute to the design and development of responsive, accessible web-based learning tools used globally by learners and educators.
• Own end‑to‑end delivery: discovery, technical design, development, automated testing, deployment, and production support.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teammates to translate requirements into scalable solutions and iterative roadmaps.
• Shape architecture and standards; improve SDLC with infrastructure‑as‑code and monitoring‑as‑code.
• Promote best practices to ensure quality, performance, security, resiliency, and maintainability.
• Build actionable observability (dashboards, alerts) in New Relic; define SLOs and drive operational excellence.
• Contribute to a culture of extreme ownership, share knowledge across teams and mentor other engineers.

Required technical skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience; 5+ years in product/enterprise software development.
• CI/CD (e.g. GitHub Actions): design and operate testing and deployment pipelines; feature flags; blue‑green releases; artifact management (e.g., Artifactory).
• Quality: unit, integration, and end‑to‑end testing; code coverage; static analysis; automated code quality checks.
• Backend/API (e.g. Node.js):
  • RESTful service design, versioning, idempotency, rate limiting, pagination, robust error handling.
  • Authentication and authorization (OAuth2/OIDC, JWT); security best practices (CSRF, input validation).
  • Performance and resilience: profiling, caching, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers; response streaming; real‑time messaging (WebSocket).
• Front End: 
  • React, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS/Less; Bootstrap; state management (query string vs Redux & alternatives).
  • Accessibility (WCAG) and front‑end performance practices (code splitting, bundle analysis).
  • Build tooling and bundling.
  • Cloud & infrastructure:
    • AWS (ECS, Lambda, Containers); networking fundamentals; IAM and secrets management.
    • Infrastructure as code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
  • Observability:
    • Logging, metrics, tracing; New Relic dashboards and alerts; SLOs and error budgets; on‑call readiness
  • Databases:
    • SQL and/or MongoDB; data modeling.

Why McGraw Hill?

The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively designing content that will build the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights.