CMU CS Academy is a new project in the Computer Science Department at CMU with the goal of developing a novel, world-class, online, interactive high school computer science curriculum.

In this role, you are responsible for software needs across our product spectrum, including the frontend and backend for world-class web apps for students and teachers, software directly related to our content and our content production pipeline, and other coding opportunities as they arise (such as occasional data analytics, educational linting tools, and so on).   The backbone of this project involves developing cloud-based (presently AWS) web applications, including administering, maintaining, enhancing, testing, and debugging.

Given the educational nature of this position, in addition to world-class development skills, strong applicants should include some experience directly in education, preferably in teaching computer science at the pre-college or college level.

As the project is in its early stages, all project members will be expected to flexibly move between roles as needed, and to take on some responsibilities beyond their core job description.  This Principal Software Developer position is a wide-ranging and high-impact role requiring considerable technical and educational experience.

Responsibilities include:

• Design and implement educational projects to run on cloud infrastructure.
• Design, implement, deploy and test software infrastructure to support the administration of projects to students and teachers.
• Design  and test system enhancements.
• Develop  frontend and backend applications for content development, content deployment, student-facing exercises, student portal, and teacher portal.
• Implement experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of new educational methods and interventions to improve student learning.
• Maintain  the software systems used in all aspects of the project.

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or other relevant field required; MS preferred.
• Experience in education, preferably in teaching computer science at the pre-college or college level.
• At least 5-8  years of experience designing and supporting production frontend and backend applications.  Note that we may consider especially strong candidates who have only frontend or backend experience.
• Experience with Cloud platforms preferable – AWS preferred, but GCP, or Azure are acceptable.
• Experience with Django, Bootstrap, ReactJS.
• Understanding of user / system management for mid-scaled organization. Experience supporting authentication and authorization using OAuth or something similar is preferred.
• Experience in infrastructure and deployment automation is desired. Familiarity with CI/CD tools (such as Travis CI), and containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes) is preferred.

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