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About NCSA College Recruiting
NCSA College Recruiting is the world largest college recruiting platform, providing student-athletes content, tools, coaching and access to a network of 40,000 college coaches across 37 sports. NCSA is an online experience of IMG Academy, the world’s leading sports education brand and one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation in 2024 and Top Remote Places to Work in 2024. IMG Academy provides a holistic education model that empowers student-athletes to win their future, preparing them for college and for life. Additional on-campus and online experiences include:
- Boarding school and camps, via a state-of-the-art campus in Bradenton, Fla.
- Online coaching via IMG Academy+, with a focus on personal development through the lens of sport and performance
Position Summary
The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for collaborating in a cross-disciplinary team to implement software systems developed by the company. This is a hands-on, highly skilled, individual contributor role. Members of this team are responsible for the development, maintenance, and operation of secure, highly available services consumed by other applications developed within the company. Software developed by this team is written in Go or Python, deployed via Kubernetes to AWS infrastructure, and communicates with multiple backing services (PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch. Kafka) and SaaS tools (Auth0, Shopify, Contentful).
Position Responsibilities
- Write loosely-coupled, well-tested, and maintainable code.
- Automate testing, deployment, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and capacity planning for services and applications.
- Collaborate with the Product Management team to craft technical solutions that meet internal and external customer needs.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering and Security teams to employ standard infrastructure components, release code with increasing volume and velocity in a self-service fashion and meet company security standards.
- Forecast application utilization and identify potential bottlenecks or optimization opportunities.
- Support critical applications in a fast-paced environment.
- Provide on-call support on a rotating basis (roughly 1 week per month; very low incident rate).
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- 5+ years’ minimum experience in back-end or full-stack software engineering using systems programming languages like Python or Go.
- Experience with back-end development of distributed systems.
- Experience with cloud-based development environments (primarily AWS).
- Experience with 12-factor applications and modern development practices.
- Experience with containerized Linux environments and container orchestration using tools like Kubernetes.
- Experience with automated infrastructure provisioning and continuous deployment.
- Experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform.
- Familiarity with relational databases (e.g. Postgres) and non-relational data stores (e.g. Redis, OpenSearch).
- Familiarity with event-driven application architecture concepts.
- Familiarity with software monitoring, telemetry, and incident response handling.
- Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with Generative AI programming assistants a plus.
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Background Requirements:
- Requires a background check upon offer
Benefits:
As a full-time member of our team, you will enjoy a comprehensive offering listed below. Connect with your talent acquisition specialist to learn more about benefits for our part-time roles.
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision
- Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options
- 401k with an Employer Match
- Short Term and Long Term Disability
- Group and Supplemental Life & AD&D
- Gym Discount Program
- Pet Insurance
- Wellbeing Program
- and more!
Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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