TurnitIn offers a market-leading assessment-management solution that supports the entire testing process, including exam creation, administration, delivery, scoring and analysis. The software delivers powerful, actionable data to assess learning outcomes. Turnitin is a growing company that hires smart and talented people who are excited about personal growth, the positive impact they have on education, and enjoy working in a challenging and fun work environment.     

Turnitin is seeking a Principal Software Engineer interested in distributed systems, data modeling, and scalability to develop and improve our award-winning educational software. As an engineer on this team, you will be working on 2 co-products that help to provide additional  exam integrity to the assessment process. We operate at a high scale across global markets and seek individuals that enjoy solving complex problems.

Do you have the skills—and drive—to join a tech team that’s working to digitally transform the ed-tech industry? From test-driving the latest technologies to creating high performing applications, Turnitin is constantly innovating and creating industry-leading solutions that provide peace of mind for our customers worldwide. Turnitin has an inspiring mission, cutting-edge technologies, and in-house product development. 

Turnitin is seeking a software engineer interested in web products and site reliability to develop and improve our award-winning educational software. As an engineer in this position, you will  work on our main Java application in order to make the system more scalable as well as implement features and services that support our product. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the modernization of our platform while working with talented team members.

Responsibilities:

• Make significant contributions implementing our shared services, as well as help maintain and upgrade existing ones.

• Deliver Document Integrity product roadmap.

• Hands-on position which requires 90-95% of writing the code. 

• Provide guidance in technical design and development activities.

• Ensure future success and stability through code reviews and automated testing.

• Work closely with software architects and database/operations engineers on system infrastructure and design.

• Lead on technical design reviews and recommend improvements.

• Mentor engineers in software development, Java best practices, and technical decisions and emerging technologies.

• Collaborate with Product and Sales Support to meet customer goals

• Experience of designing and developing applications using Java for 5+ years for 4+ projects.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.

• Experience in working with geographically distributed teams including the USA & European countries.

• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.

• Experience with domain-driven design, event-driven microservice architecture, multi-tenancy,  serverless architecture.

• Cloud development with AWS preferred.

• Extensive experience with software development best practices (e.g. design patterns, test-driven development, code profiling, debugging).

• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.

Stack:

• Java 11

• Microservices

• Spring Boot (REST, Data, Security, Cloud, Webflux)

• AWS: SNS, SQS, Kinesis, Lambda

• Database: PostgreSql, Redis, Redshift

• Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform

• Newrelic, Splunk

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes. 

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by  putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.

• Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.

• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of ExamSoft. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.

• Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.

• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.

• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.

Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. We strongly encourage applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of age, gender, religion, marital or veterans status.