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Lead Software Engineer

McGraw Hill

1 Positions

ID: 5568

Posted On 05/02/2025

Job Overview

Overview

Build the Future

At McGraw Hill, we are dedicated to delivering digital learning experiences that transform education for learners and educators. Our focus is on creating seamless, impactful products that truly benefit our users while supporting growth and collaboration across teams. We foster a culture that values innovation, teamwork, and a balance between career growth and personal well-being.

How can you make an impact?

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing and optimizing McGraw Hill’s eCommerce platform, the core revenue engine driving our digital and print business. Your work will ensure that millions of students and educators across K-12, Higher Education, Professional, and international segments have seamless access to digital learning materials in today’s hybrid and remote learning environments. You will be asked to play the role of a solution architect on key strategic initiatives, focusing on designing our next generation B2B eCommerce capabilities. You will lead and mentor a team of engineers, drive technical excellence, and enhance the best practices across the organization.

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

What You'll Do:

+ Work with senior business and technology stakeholders to understand our end-to-end customer value chain, help define areas of improvement and design elegant solutions to meet those business needs

+ Collaborate with Product and Engineering Leadership to refine product backlogs and development roadmaps

+ Lead feature development and bug fixes, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability.

+ Champion engineering best practices, emphasizing quality, maintainability, and security.

+ Advocate for an exceptional user experience, ensuring our solutions are intuitive and impactful.

+ Manage & mentor a team of 5-6 engineers, conduct performance reviews, career development planning, and foster a culture of growth, accountability, and continuous improvement.

+ Promote knowledge sharing across teams and influence broader engineering strategies

+ Identify & address technical debt, providing cost-benefit analysis and prioritization recommendations.

+ Conduct insightful code reviews, helping elevate team-wide technical capabilities

What You Bring:

+ 8+ years of experience in developing eCommerce applications or enterprise software.

+ Expertise in both frontend and backend development, with strong architectural knowledge.

+ Experience leading distributed engineering teams, including coaching, conducting performance reviews, and fostering career growth.

+ Strong proficiency in cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS

+ Deep understanding of scalability, performance tuning, caching, and security best practices.

+ Strong database expertise, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis.

+ Hands-on experience with containerization and DevOps tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.

+ Knowledge of authentication & authorization frameworks (OAuth, JWT, SAML, SSO)

+ Experience with microservices architecture, and event-driven systems (Kafka, AWS SNS/SQS).

+ Familiarity with test-driven development (TDD), automated testing frameworks, and code quality tools.

+ Ability to troubleshoot production issues, optimize application performance, and implement robust monitoring solutions (New Relic, Prometheus, Datadog, AWS CloudWatch).

+ Passion for mentoring engineers and cultivating a collaborative development culture

Tech Stack You’ll Work With:

+ Back-end: Go, Java, PHP

+ Front-end: TypeScript, Angular, NgRx/RxJS, Playwright

+ Databases: Relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL Datastores (Redis, Elastic, etc)

+ DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub (version control & Actions), SonarQube, Docker, New Relic, DataDog

+ Cloud Services: AWS (EC2/ECS, RDS, CloudFront, S3, Lambdas, and many others) • Collaboration Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Zoom, Slack, Office 365

Why work for us?

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.

The pay range for this position is between $124,000- $180,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

McGraw Hill recruiters always use a “@mheducation.com” email address and/or from our Applicant Tracking System, iCIMS. Any variation of this email domain should be considered suspicious. Additionally, McGraw Hill recruiters and authorized representatives will never request sensitive information in email.

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Publishing/Printing

Location

Remote, Remote

Job Type

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Full Time

Company ID

695

Job REQ #

5568

\# Positions

1

Start Date

20250502

End Date

20250603

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About the Company

At McGraw Hill, we believe that our contribution to unlocking a brighter future lies within the application of our deep understanding of how learning happens and how the mind develops. It exists where the science of learning meets the art of teaching.

Educators have been and always will be at the core of the learning experience. The solutions we develop help educators impart their knowledge to students more efficiently. We believe that harnessing technology can enhance learning inside and outside of the classroom and deepen the connections between students and teachers to empower greater success.

By partnering with educators around the globe, our learning engineers, content developers and pedagogical experts are developing increasingly open learning ecosystems that are proven to improve pass rates, elevate grades and increase engagement for each individual learner while improving outcomes for all.

Why? Because learning changes everything.

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