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Software Engineer III (Backend)

McGraw Hill

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ID: 6160

Posted On 10/14/2025

Job Overview

Overview

Impact the Moment

At McGraw Hill we create best-in-class, next-generation learning platforms that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide every day. We design intuitive and effective tools and experiences that maximize teachers’ time and students’ learning. And we do all of this in a supportive and collaborative environment where we work alongside brilliant colleagues, touch lives around the world, see the difference our hard work makes, and continue our paths of lifelong learning

Your Impact on Team

The Insights and Personalization Engineering team is looking for experienced, smart, and adaptable **Senior Software Engineer (Backend)** to join the team. The key trait is thought leadership through problem solving: This individual must exhibit independent creativity, a curiosity to research new technologies and methodologies, and a pervasive desire to dig into complex technical issues while respecting timelines and team commitments. This position will focus on building our capability to deliver personalization features on a scale for products on our Open Learning platform.

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

What You’ll Do:

+ Use your interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate effectively with product sponsors and senior leadership in engineering and business

+ Analyze business requirements and identify possible gaps, ambiguities, missing scenarios, etc.

+ Design and implement sound engineering solutions that meet the business need

+ Work with a distributed team to solve problems quickly and collaboratively

+ Present a passion for building high-quality, user-friendly, scalable, reusable infrastructure, tools, pipelines and microservices

+ Leverage technologies to automate workflows, continuous testing, and monitoring of data pipelines

About You:

+ You have demonstrated software delivery experience with a distributed product & engineering team

+ 3+ years working with languages such as Go, Java, or Node.js

+ You can work in a fast-paced software release environment, where you deliver production-grade (zero downtime, fault-tolerant, etc.) software daily for a system with millions of users

+ You can contribute to the full software development life cycle – including writing application code, writing unit/integration/automation tests, documentation and performance engineering

+ You are excited about building scalable applications processing large amounts of data

Our Stack includes:

+ Python, Scala, GO

+ Github Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS

+ Aurora, Databricks

+ Amazon Web Services – S3, RDS, SQS, Kafka

+ Github

+ JIRA, Confluence, Zoom, Slack

Experience with following technologies is required:

+ RESTful Web Services (experience producing and consuming REST services)

+ Data pipelines in Databricks

+ Relational database design concepts (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

+ Cloud Technologies (preferably Amazon Web Services – ECS, EKS, RDS, Elasticsearch, S3)

+ Code Quality and Code Review

+ Infrastructure automation using Terraform or similar tools

+ Build/deploy tools (including GitHub Actions)

+ Git

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.

The pay range for this position is between $115,000 - $135,000 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 ” or " @careers.mheducation.com” mail 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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Categories

Publishing/Printing

Location

Remote, Remote

Job Type

Employee

Full/Part

Full Time

Company ID

695

Job REQ #

6160

\# Positions

1

Start Date

20251014

End Date

20251114

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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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