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Sr. Software Engineer

McGraw Hill

1 Positions

ID: 6236

Posted On 11/06/2025

Job Overview

Overview

Build the Future

Do you enjoy testing the limits of possibility? At McGraw Hill, our **Senior Software Engineers** drive progress and help build the future of learning. If you have the passion and technical expertise to thrive in an innovative and agile environment, we want to learn more about you.

Your impact on the team

McGraw Hill _SIMnet_ is a course management and learning solution that enables learners to achieve their full potential. In this role, you will improve automation and efficiency of your teammates, leading to improvements in the strength of _SIMnet_ as a product, and enabling your team to increase its velocity as we build new features and expand the SIMnet brand. By combining strong analytical skills and technical acumen, you will contribute to a holistic product vision that energizes your teammates and delights your customers.

As an education innovation company, we're proud to play our part by inspiring learners around the world. If you bring your curiosity, we'll help you grow in a collaborative environment where everyone shares a passion for success.

Even if you are not currently looking for a change, we encourage you to apply now and speak to the hiring manager to learn about the opportunity, the diverse team, and culture.

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

What you’ll need to be successful

+ 5+ years building responsive, accessible, high‑performance web products, including 2+ years leading projects or initiatives.

+ Ability to operate across the stack (frontend, backend, databases, infrastructure) and navigate ambiguity.

+ Cloud‑native development experience at scale (containers, serverless, microservices) on AWS.

+ Hands‑on experience with observability platforms (e.g., New Relic) to monitor and improve product health.

+ Strong customer empathy: translate user needs into measurable outcomes and iterate based on feedback.

+ Passion for engineering excellence and an ownership mindset: you take responsibility for quality and reliability.

+ Effective communication and collaboration: mentor teammates and elevate technical standards.

+ Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with modern tools and practices.

What you’ll be doing

+ Contribute to the design and development of responsive, accessible web-based learning tools used globally by learners and educators.

+ Own end‑to‑end delivery: discovery, technical design, development, automated testing, deployment, and production support.

+ Collaborate with product and engineering teammates to translate requirements into scalable solutions and iterative roadmaps.

+ Shape architecture and standards; improve SDLC with infrastructure‑as‑code and monitoring‑as‑code.

+ Promote best practices to ensure quality, performance, security, resiliency, and maintainability.

+ Build actionable observability (dashboards, alerts) in New Relic; define SLOs and drive operational excellence.

+ Contribute to a culture of extreme ownership, share knowledge across teams and mentor other engineers.

Required technical skills

+ Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience; 5+ years in product/enterprise software development.

+ CI/CD (e.g. GitHub Actions): design and operate testing and deployment pipelines; feature flags; blue‑green releases; artifact management (e.g., Artifactory).

+ Quality: unit, integration, and end‑to‑end testing; code coverage; static analysis; automated code quality checks.

+ Backend/API (e.g. Node.js):

+ RESTful service design, versioning, idempotency, rate limiting, pagination, robust error handling.

+ Authentication and authorization (OAuth2/OIDC, JWT); security best practices (CSRF, input validation).

+ Performance and resilience: profiling, caching, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers; response streaming; real‑time messaging (WebSocket).

+ Front End:

+ React, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS/Less; Bootstrap; state management (query string vs Redux & alternatives).

+ Accessibility (WCAG) and front‑end performance practices (code splitting, bundle analysis).

+ Build tooling and bundling.

+ Cloud & infrastructure:

+ AWS (ECS, Lambda, Containers); networking fundamentals; IAM and secrets management.

+ Infrastructure as code (Terraform or CloudFormation).

+ Observability:

+ Logging, metrics, tracing; New Relic dashboards and alerts; SLOs and error budgets; on‑call readiness

+ Databases:

+ SQL and/or MongoDB; data modeling.

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 $120,000- $140,000 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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Job Details

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Publishing/Printing

Location

Remote, Remote

Job Type

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Full Time

Company ID

695

Job REQ #

6236

\# Positions

1

Start Date

20251106

End Date

20251210

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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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