AWS Cloud Software Developer

At Zidyia, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers. We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome. And that's where you come in:

We’re hiring engineers, who are passionate about technology and education, to help build and enhance the Zidyia LMES experience for students and educators. This effort is a top company priority and a great chance to make an impact to our users as well as the company.

Like our customers, we value a learning culture and expect our engineers to work closely with product and support to build the best possible solutions, not just write code to a spec.

Check us out on Github: www.github.com/Zidyia-LMS

What we look for:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience (and interest) in different languages and frameworks. Skilled full stack
• developer, or an expert back-end developer open to growing towards the full stack.
• Demonstrated high level of programming, debugging, product architecture, DevOps and quality control expertise.
• Experience working on cloud-based, high-traffic production applications.
• Ability to solve complex problems requiring in-depth analysis.
• High levels of proactivity.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability and desire to work in an open and team-oriented environment.
• BS in Computer Science or related degree preferred.

What you will do:

• Join one of DevOps teams who closely collaborate on building, operating, and owning the LME engine in Zidyia.
• Use React and NodeJS to write key features to improve teaching and learning.
• Learn and use AWS services like EC2, CloudFront, SQS, Lambda, S3, and DynamoDB to
• craft cloud-native and serverless architecture and provide world-class uptime and
• performance.
• Use CI/CD (test automation, deployment workflow) to improve quality and deployment.
• Lead initiatives that drastically improve the quality of the system you work with.
• Coach and mentor other engineers.

• We are remote full-stack engineers with experience building web-scale services in a loosely coupled but highly integrated system.

• We are a mixed stack and polyglot team with a deep commitment to quality and to using the right tech for each problem we solve.

• We work with geographically diverse teams in the UAE and across the globe

• We use NodeJS, React and our platform runs on AWS