About NCSA College Recruiting

NCSA College Recruiting is the world largest college recruiting platform providing studentathletes content tools coaching and access to a network of 40000 college coaches across 37 sports. NCSA is an online experience of IMG Academy the worlds leading sports education brand and one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation in 2024 and Top Remote Places to Work in Academy provides a holistic education model that empowers studentathletes to win their future preparing them for college and for life. Additional oncampus and online experiences include:

• Boarding school and camps via a stateoftheart campus in Bradenton Fla.
• Online coaching via IMG Academy with a focus on personal development through the lens of sport and performance

Position Overview

TheStaff Software Engineerwill be responsible for leading and implementing the technical direction of a Platform Engineering team and collaborating with peers to set direction and drive technology choices across the Platform. This is a handson individual contributor role that will require working on a crossfunctional team and skillfocused team. Software Engineering is responsible for the development maintenance performance and monitoring of secure highly available platform applications and services. Software Engineers design implement and maintain technology used by Product and Platform Engineering teams to develop reliable resilient and performant software through the use of shared Platform applications. Reporting to the Software Engineering leadership the role requires deep expertise in the design implementation and continuous improvement of software applications.

Position Responsibilities

• Expertise with full stack development and distributed systems.
• Sufficient experience to teach others about 12factor applications and modern development practices.
• Expertise using languages like Python Go Typescript and React.
• Able to make system design tradeoffs based on realworld experience with the CAP Theorem.
• Comfortable with complexity and learning in wicked environments.
• Deeply understand logging monitoring automated provisioning and continuous deployment.
• Familiar with Incident Command System for managing outages and security incidents.
• Know how to use configuration management and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform.
• Experience with container orchestration using tools like Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
• Significant knowledge of and experience with relational databases (e.g. Postgres) and nonrelational data stores (e.g. Redis ElasticSearch OpenSearch).
• Able to build successful generations of software to manage and deploy highly available reliable and performant cloud infrastructure platform and product at scale.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• 7 years experience in fullstack or backend Software Engineering.
• Writes loosely coupled code with excellent test coverage; using automation for tests builds and deployment; implementing monitoring and logging proactively.
• Design and build applications and services reading from and writing to Kafka or Kinesis event streams.
• Comfortable in architecting solution with a full stack approach from front end to back end.
• Build systems used to automate performance monitoring troubleshooting and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with the Product and Platform team to craft technical solutions that meet internal and external customer needs.
• Work with Infrastructure Engineering teams to adapt standard infrastructure platform components to release code with increasing volume and velocity in a selfservice fashion.
• Forecast application utilization and identify potential bottlenecks or optimization opportunities.
• Support critical applications in a fastpaced environment.
• Research and intervene to quickly and efficiently pinpoint and resolve problematic system issues.
• Review and improve teammate output providing detailed and thoughtful feedback.
• Define and extend code management processes to improve development team efficiency.
• Ability to communicate with product and stakeholders on requirements; able to mentor more inexperienced engineers effectively.
• Provide 24x7 oncall support on a rotating basis.

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