Assoc Software Engineer

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.

HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com

Working in the Engineering team within our Technical Services Group, the Intern Software Engineer is a handson coding role, working as a key member of a cross-functional agile team, alongside other Developers, Designers, Quality Engineers and Product delivery specialists. We’re working on the development of our next generation learning platform and content solutions utilising the latest web technologies. You will gain experience in all aspects of our technical solutioning process from feature design, rapid prototyping, implementation, and deployment - to maintenance and architectural improvement.

You will work and gain experience with modern Web technologies such as ECMAScript6, ReactJS, Node/NPM, Java Spring, Jenkins, GIT.

Specifically

• You will work collaboratively within a cross-functional, agile development team
• You will contribute to the collective ownership & delivery of feature design, development and maintenance.
• You will gain a professional understanding of project tracking and agile development methodologies

What you’ll need

You will possess good coding capabilities, have a growth mindset, are a natural problem solver, focussed on quality, with the ability to communicate enthusiastically, clearly and concisely to other Engineers as well as with other HMH functional teams.

Skills you will require

• 0 to 3 years' experience in a relevant software development role 
• Good understanding of OOO concepts, Data Structure and Algorithms.
• Working knowledge of modern JavaScript language features, frameworks and libraries
• Good Grasp on Java backend technologies. Knowledge of Spring is bonus
• Some experience delivering great User Experiences is a bonus
• Knowledge of/Experience using Testing Frameworks also a bonus
• Some knowledge of Agile teams and methodologies
• An understanding of the software development lifecycle and tools including Source Control, Rapid Prototyping, Continuous Integration

The Information Technology organization is transforming to realize our mission: Become a leader in HMH’s digital transformation, and as a strategic partner, innovate and deliver highest value, competitive advantage solutions across all corporate and business functions. Our ambition is to be a digital leader through innovation and develop and deliver leading edge technology such as robotic process automation and artificial intelligence to solve some of HMH’s greatest operational business challenges. Our professionals will have business relevant skills to connect our HMH partners to technologies that propel the businesses to deliver the greatest value for HMH and our customers.

We are building a team of IT professionals with an insatiable appetite to learn, a relentless focus on customer service, a technological curiosity toward future possibilities, and a creativity in solving business challenges with leading technologies. Our team will find ways to work together, create a sense of community where it’s safe to take risks and learn together, develop our careers, and all have an opportunity to work on new technologies. We will work together, learn together and have fun together. As a team, we will lead HMH’s digital transformation.