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Software Engineer 5 - Senior

ApplyBoard

ApplyBoard

Software Engineering
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Posted on Oct 25, 2023

ApplyBoard simplifies the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and educational institutions on one intuitive and personalized platform. ApplyBoard is a mission-driven, hyper-growth organization. It has been attracting dedicated individuals for more than eight years who are inspired every day to break down barriers to international education and take their careers to new heights at a company that will invest in their career growth. Our six core values are our compass in our mission to Educate the World and the foundation of our unique company culture. As an organization built on a foundation of diversity, it’s important that our team members are representative of the students from more than 140 countries that we support.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for an experienced and creative Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Applications Team and help take our company to the next level!

As part of Applications, you’ll be part of a dynamic and growing team that builds and supports technology solutions for internal enterprise clients. The projects and platforms include: Automation, systems integration, backend service development, business application solutions.

What you’ll be doing every day:

  • Work with Product Managers and Business Analyst during the discovery and requirements gathering as part of a complete SDLC process

  • Design and implement business solutions along with Staff and Principal Engineers

  • Data orchestration between systems via API’s using best software engineering best practices

  • Integrating with Third Party systems (schools systems or other web apps)

  • Quickly understand platform products and how they work

  • Working with Automation Platforms such as Uipath

  • Experience leading project deliverables that meet client expectations and deadlines

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills to lead project

  • Experience coaching, mentoring and training other junior engineers

  • Create, maintain documentation, diagrams, technical docs, schemas

  • Working with stakeholders to understand their processes and provide automated solutions for their workflows

  • Work with other team members (Product Managers, Architects, QA, Devops, Data, IT) to ensure timely & quality delivery of solutions, raise technical risks and trade-offs for consideration

What you bring to the table:

  • Ability to work in a rapid-growth, fast-paced environment

  • Apply agile development principles to build organized and versatile code

  • Experience leading engineering teams delivering software solutions that meet requirements and deadlines

  • Support, fix and update existing applications to improve efficiency and support the growth of extensive software systems

  • Learn, understand and implement the concepts of Test. Implement high-quality code according to those concepts

  • Document and test code to ensure the quality of the completed work requirement

  • Avoid cumbersome solutions through diligent research, experimentation, and testing

  • Take ownership for problems and deliver consistently high-quality solutions

  • Experience normalizing, transforming and migrating data.

  • Experience building scalable APIs or specs

  • Design enhancements to improve efficiency and streamline the business process as well as the development process

  • Programming experience with C#, Java or any other backend language

  • Experience with Javascript and other frontend technologies.

Nice to have (not required):

  • Experience with Uipath or any other RPA platform

  • Experience with API Orchestration

  • Knowledge of working with Cloud infrastructure (AWS, UIpath)

What We Offer:

  • The opportunity to have an impact on a product that is positively affecting change to thousands of students lives every day

  • Working alongside a brilliant and globally diverse team based in Waterloo and Toronto

  • Great compensation and benefits package to keep you healthy and happy!

About ApplyBoard

ApplyBoard empowers students around the world to access the best education by simplifying the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process to more than 1,750 institutions across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Ireland. Headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and with an additional operational office in Gurugram, India, ApplyBoard has helped more than 600,000 students from over 150 countries fulfill their study abroad dreams since 2015.

In 2022, Deloitte named ApplyBoard one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada for the fourth consecutive year, ranking #30 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and #170 on the 2022 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list. ApplyBoard ranked on LinkedIn’s 2022 Top Startups List in Canada in 2020, 2021, and 2022 and was recognized as CIX’s Innovator of the Year 2022 and the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 Ontario Winner. In 2023, ApplyBoard India was Great Place to Work® Institute (India) certified for outstanding employee experience and workplace culture.

Thank you for your interest in joining ApplyBoard on our mission to Educate the World. Please note that only qualified applicants that have been selected for an interview will be contacted.

ApplyBoard welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.