At Ellucian, we're motivated by a mission. Higher education is facing profound change. Shifting demographics and cultural perceptions, combined with declining support and rising expectations, are forcing colleges to do more with less. That's where we come in.
As true believers in the power of education to transform lives, we're dedicated to helping all our customers thrive-not just survive-in these challenging times by transforming their institutions from the traditional paper-based colleges of yesterday to the agile, connected campuses of today. From cloud solutions built on world-class infrastructure to powerful analytics that drive successful planning, we lead the industry in building enterprise-class solutions tailored to institutions around the world.
Our passion and commitment for learning and continuous improvement drive us internally, too. From professional development to flexibility and work-life balance, we give our global employees the tools they need to succeed so we can all grow together.

About the opportunity

Ellucian is seeking an innovative Software Developer that is a hands-on individual to be an integral part of the design, build out and adoption of an exciting new higher education solutions. Working closely with product architects and product management this individual design and create new products.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, development, test and implement high quality enterprise software, as a member of a creative, agile development team creating solutions that exceed customer expectations
• Ability to work in a fast-paced delivery focused environment
• Support customer adoption of new solutions
• Engage in continuous learning and adoption of new concepts, technologies, and functionality
• Work with ambiguity and changing priorities yet always focused on the end result
• Oriented towards problem-solving and analyzing technical and functional impacts
• Demonstrate ownership from specification review to final testing
• Actively participate within agile development ceremonies (sprint reviews, planning, scrums)
• Frequently learn new technologies/libraries/concepts and share knowledge with your colleagues
• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Architects, Developers and fellow Designers to determine the optimum user interface design, workflow, and functionality of software products

• 2 - 4 years of professional experience

• Degree in computer science, software engineering or similar course of study
• Highly motivated self-starter with advanced capability to quickly learn, and work with new technologies and complex technical environments, including a variety of databases and operating systems
• Familiar with common data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented and basic functional idioms
• Experience building web services and/or web applications

• Experience with C#, JavaScript, React.js or another modern JavaScript framework
• Working knowledge of at least one relational database

• Working knowledge of REST, JSON, XML
• Experience with Agile software development practices such as XP, Lean Agile, Scrum and Kanban

• Working knowledge of git or any other source control system

• Demonstrated ability to author highly-readable code
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment

• Experience with full-stack architecture and development
• WCAG Accessibility Standards
• Internationalization (i18n)
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or equivalent)
• Microservices architecture
• Exposure to DevOps tools and processes

• Higher education domain knowledge