Senior Software Engineer I

Senior Software Engineer I

Hybrid – Chennai, India 

About the Role

This role focuses on Ally, a revolutionary product that makes digital course content more accessible. As the accessibility of digital course content is becoming increasingly important world-wide, institutions must address long-standing and often overbearing challenges. Blackboard's Ally engineering team is responsible for developing industry-leading tools to improve accessibility through inclusivity, sustainability, and automation for all students.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will design, develop, and maintain features of the Ally product. You’ll also communicate and partner cross-functionally with teams in product and software development. In this role, you will work on an ethical product, using Scala for the backend and JavaScript for the frontend. You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to advancing engineering best practices on the team. We run our applications in the AWS cloud and use Git for version control. You’ll work on a distributed team, collaborating with colleagues around the globe.  

Required Skills and Experience

• 5-7 years of relevant professional experience
• Frontend development experience in Angular/TypeScript
• Familiarity with the full-cycle development process
• Experience developing, building, testing, deploying, and operating applications
• Experience working with cloud technologies
• Experiencing mentoring junior engineers
• Awareness of how distributed systems work
• Experience with backend programming languages (e.g. Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, etc.)
• Willingness to break things and make them work again
• Fluency in written and spoken English 

Preferred Skills and Experience 

• Functional programming experience such as Haskell or Scala
• Familiarity with working with AWS cloud technologies    

About Blackboard

Blackboard advances teaching excellence and unlocks the full potential of technology to deliver meaningful outcomes. We empower institutions to deepen connections between educators and learners, inspire engagement, and drive long-term academic success across the full learner journey.  For more information, please visit www.blackboard.com.  

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.    

Blackboard is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.