Golang Job: Principal Software Engineer (USA Remote)

100% REMOTE (Must be U.S. based)

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft, and ProctorExam.

Turnitin has offices in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. Come join us, and let's make change together.

As a Principal Software Engineer you will be required to be a hands-on backend developer. You will be primarily responsible for analyzing requirements, brainstorming ideas and software design and carrying out the development work. You will be expected to consider aspects like performance, scalability, latency, cost effectiveness and efficient memory management when developing features. Ability to work across cross-functional teams, partner with Architects, collaborate with Product Managers and other leads and mentor junior developers is highly desirable.

Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Knowledge/Experience:

• 10+ years experience writing robust web/SaaS applications in Java

• Strong knowledge of functional programming and object-oriented design and implementation, and RESTful API design and implementation.

• Extensive experience with software development best practices (e.g. design patterns, test-driven development, code profiling, debugging).

• Practical experience in cloud technologies and frameworks (we use AWS and its native services such as RDS, SQS, SNS, S3 etc.)

• Experience working with relational databases (we use Postgres) and Caching systems (we use Redis).

• Experience with container and clustering technologies (we use kubernetes).

• Experience with CI/CD tools (we use Jenkins)

• Ability to balance working on multiple priorities

• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues.

• Experience in working within an Agile model (particularly Scrum).

Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Knowledge/Experience:

• Familiarity with Golang, Python, modern JavaScript frameworks such as React/Angular/ES6

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
• Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.

Global Benefits

• Flexible/hybrid working
• Remote First Culture
• Health Care Coverage*
• Tuition Reimbursement*
• Competitive Paid Time Off
• 4 Self-Care Days per year
• National Holidays*
• 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
• Paid Volunteer Time*
• Charitable contribution match*
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement/Home Office Equipment*
• Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
• Parental Leave*
• Retirement Plan with match/contribution*

• varies by country

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad

At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!

Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, creed, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital or veterans status.