McGraw Hill
Sr Software Engineer (Full Stack)
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $120K - $152K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ October 28th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Join the Content Authoring team responsible for managing educational content for students and teachers.
- Design and implement complex software solutions, lead technical projects, and mentor junior team members.
- Collaborate with developers and product managers, participate in Scrum ceremonies like standups and backlog grooming.
- Promote best practices in engineering and software design to ensure quality, usability, and maintainability.
- Champion the customer's voice to build products with strong customer empathy.
- Required skills include Angular, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), Node or GoLang, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
- Preferred skills include PHP backend development and infrastructure experience with AWS, ECS/Docker.
- Experience with deployment and automation tools like CircleCI, Terraform, and monitoring tools such as New Relic and PagerDuty.
- Minimum of 5 years in product or enterprise software development with proven technical abilities in testing and deployment.
- The position is remote for U.S. applicants, with preference for candidates in the Pacific Time zone, and offers a salary range of $120,000 to $152,000 annually plus possible bonuses and benefits.
Sr Software Engineer (Full Stack) Full Description
Overview
Impact the Moment
At McGraw Hill we create best-in-class, next-generation learning platforms that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide every day. We design intuitive and effective tools and experiences that maximize teachers' time and students' learning. And we do all of this in a supportive and collaborative environment where we work alongside brilliant colleagues, touch lives around the world, see the difference our hard work makes, and continue our paths of lifelong learning
Your Impact on Team
We are looking for an experienced Sr Software Engineer (Full Stack) to join our Content Authoring team. This team enables MHE authors to create, manage, and serve the content that goes out to students and teachers. This role will involve designing and implementing complex software solutions, leading technical projects, and mentoring junior team members. This individual will have good knowledge of Node.JS, PHP and the AWS ecosystem.
This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States. Preference will be given to those in the Pacific Time zone.
What You'll Do:
- Working closely with developer and product manager teammates developing applications and services to support business and engineering initiatives
- Participating in standup, backlog grooming, demos, and other Scrum meetings.
- Collaborating with engineers on your team on feature development and bug fixes
- Promoting engineering and design best practices within your team to ensure quality, usability, stability, performance, resiliency, and maintainability of your software
- Being a champion of the customer's voice to ensure our products are built with customer empathy at the forefront
- Sharing your knowledge and practices with other teams
What can you bring to the role?
- 5+ Years of experience in product or enterprise software development
- Proven technical abilities in testing, monitoring, performance tuning, and deployment pipelines
- Exposure to the full software stack including Frontend, Backend / API, Databases, and Infrastructure.
- Passion for engineering and design best practices
- Focus on application quality and testing practices like unit, integration and e2e testing, code coverage analysis and automated software inspection
- Strong sense of customer empathy and a commitment to delighting customers
- Ability to work across functional and domain boundaries to deliver software on time and with quality
Required skills
Front End:
- Angular
- HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (ES6+)
- Accessibility
- Testing
Back End:
- Node or GoLang
- MySql and Postgres
Preferred skills
Back End:
- PHP
Infrastructure:
- AWS
- ECS/Docker
Deployment:
- CircleCI / Terraform (heading towards GitHub actions)
Monitoring and Alerting:
- New Relic / PagerDuty.
Why McGraw Hill?
The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively designing content that will build the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights.
The pay range for this position is between $120,000- $152,000 annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.
McGraw Hill recruiters always use a "@mheducation.com" or "@careers.mheducation.com" mail address and/or from our Applicant Tracking System, iCIMS. Any variation of this email domain should be considered suspicious. Additionally, McGraw Hill recruiters and authorized representatives will never request sensitive information in email.
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