Senior Software Engineer (C++ Angular) (USA & UK Remote)

Company Description

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, Ouriginal and ProctorExam.

Turnitin has offices in Australia, India, Indonesia, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Sweden, 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.

Job Description

Turnitin is looking to grow our engineering team responsible for developing and supporting our desktop application used to deliver a software-based assessment experience to students worldwide. We are seeking C++ developers eager to solve challenging problems while maintaining quality, performance, and security. In this role, you’ll be working on various aspects of our codebase with support from top-notch colleagues. Our work requires a strong understanding of algorithms, experience with desktop application development, and working with multiple languages and technology stacks, primarily C++ and JavaScript.

We use Kanban, an agile process, for our day-to-day work and project management. Our team is distributed across multiple time zones (US to UK), collaborates closely with our DevOps organization, and takes pride in the software we release. Unit and integration tests are essential, and code ownership means we are the team on call if issues arise. You’ll be working with people who love their jobs, relish challenges, and, most importantly, enjoy working together. You will gain experience working at a leading company using the latest technologies and have a direct impact on our users worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on position which requires 90-95% of writing code.
• Add new features to and maintain existing code.
• Design and build new services that add customer value
• Improve stability and monitoring of existing workflows
• Work with services running in concert at large scale
• Provide guidance in technical design and development activities.
• Ensure future success and stability through code reviews and automated testing.
• Work closely with software architects and database/operations engineers on system infrastructure and design.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience of designing and developing applications using C++
• 1+ year of cloud development w/AWS preferred
• Extensive experience with software development best practices (e.g. design patterns, test-driven development, code profiling, debugging).
• Effective technical and cross-functional communication (product, design, operations).
• Strong work ethic, “self-starter”, endless improvement, eager learner

Preferred:

• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 1+ years of experience with Angular/React/Javascript
• Experience developing and deploying applications utilizing Win32 APIs
• Experience in working with geographically distributed teams including the USA & European countries

Additional Information

The expected annual base salary range for this position is: $111,000/year to $185,000/year. This position is bonus eligible / commission-based.
As a Remote-First company, actual compensation will be provided in writing at the time of offer, if extended, and is determined by work location and a range of other relevant factors, including but not limited to: experience, skills, degrees, licensures, certifications, and other job-related factors. Internal equity, market and organizational factors are also considered.

Total Rewards @ Turnitin
Turnitin maintains a Total Rewards package that is competitive within the local job market. People tend to think about their Total Rewards monetarily — solely as regular pay plus bonus or commission. This is what they earn in exchange for what they do. However, Turnitin delivers more than just these components. Beyond the intrinsic rewards of making a difference in the lives of educators, administrators, learners and researchers around the world, and thriving in an organization that is free of politics and full of humble, inclusive and collaborative teammates, the extrinsic rewards at Turnitin include generous time off and health and wellness programs that offer choice and flexibility and provi