Working at MIT offers opportunities, an environment, a culture and benefits that just aren’t found together anywhere else. If you’re curious, motivated, want to be part of a unique community, and help shape the future then take a look at this opportunity.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, edX-Discovery Engineering Team, to join a team that is responsible for scaling and building out a new discovery platform for edX learners. The work will help learners around the world find and succeed in courses on edX, helping them achieve their goals. Responsibilities include designing, developing, deploying, and supporting scalable software systems; collaborating with product management, UX, and data science to understand business problems and identify solutions; building and maintaining operationally viable solutions throughout the software life cycle; committing to owning code and supporting the customer-facing environment; promoting teamwork, researching cutting edge technology, and supporting a vibrant innovative work atmosphere; and supporting the open source community. 

EdX is an open source educational software startup venture between MIT and Harvard.  It is adding strong full stack software engineers to join the team in building the world's leading learning destination. 

Job Requirements

REQUIRED: three years of full-stack development experience with HTML, CSS, modern JavaScript frameworks, and Python (or other server-based programming languages); demonstrated skill building service-oriented architectures; ability to problem solve and drive projects with loosely defined requirements; and experience working in an agile development environment.  Job #17527-P

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