**Principal Technical Consultant** **Bogota, Colombia** *** **ONLY CVs SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH WILL BE CONSIDERED** **The Opportunity**: Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. The company’s mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals. We believe in the power of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. As we expand globally, we are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of not only our hiring practices, but who we are as a company. The Software Solutions Team is focused on advancing learning, fueled by data informed decision making. Anthology's Global Client Experience team works with clients to solve a wide variety of technology challenges. Using both industry standard and cutting-edge technologies, our consultants develop innovative, custom solutions that extend, enhance, and integrate Blackboard’s enterprise products. As a Lead Developer on this team, you will play an integral role in the success of the Software Solution team within GCX Product Development. Primary responsibilities will include: - Serving as an expert in Anthology products including their architecture, functionality, and deployment methodologies - Designing and documenting development tasks within system of record and helping other team members during implementation - Serving as Sprint Planner and leader of the development project - Developing in an agile environment using web technologies - Creating REST API using OpenAPI standards - Leading in code review - Being accountable for the project unit, integration, performance, and functional testing and results of the project - Researching and experimenting with new technology that will advance future projects introducing efficiencies of overall development - Helping to create and maintain development guidelines and direction - Working with managers to estimate work tasks and level of effort within project timeline - Adhering to established delivery methodology, quality standards, and best practices - This role requires approximately 20% travel - Required skills/qualifications:_ - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent relevant educational experience - Minimum 8 years of prior relevant experience - 5+ years of software development lifecycle and associated processes - Strong skills at OpenAPI REST engineering using object-oriented JavaScript, Async event management, using Server-Side libraries and/or serverless microservice frameworks - Mastery at backend engineering using object-oriented Java - Spring, Java-Dropwizard, MongoDB/DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, and other libraries - Fluency in cloud-based loosely coupled architecture patterns and microservices design - Demonstratable understanding of web tokens, data transformations, transitions, and events driven design - Ability to incorporate user-centered design principles into the architecture and design of user interfaces - Excellent oral and written communication skills - Excellent analytical and organizational skills - Proven ability to learn new technologies as needed - Ability to work in a geographically distributed virtual team environment and to build relationships with internal and external organizations - Time management and prioritization skills; ability to manage expectations effectively when handling multiple assignments simultaneously with competing deadlines - Exceptional attention to detail, excellent work ethic and drive, great interpersonal skills, team oriented, excellent problem-solving skills - Fundamental understanding of bug tracking, versioning, and repository systems - Ability to have a flexible work schedule to meet client needs - Fluency in written and spoken English at CEF B2 level or above - Preferred skills/qualifications:_ - Experience in a client-facing consulting capacity - Previous experience in the education or knowledge management industry and with e-learning technologies - An understanding of sequence design process (waterfall) and agile software development process methods - Experience with the MEAN technology stack with a focus on AngularJS - Fluency in server-side CSS pre-processing platforms such as SASS and LESS - Previous use of standard digital tools (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite, Omnigraffle, Balsamic) - An understanding of code versioning tools like Git, Stash, Github, and Perforce - Experience with mobile optimized responsive design - Fundamental understanding of key usages of Confluence, Jira Bug Tracking, Jira Agile (GreenHopper), versioning and repository systems - A basic knowledge of image authoring tools (crop, resize, performing small adjustments on an image) and familiarity with tools like Gimp or Photoshop - A working knowledge of server platforms (Linux/Unix, Windows Server 2003-2008) - A working knowledge of behavior-driven development (B