Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Emergent Tree Education, Inc. is seeking an Associate Cloud Software Engineer to contribute across its SaaS application platform. The role focuses on building user-facing features, developing APIs, troubleshooting application and production issues, maintaining automated tests, and supporting AWS cloud operations, security, infrastructure, and internal technical systems.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement new user-facing features for our SaaS applications
- Build, adapt and extend APIs and related HTTP-based services to support application functionality
- Investigate customer issues and system alerts to identify root cause, and then implement effective fixes that improve UI/UX, performance, and reliability
- Update and extend automated regression tests to cover new/updated application functionality
- Maintain and refactor existing code as needed for clarity and scalability
- Help manage and improve our AWS environment (compute, networking, security, monitoring)
- Participate in strengthening our security posture and operational reliability
- Use SQL and AWS tools (e.g. CloudWatch, Athena) to investigate production data issues and validate application behavior
- Contribute to infrastructure improvements, Linux system administration and serverless automation efforts
- Assist non-technical colleagues with occasional software or device issues
- Help manage, leverage and secure business technology systems (e.g. G-Suite, Hubspot, MDM) as need arises
- Translate technical issues into clear explanations and solutions
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience
- • 0-5 years of professional experience; internships, coursework, and personal projects are valued
- • Strong fundamentals in programming and web technologies
- • Curiosity about how systems work
- • Strong problem-solving and communications skills
- • Eagerness to learn and take ownership
- • Strong time management and organizational skills
- • Modern JavaScript frameworks (Ember.js, Vue, React)
- • Web browser core technologies (HTML/CSS, HTTP/Fetch/REST APIs)
- • Backend API development (Java/Scala/Kotlin, Jersey/JAX-RS, jOOQ/JPA, Maven)
- • Cloud system tooling (Linux, Bash/curl/jq, Docker containers, AWS Lambda, CloudFormation)
- • Basic data query & analysis (SQL/MySQL, Excel pivot tables, other statistical tools)
- The job requires working at a computer for extended periods of time. Occasional lifting, standing, walking and carrying of light equipment may be required
- •This position does not offer employment-based immigration sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship, now or in the future.•
Benefits
- Primarily work remotely
- Receiving structured mentorship and gradually taking on broader responsibility across the platform
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