at Huron Consulting Group in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
The Opportunity
Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes.
Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change.
You’ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability.
Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.
Position Summary
As a Software Engineer, you will participate in all aspects of software development (design, development, testing, maintenance, support) of the business’s applications. This is a hands-on development role responsible for design, implementation, and life cycle management of the product built/configured on the Huron platform.
You will also have the opportunity to work with one or more development teams that are responsible for web applications, able contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of applications and technologies owned by the assigned team, be delivering quality client and server-side code, markup, and CSS as needed, while adhering to best practices and standard. In addition, you’d be expected to attend all team meetings while making meaningful contributions and provide regular updates (via tools, meetings, communication, etc.) to the team lead of assigned teams.
You’ll be part of the Huron Global Products team with opportunities to collaborate, learn and grow while impacting some of the most prestigious higher education and research institutions.
Let’s get to work – together.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Apply Software Engineering competencies to design and develop software products.
- Solve complex technical problems with help from Lead Engineers.
- Interact with key stakeholders from Product Management, Implementation and Support teams.
- Develop in-depth knowledge of business processes facilitated by our software products.
- Create and execute a complete set of unit test cases.
- Interact and pair program with other Software engineers on the team to build high quality products.
- Troubleshoot deployment and resolve environmental issues in a timely manner across multiple projects.
- Work closely with the offshore development and QA team to ensure quality standards are being met.
- Be part of the scrum for dev team.
- Support and update existing internal applications and services.
- Improve and implement modular, well-documented, responsive, and accessible Typescript frontend components.
- Authoring developer documentation and release notes.
Qualifications
+ U.S. work authorization is required
+ This position can be Full Time Remote
+ Four-year technical degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Information Systems or equivalent professional experience
+ 3 + years of relevant experience
+ Highly proficient in .NetCore and Visual Studio
+ Familiar with NextJS/React/TypeScript for front end development
+ Familiarity in AWS Cloud Services like CloudFront, Cognito, Lambda, SNS, SES, Elastic Search, Event Bridge, S3, etc.
+ Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability and experience in design for generality and abstraction.
+ Experience in developing microservices in Azure or AWS
Preferred:
+ Strong computer science skills and experience
+ Unit testing experience with NUnit or other testing frameworks
+ Familiarity with developing and using Rest API
+ Familiarity with version control systems such as GIT
+ Experience working with Postgres Aurora, DynamoDB, Elastic Cluster a plus
+ Familiar in Linux
+ Familiar with npm packages
+ Authoring developer documentation and release notes
+ Familiarity with agile development methodologies
+ Ability to work independently or in a group with minimal supervision
Preferred experience:
+ REST and developing RESTful APIs using the OpenAPI standard.
+ HTML 5, CSS, typescript, React, NextJs
+ Aurora Postgress, DynamoDB
+ Azure DevOps
+ .NET Core
The estimated base salary for this job is $95,000 – $130,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $106,400 – $153,400. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.
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Posting Category
Education
Opportunity Type
Regular
Country
United States of America
At Huron, we’re redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client’s challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work…together.
Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron.
Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.
Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.
Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pr
