Job Description
Company DescriptionWhen 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 DescriptionTurnitin 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.
QualificationsRequirements:
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 InformationTotal 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 provide a safety net for the challenges that life presents from time to time. In our Remote-First approach to collaborating, you are also able to work the way that best fits your style and situation – whether that be remote, in one of our offices/rented spaces, or hybrid.
Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.
Our Values underpin everything we do.
Customer Centric – We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by
putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
Passion for Learning – We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
Integrity – We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
Action & Ownership – We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
One Team – We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
Global Mindset – We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.
Global Benefits
Flexible/hybrid working
Remote First Culture
Health Care Coverage*
Tuition Reimbursement*
Competitive Paid Time Off
4 Self-Care Days per year
National Holidays*
2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
Paid Volunteer Time*
Charitable contribution match*
Monthly Wellness Reimbursement/Home Office Equipment*
Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
Parental Leave*
Retirement Plan with match/contribution*
* varies by country
Seeing Beyond the Job Ad
At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad.
We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!
Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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