About the Role
Full Stack Developer, IHP
Location: Remote – Nationwide, USA
Full-time
Job Description:
For more than 80 years, Kaplan has been a trailblazer in education and professional advancement. We are a global company at the intersection of education and technology, focused on collaboration, innovation, and creativity to deliver a best-in-class educational experience and make Kaplan a great place to work.
The future of education is here and we are eager to work alongside those who want to make a positive impact and inspire change in the world around them.
Instrumental in ensuring the product meets the current needs of customers while remaining compliant with minimal downtime. Development of new features on the front-end and back-end of our medical simulation system and contributing to the design and implementation of our next generation product.
Primary/Key Responsibilities
- Lead the solution design and architecture for new features and enhancements, ensuring modular, scalable, and maintainable codebases.
- Define best practices for full-stack development, API design, and system performance optimization.
- Drive architectural improvements, identifying and addressing technical debt and inefficiencies.
- Oversee cloud infrastructure strategies, ensuring resilient, high-availability deployment across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Guide and mentor engineers in design patterns, cloud architecture, and full-stack best practices.
- Service and support internal customers which include IHP sales, product, customer service, operations, billing and accounts teams, providing customized reports, datasets, fixes and updated features where necessary, developing customized solutions, datasets, and features.
- Work with teams to understand/document current medical simulation system and identify non-compliant and inefficient modules
- Ensure minimal downtime and high system reliability through proactive monitoring and automated solutions.
- Drive the development of new, accessible features on the front-end (React, Angular) and back-end (Node.js, Java, Ruby).
- Architect and implement high-performance APIs, microservices, and serverless components to support scalable medical simulations.
- Lead code and design reviews, ensuring quality, security and compliance
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning capabilities and real-time analytics into simulation platforms.
Minimum Qualifications
- Associates degree in computer science related field
- 6+ years experience in full-stack development to include the following levels of concurrent experience: 4 years of backend experience in any languages, preferably in node.js, java, ruby, 4 years of frontend experience in react or angular, 2 year experience working in cloud based hosted services (AWS, Azure, Google)
- Ability to thoroughly understand all the i-Human Patient products from a technical, deployment and user perspective.
- Strong experience in microservices architecture, API development, and cloud-native design.
- Deep understanding of scalability, security, and performance optimization in distributed systems.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to drive cross-functional alignment and technical decisions.
- Proven ability to balance long-term architecture goals with immediate business needs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or other related program