Work for Academic Benchmarks

Don't just program software - design and create systems that are used throughout the education industry to help support educators and provide better learning resources and tools for students.

Senior Programmer / Technical Lead

Since 2003, Academic Benchmarks has been directly serving the K-12 education vendor community so they may better focus on serving their customers - districts, schools, teachers, and students. We've committed to deliver the industry standard identification system of metadata that enables innovation in education. We embrace our role as the trusted supplier and adviser to the most influential companies in K-12 education.

Academic Benchmarks is currently adding a new position - Senior Programmer / Technical Lead - to our growing team in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Senior Programmer will perform all phases of development analysis and design. Essential duties include designing, testing, and debugging programs and consulting with internal users and clients on program needs. The Senior Programmer is responsible for:

• Developing exceptional technology that offers clients dynamic solutions and Academic Benchmarks a competitive edge.
• Managing day-to-day project activities in order to reach project objectives.
• Problem solving technical issues that are barriers to team members executing strategy and meeting performance objectives.
• Creating satisfied clients, internally and externally, by providing superior technical consultation and guidance.

Requirements

Qualified candidates should have strong management and interpersonal skills as well as:

• 5 - 10 years of programming and web development experience,
• a Bachelors' degree in a related field or equivalent knowledge gained through work experience,
• minimum 5 years experience with web scripting languages (PERL, PHP, Python or Ruby), web 2.0 technologies (such as Web APIs, Ajax, HTML, XML and RSS) and SQL - we also prefer experience with Catalyst, jQuery, CSS, YUI, Embperl and JAVA , but is not required,
• innate ability to understand client needs and design to meet those needs
• excellent communication and people skills
• capable of working both independently and in a team environment
• keen problem solving skills with ability to handle complex issues
• project management experience

If you are interested in this exciting career with the opportunity for growth, submit your resume and salary expectations to with "Sr. Programmer" in the subject line.