Senior Full Stack Engineer - Core
Teachable’s mission is to “empower Creators to monetize their expertise.” Our online platform enables individuals and small businesses (our “Creators”) to build, host and sell online courses and coaching. (Examples of our Creators and their offerings can be found here, here and here.) We generate revenue in two ways: (1) from monthly or annual subscription fees (SaaS) paid to us by our Creators for access to the platform; and (2) from transaction fees calculated as a percent of the value of courses and services sold by Creators through our platform. We currently support over 40,000 Creators who have collectively sold over $1 billion in courses and coaching on Teachable.
We're looking to bring on a full stack engineer on our Student Experience pod, which is responsible for delivering solutions that give our creators the flexibility, reliability, control, and insights for fulfilling engaging student experiences in a scalable way.
Our development teams are structured into cross-functional Product Engineering pods each consisting of 4-6 engineers (including an engineering lead or manager), a Product Manager, a Product Designer Read up on engineering here in How We Code at Teachable.
Lastly, this role reports into our Senior Engineering Manager.
We’re looking for someone:
- With 3-5+ years of hands-on experience building production web applications, ideally in an agile, startup environment
- With experience building and maintaining scalable and reliable backend service using Ruby on Rails or similar object-oriented programming languages such as Python, Java, Scala, etc.
- Who has demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
- With experience building and maintaining scalable applications, databases, and distributed systems
- Who advocates for performance measurement and optimization
- Who enjoys solving complex technical problems in both new and legacy codebases
- Who embodies the “leave the code base better than how you found it” mentality
- Who has played a key role in designing and implementing technical projects with multiple team members with varying experiences
- Who has contributed to architecture discussions to drive technical decisions on your team
- Who is humble, collaborative, service-oriented and a fast learner
- Who upholds Teachable Product Engineering values, including working as part of a diverse team
In the role, you will:
- Collaborate with Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and QA engineers to build high-quality products
- Contribute to the technical design and architecture of services, databases and applications across the organization
- Execute on our product development roadmap to drive the progression of our stack and our team at large
- Write simple, clean, high-quality, well-tested software that delivers user value
- Seek out ways to bring in new perspective to our design, coding and testing best practices as well as supporting review processes (i.e. design, code, postmortem)
- Participate in the team’s on-call support rotation
- Contribute and shape the overall culture and collaboration practices of the team
Teachable is an instructor-focused platform that empowers creators to build and sell online courses and coaching on any topic-from iOS development to watercolor painting to card tricks. Instructors using our platform have collectively earned more than a billion dollars to date.
Since our founding, we've raised more than $12.5 million from top venture investors and were acquired in March of 2020. Teachable is now a part of the Hotmart group, an international startup, based in Brazil, with over 1300 employees worldwide. Hotmart's mission is to help creators earn a living from their passion.
We're growing rapidly, with triple-digit year-over-year growth, and are continuing to build a diverse team of top-notch talent. We won't hold you back from reaching your full potential at Teachable; you'll have the freedom to be an integral member of our tight-knit team, with great benefits and perks. Your work here will directly impact hundreds of thousands of online educators, entrepreneurs, and creatives.
Teachable is an instructor-focused platform that empowers creators to build and sell online courses and coaching on any topic-from iOS development to watercolor painting to card tricks. Instructors using our platform have collectively earned more than a billion dollars to date.
Since our founding, we've raised more than $12.5 million from top venture investors and were acquired in March of 2020. Teachable is now part of Hotmart Company, a global tech group focused on the Creator Economy, with over 1,300 employees in 8 countries (Netherlands, USA, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, Colombia, France and UK). Hotmart´s mission is to help creators make a living from their passions, using digital products to entertain, help and instruct their audiences.
We're growing rapidly, with triple-digit year-over-year growth, and are continuing to build a diverse team of top-notch talent. We won't hold you back from reaching your full potential at Teachable; you'll have the freedom to be an integral member of our tight-knit team, with great benefits and perks. Your work here will directly impact hundreds of thousands of online educators, entrepreneurs, and creatives.
Teachable operates under a hybrid work model, meaning we give our employees the flexibility to work from home or from one of our offices at their leisure.
Benefits:
Comprehensive Health, Dental, & Vision benefits with options covering up to 100% of monthly premium
Generous Vacation, Personal, and Sick Time
Parental leave, 16 weeks fully paid after three months of service
4% 401(k) with match after three months of service
Supplemental student loan repayment assistance or a professional education stipend
Tax-free commuter benefit
Conference budget
50% gym & wellness match
Headspace subscription
$250 Donation Match Program
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