At Skillshare, thousands of teachers earn significant income by producing educational content, and millions of students utilize our platform to learn new skills. The ability to seamlessly receive that income and successfully transact on the platform is a huge part of enabling the success of our community, and our business.

We’re excited to welcome a Senior Engineer to join our newly-formed Payments team and build upon our current system to ensure reliability, scalability, and accuracy as we continue to grow.

What you'll do:

• Build out our payments processing and financial systems
• Ensure our systems are fault-tolerant and resilient – even at high volume
• Expand our ability to provide a secure, welcoming, and relevant payment experience as we continue to scale internationally
• Work closely with our product, finance, and data teams to ensure accurate accounting and seamless data collection

Why we're excited about you:

• You’re an experienced back-end engineer with a proven history of building out complex payments systems at scale
• You take pride in being meticulous and thorough – no detail slips through the cracks
• You have a strong understanding of accounting principles
• You’re ready to work with an existing code base, and can pick up new languages as needed.

Why you're excited about us:

• Impact: Payments are at the heart of our business growth, and you’ll play a key role in ensuring we’re set up to succeed.
• Growth: You’ll have the opportunity to wear a lot of hats and take on more responsibility over time.
• Our team: We have a passionate, talented team that is a lot of fun to work with.
• Our mission: We’re doing work that matters – connecting lifelong learners around the world and empowering them to pursue their creativity.
• Flexibility: We believe that doing your best work means living a full life. That means different things for everyone, so we optimize for trust, invest to support remote teams, have an unlimited vacation policy (with a required minimum!), and encourage work-life balance.

About Skillshare:

Skillshare is an online learning community whose mission is to connect curious, lifelong learners everywhere – and, in so doing, build a more creative, more generous, and more prosperous world. Today, our community has grown to millions of members who come to Skillshare to learn creative and entrepreneurial skills, network with peers, and even teach a class themselves. We are backed by Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, Amasia, Spero Ventures, and Burda Principal Investments.

Skillshare is committed to building a diverse team that reflects a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We work to ensure a consistent interview process, fair compensation, and inclusive work environment for all.