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What do we do?

Teachers Pay Teachers is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the world’s first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources with over 2/3 of US teachers using the site.

The New York Times called the phenomenon we lead “A Sharing Economy Where Teachers Win”.

Our Challenge

Our data pipeline is currently owned by our Search and Personalization team. As our data engineering needs grow in scope, we would like to build a dedicated data engineering team. Members of this team will be able to focus on improving our data pipeline and helping our product teams build data-backed features for our users.

Our Tech

Our data stack is built in Python with Airflow and PySpark. We pull our data from Google Analytics, BigQuery and MySQL databases and use the results for recommendation and search products,Teacher-Author dashboards and business intelligence.

Your Contributions

There are many areas where you can contribute as a Data Engineer, from performance and reliability to strategy and design.

As we process ever-increasing amounts of data, we will encounter performance problems and you will need to help optimize how we use our tools.

Data changes. Code changes. Sometimes these changes cause failures. You will improve how we test and monitor our pipeline so we find out sooner when something doesn’t work.

The impact of our data pipeline is dependent on how we apply it. You will collaborate with data scientists and product engineers on how to best use the pipeline and identify new enhancements to the system.

In the long term, you will have a hand in developing our strategy for data engineering and be a critical part in helping to realize it with incremental steps and progressive improvement.

Your Background

  • >1 year of professional experience building and operating data pipelines

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Jillian Silver
Engineering Manager
CAREER JOURNEYS WELCOME
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Silver was not familiar with a tech lead role when she started at TPT as a Senior SWE 3 years ago, but when she saw the impact it had on developing products and teams, she knew it would be the right fit. To ensure she was ready when a position opened up, she created custom OKRs with her manager. With support from tech leads and the resources to level up on systems architecture, she quickly grew into the position, solving people and technical problems. Jillian has since been promoted to engineering manager, utilizing her experience to lead an innovative team of engineers.
Silver was not familiar with a tech lead role when she started at TPT as a Senior SWE 3 years ago, but when she saw the impact it had on developing products and teams, she knew it would be the right fit. To ensure she was ready when a position opened up, she created custom OKRs with her manager. With support from tech leads and the resources to level up on systems architecture, she quickly grew into the position, solving people and technical problems. Jillian has since been promoted to engineering manager, utilizing her experience to lead an innovative team of engineers.
TPT doesn't expect us to be on a straight and narrow path when it comes to our careers. I personally don't have it all figured out, so I am happy to know TpT will be there while I do.
Randi Gray
Senior IT Manager
JOIN A COMMUNITY
Where individuals can spark real change
Gray, who is a member of resource groups for women, Black employees and parents, has seen the outsized contributions these groups have had on the company culture. Whether celebrating Kwanzaa and Galentine's Day or pushing the needle forward on D&I initiatives, Gray said TPT's ERGs "allow us to share our unique experiences, be our authentic selves and build a community that has contributed to a culture of honest communication."
Gray, who is a member of resource groups for women, Black employees and parents, has seen the outsized contributions these groups have had on the company culture. Whether celebrating Kwanzaa and Galentine's Day or pushing the needle forward on D&I initiatives, Gray said TPT's ERGs "allow us to share our unique experiences, be our authentic selves and build a community that has contributed to a culture of honest communication."
Being a part of TPT’s ERGs has reminded me that my purpose is higher than me. I am a part of a community that can move the needle forward with respect to guiding business decisions by being able to provide a perspective that promotes more inclusivity.
Raptor Dzuricsko
Senior Software Engineer
INNOVATION WITH IMPACT
Tackle complex challenges to change lives
Raptor Dzuricsko’s role at TPT is a multifaceted one. In addition to coding, debugging and troubleshooting, he’s currently working on making the team’s software delivery and rollbacks more reliable, transparent and effective — which will ultimately offer a better experience to educators. While there are many reasons why technologists should be excited to join Dzuricsko’s team, he said it all boils down to three key factors: “cool open-source tooling and features, having a significant impact on making teachers’ lives easier and working with thoughtful people.”
Raptor Dzuricsko’s role at TPT is a multifaceted one. In addition to coding, debugging and troubleshooting, he’s currently working on making the team’s software delivery and rollbacks more reliable, transparent and effective — which will ultimately offer a better experience to educators. While there are many reasons why technologists should be excited to join Dzuricsko’s team, he said it all boils down to three key factors: “cool open-source tooling and features, having a significant impact on making teachers’ lives easier and working with thoughtful people.”
I’ve been lucky to have really thoughtful managers and teammates here, and I can’t stress that enough.

What are TPT (formerly Teachers Pay Teachers) Perks + Benefits

TPT (formerly Teachers Pay Teachers) Benefits Overview

Building for Diversity and Inclusion is one of our core company values here at TPT. A huge part of this is making TPT a place where people feel like they can thrive, regardless of what stage of life they're in. This means we have a competitive parental leave policy (three months for new parents to bond with their little one), 20 days of PTO, 7 wellness days to look after your physical and mental health, as well as fun perks like catered lunches in office 3x weekly.

As a company rooted in the belief that teachers must be at the heart of everything we do, we also make time twice a year for teacher-visits, either virtually or going into local classrooms in the tri-state area to shadow teachers in action -- to remind ourselves of the importance behind our mission.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Open door policy
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
TPT works with LifeLabs to conduct interactive unconscious bias workshops throughout the year, which help build context and skills that support in making TPT an inclusive place to work for all.
Diversity employee resource groups
Employees are welcome to join our many Employee Resource Groups! These groups support an array of different cultures & communities, and often host virtual or in-person events outside of working hours.
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
At TPT, we are proud to offer all full time employees access to a Headspace subscription and Eden Health, an online health concierge with access to one-to-one talk therapy.
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
TPT lead a Ukraine Donation Campaign, where the company met employees dollar for dollar in contributing to various organizations dedicated to providing support to Ukraine.
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Company sponsored family events
TpT sponsors an Employee Resource Group that caters to working parents, which hosts monthly meetings and events throughout the year! Additionally, we host Bring Your Child To Work Day annually.
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Outside of wellness, personal days, and COVID-19 specific time off, TPT also offers 20 days of PTO per year, with 5 days available for roll-over.
Paid volunteer time
Each full-time employee is given 5 additional personal days each year, used for voting and volunteering.
Sabbatical
Eligible employees get 5 weeks of paid sabbatical after their first 5 years of working at the company.
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Teams across the company have regular sponsored off-sites to promote time together. Company-wide, we also have monthly Happy Hours, and 4 main events: Field Day, Camp TPT, Picnic and Holiday Party.
Free snacks and drinks
The office kitchen is always fully stocked with snacks, sweet treats, fruit, drinks, coffee and tea.
Some meals provided
TPT provides a GrubHub allowance for in-office lunch options on Mondays, Tuesdays, & Thursdays, for those working from our HQ.
Company-sponsored happy hours
TPT has monthly Happy Hours (both in-person and virtual). Activities can vary; recently we had a virtual happy hour hosted by JamEvents for a game of "Guess My Sketch," with sponsored bevvies.
Recreational clubs
We have an undefeated softball team, and have also sponsored volleyball, dodgeball, and are always taking new suggestions!
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
TPT provides a one-time $400 WFH stipend to full-time employees (both remote and hybrid), to ensure all have what they need to work effectively from home.
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
TPT hosts Snack & Learns ~2x monthly, to promote employees coming together to discuss work and goal progress, company updates, and learn from each other 🧠
Promote from within
Mentorship program
TPT's mentorship program aims to build a more inclusive environment by building relationships between TpTers, providing career growth and development opportunities through formal mentorship.
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Teams across TPT devote time each week to learning. Our Eng org blocks Friday afternoons for "Eng Learning Fridays," where engineers are given a free block of time to pursue learning opportunities.
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