Technical Lead, Mobile
What We Do
At Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT), we’re unlocking the power of educator-created content. More than 2 out of 3 of U.S. teachers come to TpT every year to get teacher-tested, engaging, and rigorous materials. What began as a humble exchange for teachers looking to share lesson plans has since exploded into an education powerhouse where teachers have created more than 3 million resources for all aspects of PreK-12 education. More than five million educators worldwide (including teachers, administrators, and parents) have downloaded TpT resources more than a billion times. If you haven’t heard of TpT yet and want to learn more, just talk to a teacher about us. Or try this recent article in Forbes.
The mobile team is focused on empowering educators in the classroom using the unique capabilities of mobile devices. We specifically want to unlock mobile-first flows for our users that leverage the huge success and value of the TpT ecosystem. To this end, we’re focused on building experiences that leverage in-the-moment engagement with the content and community that TpT provides.
Role
The tech lead role is the focal point of the delivery and technical excellence we strive for at TpT. You will be responsible for helping us ship new products to users while also thinking carefully about our technology ecosystem so that it enables high development velocity with technical excellence. You understand that technical decisions are not made in a vacuum and seek to understand the product, organizational and technical constraints that determine how we build - specific technology platforms are secondary in your mind to product and team success. You will be expected to be a proactive and engaged leader for other engineers on the team and with stakeholders across the organization.
Qualities for a successful candidate
- Industry experience working on a range of mobile and full-stack technologies, with some deep experience in mobile-first technology ecosystems (native iOS, native Android, React-Native)
- Fluency in at least 2 of the following programming languages: Swift, Objective-C, Java, Kotlin, Javascript
- Experience shipping both iOS and Android apps to their respective stores.
- Comfort working with a full-stack range of technologies as necessary.
- Mentoring teammates via means like pull requests, design reviews.
- Experience leading projects of significant complexity and scale to end users under time constraints.
- A deep understanding of engineering best practices and how they specifically apply in the mobile realm: CI/CD, monitoring & alerting, test automation, etc.
- An understanding of pragmatic tradeoffs between engineering excellence and fast product iteration/discovery.
- A strong appreciation and skill for communication across the board: among engineers on the team, across disciplines, and across teams. A mature understanding of how to use communication tools to drive important decisions and engage stakeholders.
Extra Credit
- Experience working with Erlang/Elixir backend systems and with React on mobile or web.
- Demonstrated interest and background in education.
- Open source contributions
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent engineering field.