Software Engineer II, Backend - Integrated Solutions
Published on November 18, 2024
Studio apartment beginnings
Late one night in 2013, our founder Ankur Nagpal, put the finishing touches to what would become the predecessor of Teachable. A recent graduate of UC Berkeley and the newest resident of New York, Ankur had been instructing a course in marketing created through another course platform, when he decided that he could build something better. Something with more customization tools and a more profitable payment system.
It was called Fedora. And as soon as its homepage was open for business, we started to welcome scores of experts in feng shui, handpanning, email marketing, coding, and sourdough baking, ready to craft their knowledge into beautiful courses.
The art of building a business
Just two years later, our team of one in a studio apartment in Williamsburg had grown to a team of 15 coders, marketers, and finance experts in an office in Manhattan. Valued at 8 million dollars, and growing each day in sign-ups and knowledge, it was time for a new name. And Teachable, became Teachable.
What is Teachable?
Teachable is trusted by creator-educators around the world to grow their impact and income. From online courses and communities to memberships and downloads, Teachable's digital learning products help creator-educators drive meaningful connection and sustainable revenue. With industry-best ecommerce tools, easily toggled on directly within the platform, creators can confidently maximize their earnings, while getting paid directly by their audience. Teachable's unmatched focus on the student learning experience also ensures creators can make a positive and influential impact on their communities—entirely on their own terms. Today, tens of thousands of creator-educators use Teachable to share their knowledge, reaching millions of students around the world. To learn more, visit teachable.com.
Are you ready to join a dynamic, cross-cultural team at an exciting turning point in our company’s journey? Now part of the global Hotmart Company portfolio, whose platforms have helped creators earn more than $10 billion, Teachable continues to take the creator economy by storm as a true industry leader. Together, Teachable and Hotmart are delivering market-leading products that prioritize creator control and flexibility, alongside meaningful partnership and support from our team. If you have big ideas, relish the chance to challenge convention, and deeply believe in the power of creators to shape the future, we want you on our team!
About your Team
As part of Teachable’s Integrated Solutions team, you will focus on reducing creators’ time spent on manual tasks and enhancing platform functionality through third-party tools, automation, and improvements in our Authentication and Public API. In this role, you’ll have a direct impact on enabling the Teachable platform to seamlessly integrate with our creators’ business tools, allowing them to spend more time on what matters.
What is the role?
As a Software Engineer II (Analyst), you will be responsible for writing secure, scalable, and reusable code while proactively identifying improvements in the codebase. You’ll take ownership of our microservices, ensuring quality and using metrics to assess production behavior. You’ll collaborate effectively with teammates and product teams, contribute to planning and prioritization, document work, and support a positive team culture.. You will work closely with cross-functional teams from Hotmart and Teachable to evolve our code, as well as collaborate with product managers, designers and other developers.
In this position, you will work remotely with Teachable’s US based teams as well as Hotmart employees based in Belo Horizonte and São Paulo. We are hiring talented engineers in Brazil.
In this role, you'll:
- Collaborate with Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and QA engineers to build high-quality products with third-party integrations
- 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 perspectives to our design, coding and testing best practices as well as supporting review processes (i.e. design, code, postmortem)
- Contribute and shape the overall culture and collaboration practices of the team
- Quickly understand documentation and utilize testing techniques, such as unit testing, integration testing, and stress testing, to ensure high-quality code
- Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders, such as providing regular status updates and actively seeking feedback
- Adapt to roadblocks and proactively resolve issues, such as debugging and troubleshooting
- Align work with customer value by using feedback to prioritize features
- Balance priorities and seek guidance when needed to make informed decisions
What You'll Bring:
- 2+ years of hands-on experience building production web applications in an agile, startup environment.
- Proficiency in using modern programming languages (Golang, Ruby, etc.) in a production environment in a backend or fullstack capacity
- Interest in learning or exposure to event-based architecture
- Team player mentality: highly collaborative, documentation-focused and recognizing how to balance asynchronous communications and virtual meetings
- A passion for solving complex technical problems in both new and legacy codebases.
- A mindset of leaving the codebase better than how you found it.
- Experience collaborating with multiple team members with varying experience levels to design and implement technical projects.
- Ability to work and problem-solve independently.
- A humble, collaborative, customer-focused, and highly curious approach to problem-solving.
Additional Details:
At Teachable, we are committed to providing fair and competitive pay (using market data to inform our pay bands), rewarding high performance, and ensuring all employees have the opportunity and ability to impact Teachable’s overall company value. Salaries will be reviewed at regular intervals throughout the year, typically following performance review cycles currently conducted bi-annually or in conjunction with a promotion.
While Teachable maintains our NY office for local employees to use, we operate as a remote-first culture in order to give our employees added flexibility. In order to maintain connection and create a community beyond the screen, Teachable holds in-person events throughout the year, where employees and teams can come together for bonding, strategic alignment, goal-setting, and celebrations!
Teachable encourages individuals from a broad diversity of backgrounds to apply for positions. We are an equal opportunity employer, meaning we're committed to a fair and consistent interview process. Please tell us in your application if you require an accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job.