Software Engineer II, Backend - Integrated Solutions
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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?
- 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
- 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.