Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company is hiring a
Back-end Software Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Back-end Software Engineer and help us with our ongoing growth and expansion! As a full-time contractor based in South America, you will be part of a highly collaborative environment where engineers actively participate in the conversation on what and how to build systems and solutions that matter to learners worldwide.

Requirements

• Experience with working with one or more of the following: Golang, Ruby on Rails
• Experience with deployment systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy)
• Familiarity with AWS Services (e.g. RDS, Lambda, EC2, et cetera)
• Familiarity with the Linux operating system and command-line tools
• Understanding of OO design, algorithms, and data structures
• Aptitude to quickly learn new languages and technologies as necessary
• Understand and appreciate that Nerdy is an apolitical company and that we can have the largest impact if we are united in our focus on helping people learn and not divided or distracted by advancing unrelated causes
• Computer Science or related degree preferred
• Fluent in English

Responsibilities

• Write performant, maintainable code that is easy to read and well-documented
• Write automated tests to thoroughly validate the correctness of your code
• Deploy large-scale web applications
• Have a focus on quality, and operate iteratively to get from good to better
• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotation; we all own our code end-to-end from development to deployment to operations
• Come ready to learn from some of the best and brightest in the industry
• Work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic and fast-moving team
• Be effective in a team environment working with fellow engineers, product management, and design

Benefits

• Competitive Pay (USD)
• Fully Remote Position
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Free Learning Membership for you and your household (1-1 tutoring hours, unlimited use of on-demand services, and access to our online classes)
• Work for a leading U.S.-based learning technology company
• A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help transform how the world learns!
• A fun, collaborative, and team-oriented work environment with plenty of training and a feedback-rich culture