Remote Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Software Engineer at Mentava, a company that aims to accelerate human achievement through education by building software for independent K12 learning. The role involves reimagining the future of education, building games optimized for learning pace, improving application performance, and collaborating with the founding team. The candidate should be a strong supporter of gifted education, love learning new things, thrive on uncertainty, care about user and developer experience, and have good communication skills.

Requirements

• Strong supporter of gifted education
• Ship quickly
• Love learning new things and mastering new problem spaces
• Thrive on the uncertainty of early stage product development
• Can identify the most valuable area to direct your effort
• Makes pragmatic near-term decisions for ambitious long-term goals
• Care deeply about user experience
• Care deeply about developer experience
• Care deeply about software quality and performance
• Good communication skills, both spoken and written. You will write documentation!
• Believer in ownership, autonomy, and accountability
• Great teammate and collaborator

Responsibilities

• Re-imagining the future of education
• Building games that optimize for pace of learning, not mindless engagement
• Building experiences to educate and delight 2-year-olds
• Improving application performance by profiling
• Collaborate with the rest of the founding team to rapidly ship and iterate
• Helping define our core values for effective software development

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous founder
• Game development experience
• Mobile development experience

Benefits

• A chance to show policymakers what kids can really do
• Early seat on the next hot vertical
• Experience of taking a product from 0-1
• No politics
• Fully remote company (North American working hours required)
• Team alignment around a single mission
• Competitive comp
• Generous equity
• Employee-friendly equity terms
• Macbook Pro, 5K display and accessories
• Stipend to set up your home office
• Professional development budget