Software Engineer II - Back-end

Summary

Join Teachable's dynamic team as a Software Engineer and contribute to enhancing student-creator engagement. You will build and improve products and features fostering deeper community and learning. This role involves writing secure, efficient, and high-quality code, developing scalable and reusable code, and identifying areas for improvement. You will collaborate with team members, adapt to challenges, and prioritize features based on customer feedback. The position is remote, based in Brazil, with a CLT contract paid in BRL. Teachable offers a remote-first culture with occasional in-person events.

Requirements

• 2+ years of hands-on full-stack experience building production web applications in an agile, startup environment
• Proficiency in Ruby on Rails, Go, or any backend languages
• Proficiency in JavaScript, React, and CSS
• Familiarity or willingness to work in a full stack capacity
• An appreciation for iteration, performance measurement, and optimization
• 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
• Who upholds Teachable Product Engineering values, including working as part of a diverse team
• Team oriented
• Trust
• Bias for action
• Continuous improvement
• Quick iteration
• Solve customer problems
• Outcome oriented

Responsibilities

• Write secure, efficient, and high-quality code that adheres to best practices, such as encryption of sensitive data and input validation
• Develop scalable and reusable code that promotes efficient development, such as creating reusable libraries and components
• Identify areas for improvement in the codebase and take ownership of small-to-medium-sized systems, such as fixing bugs and optimizing performance
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus points for TypeScript and NextJS

Benefits

• 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!