Software Engineer II (mid-level)

As part of Teachable’s Ecosystems team, you will focus on reducing creators’ time spent on manual tasks and enhancing platform functionality through third-party tools, automation, webhooks, 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?

We’re looking to bring on a Software Engineer II with full-stack (back-end leaning) or back-end only experience who is curious, action-oriented with a growth mindset to join our team.  If you are back-end only you will have an opportunity to become full stack and learn more on the front-end, business-need dependent.
You will be responsible for writing, testing, and deploying Ruby code. You will help break down epics into smaller user stories and tasks. Participating in team sprint rituals (stand-up, planning, refinement, retro). On our teams, everyone has the opportunity to share ideas, bring new solutions, and discuss them with other well-experienced engineers. We expect all team members to contribute to our collaborative team culture. 

In this role, you’ll be able to have a direct impact on projects in an area that is customer-focused, using creativity to navigate through ambiguity. You will partner with a product engineering team of engineers, Product Designer and Product Manager. 
You will report to the Engineering Manager.

We are hiring talented engineers in Brazil. 

You'll be working on a team of U.S. and Brazil-based technologists. This contract is CLT and paid in $BRL. 

In this role you'll: 

• 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.

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.

• Work on remote, distributed teams
• Worked with teams based in different countries
• Knowledge of React and Next.js, or other front-end frameworks 

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. Base salaries will be reviewed at regular intervals throughout the year, typically following performance review cycles currently conducted annually or in conjunction with a promotion.