Senior Software Engineer I (L4)

What is Teachable?
Teachable is trusted by creator-educators around the world to grow their impact and income. From online courses and communities to memberships and downloads, Teachable's digital learning products help creator-educators drive meaningful connection and sustainable revenue. With industry-best ecommerce tools, easily toggled on directly within the platform, creators can confidently maximize their earnings, while getting paid directly by their audience. Teachable's unmatched focus on the student learning experience also ensures creators can make a positive and influential impact on their communities-entirely on their own terms. Today, tens of thousands of creator-educators use Teachable to share their knowledge, reaching millions of students around the world. To learn more, visit teachable.com.
Are you ready to join a dynamic, cross-cultural team at an exciting turning point in our company's journey? Now part of the global Hotmart Company portfolio, whose platforms have helped creators earn more than $10 billion, Teachable continues to take the creator economy by storm as a true industry leader. Together, Teachable and Hotmart are delivering market-leading products that prioritize creator control and flexibility, alongside meaningful partnership and support from our team. If you have big ideas, relish the chance to challenge convention, and deeply believe in the power of creators to shape the future, we want you on our team!
About your team The Creator Engagement pod's goal is to to support a creator's experience on Teachable to host and sell content to end users at scale. We want our creators to find early success on our platform by enabling them to start building high-quality products with ease, and support their ability to grow their own businesses and sell to a variety of customers. This year our pod has a new focus to support customers who sell bulk licenses to business users.
In this position, you will work remotely with Teachable's US-based teams. We are hiring talented engineers in Brazil.
This is a CLT contract that pays in $BRL.
What is the role?
We're looking to bring on a Senior Software Engineer I with full-stack experience who is curious, action-oriented with a growth mindset to join our Creator engagement team. You will be responsible for writing, testing, and deploying Javascript and Ruby code. Breaking 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.
What You'll Do:

• 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:

• 4+ 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. Bonus points for TypeScript and NextJS.
• Fluency in English
• 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

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!
Teachable encourages individuals from a broad diversity of backgrounds to apply for positions. We are an equal opportunity employer, meaning we're committed to a fair and consistent interview process. Please tell us in your application if you require an accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job.