Lead Software Engineer — Full Stack Development

We are looking for founding team members who are passionate about scaling access to high-quality, accredited education in Computer Science by using the latest research in learning science, collaborative learning, and AI to make online learning with instructors more effective and accessible than traditional classroom teaching.

As a part of our initial team, you'll have autonomy, ownership, and accountability as well as equity stake in the company. You will be an inspiring leader and communicator, a self-starter with a bias for action, and committed to building not only a world-class product, but also a world-class organization.

I'm Vishal Goenka. I led several products at Google for 10 years. Earlier I built a product and team from scratch at a startup that was acquired by Google. I also advise entrepreneurs in early stage startups. Read our founding story.

You’re a good fit for this role if you have:

• 7+ years of professional experience with building and maintaining consumer products with a proven track record. Bonus if you have worked in education.
• Strong front-end and back-end development skills.
• Experience with building products from scratch and scaling them to a broad audience.
• Led and mentored a medium to a large-size team of strong software engineers.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science. Bonus if you have formal training in learning science or human-computer interaction as part of your undergraduate or graduate degree.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, self-driven, self-directed, and viewed by colleagues as a mentor or guide. Experience working at a startup is highly desirable.
• Passion for transforming access to high-quality education in Computer Science for secondary and post-secondary students.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to lead cross-functionally.

Your responsibilities:

• As a founding team member, you will be an important anchor of our engineering organization, helping us define culture, process, and the technology foundation.
• Execute the product vision. You will own the process and the result and work closely with the executive team and other teammates, leveraging their expertise and driving alignment.
• Define the technology stack and build mobile and web applications using modern frameworks.
• Grow our engineering team and set a culture of mentorship for new recruits
• Be hands-on. You will lead, manage, build, and ship products with limited resources.