Compensation Overview

What is the role?

We’re looking to bring on a Sr. Software Engineer for our Student Engagement pod, responsible for creating deeper engagement between students and creators. In this role, you’ll be able to have a direct impact on the learning journey of our students by building products and features that foster deeper community and learning.

What You’ll Do:

• Write secure, efficient, and high-quality code that adheres to best practices.
• 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.
• Read and write meaningful documentation.
• 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.
• Align work with customer value by using feedback and analytics to understand feature impact.
• Balance priorities and seek guidance when needed to make informed decisions.

About You:

• 4+ years of hands-on experience building production web applications in an agile, startup environment.
• Strong proficiency in Ruby/Rails or Python.  Bonus points for Golang experience.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Comfort with performance optimization, analytics, and observability.
• Team player mentality: highly collaborative, documentation-focused, and able to recognize 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.

Additional Details:

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 bi-annually or in conjunction with a promotion.

• This role is open to remote candidates in the U.S.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. 
• For this role, the base salary range is $140,000 to 160,000. Total compensation also includes a competitive benefits package and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). A salary offer will be determined by a number of factors including experience, skill level, education, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay and compensation programs regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay.