Engineering Manager - Learn
ABOUT YOU:
As a manager on a Full Stack Web and API team at Udemy, you’ll be responsible for leading a team of developers working on improving and expanding our learner assessments, our labs and language-testing abilities, how we measure and encourage learner progress, and communication and feedback between students and instructors
You’ll be performing experiments in all these areas in an dynamic, market-based environment with literally millions of students. Developers at Udemy work in close collaboration with product owners, designers, user researchers, and other development teams at Udemy. Our most important goal is improving lives through learning, whether it’s obtaining a career-changing IT certification or it’s getting your puppy to come when called.
This work will be in our San Francisco office.
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:
- Providing hands-on technical guidance and career mentorship for team members
- Collaborating with product management and design and other engineering teams to define features for our instructors and our students
- Developing, testing, documenting, and releasing full-stack, end-to-end features for Udemy's web application that supports over 50 million students worldwide and more than 150,000 courses
- Mentoring team members in software development best practices and processes
- Planning, organizing, and getting work done in two-week sprints
- Participating in code reviews as well as post-deployment site monitoring
- Leading by example and contributing to a team culture that values quality, robustness, and scalability while fostering innovation
- Researching and evaluating new technologies that may improve our processes or code bases
WE’RE EXCITED ABOUT YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE:
- A passion for education
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Previous management or lead engineer experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Knowledge of object-oriented design and computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)
- Experience with web application development using modern framework ORMs (e.g. Django, Rails, Symfony, CodeIgniter, etc.)
- Experience with web application technologies including HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Experience with Relational Databases (e.g. MySQL) and SQL knowledge
- Experience with Python or other scripting languages such as Ruby, PHP, etc
- Knowledge of modern JS libraries/frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, JQuery, etc.)
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Knowledge of testing methods, including back-end and front-end unit and integration tests
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience with working on enterprise-level websites at a global scale
- Experience with Java, Kotlin, or any modern object-oriented language
- Experience in edtech
- Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernete, or Mesos
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Hacky sack expertise
- Passion for board games or trivia
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About Udemy
We believe anyone can build the life they imagine through online learning. Today, more than 50 million students around the world are advancing their careers and passions by exploring and mastering new skills on Udemy, and expert instructors are able to share their knowledge with the world. Through our global marketplace and our solutions for businesses and governments, we connect people everywhere with the skills they need for success in work and life. We’re a close-knit bunch that enjoys problem-solving and collaboration, and we share a serious belief in the power of learning and teaching to change lives. Udemy’s culture encourages innovation, creativity, passion, and teamwork. We also celebrate our milestones and support each other every day.
Founded in 2010, Udemy is privately owned and headquartered in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood with offices in Denver (Colorado), Dublin (Ireland), Ankara (Turkey), Gurugram (India), and São Paulo (Brazil).
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