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Job type full-time
Full job description
At instride, we’re pioneering a new approach to workforce educationOur mission is to enable employers to provide life-changing education to their employees in partnership with the highest-quality global academic institutionsWe unlock business and social impact to transform companies and people for the future.
We believe that a company’s richest resource is their employees, and that investments in people yield the highest returns for individuals, businesses, and society as a wholeThat’s why every instride employee is eligible to enroll in 1,700+ online certificate and degree programs through our step forward programUnlike traditional tuition reimbursement programs, instride covers your tuition upfront, regardless of your course of study, degree type, or schoolThe step forward program, along with instride’s best-in-class employee benefits, are available to all employees from the day they join instride.
Read further to see how you can be part of the movement to drive businesses and society forward through life-changing, best-in-class workforce education.
Role overview this role will lead the architecture, platform, development, and sustainment of our platform and ecosystemThe ideal candidate would have previous experience building web and mobile digital products for large enterprises, a proven track record of building applications, services, infrastructure, and helping the growing needs of our business and engineering teams, and a passion for our missionReporting to the manager of engineering.
Responsibilities
Deep experience being a thought-leader and problem solver on multiple teams, covering projects large and small
Provide hands-on technical leadership for a team of engineers, lead and mentor cross-functional team of engineers (fullstack) to build, deliver and sustain a world class learning services platform
Be able to lead and be a technical subject matter expert for platform architecture discussions and decisions
Help define, contribute and support the wider technology strategy
Work closely with sre, release engineering, security, product, ux, project management, business development, customer success, growth marketing and executive teams to meet business needs
Ensure engineering best practices, and implement tools and/or frameworks for software development, agile, security, accessibility, compliance, performance, hadr, etc.
Experience leveraging a variety of open source technologies, working with cloud services, leveraging modern ui frameworks (angular, react) , backend (restful apis, node.js, python, microservices, serverless, etc)
Ideal profile
7+ years software engineering experience delivering large scale, global, high traffic and highly available consumer-facing web applications/mobile apps
2+ years experience in javascript programming language and node.js tech stack
3+ years experience in web application development and react framework is a plus
You have a bias for simple, scalable, extensible architectures that solve real business needs
5+ years experience delivering projects using agile methodologies
5+ years experience collaborating with and working in cross functional teams including product, user experience, project management, etc.
While one of the foremost technical members of the organization, you work well in a team of mixed skill levels and can communicate well with non-technical colleagues
You are used to helping more junior members of the team improve their skills and are committed to continuous learning yourself
Ensure use of engineering best practices for development, development, agile, security, accessibility, compliance, performance, hadr, etc.
Experience delivering saas solutions for large enterprise customers
Experience across the stack leveraging a wide variety of open source technologies, cloud services (aws/azure/gcp), enterprise-grade system design
Be able to lead and be a technical subject matter expert for platform architecture discussions and decisions
Proactively communicate and manage expectations with your leader and team
Excited by the challenge of building a world-class business that delivers not only high revenue growth and compelling roi, but also has a meaningful impact on society
Exposure to higher education institutions through direct experience and/or passion for the education space
Comfort with ambiguity and a “no job too small” startup mentality
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent relevant work experience
Instride is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employerWe do not discriminate based upon race, ethnicity, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, medical condition, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the city of los angeles’ fair chance initiative for hiring ordinance relating to an applicant`s criminal history.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employmentPlease discuss your requested accommodation with our hrbp.
Effective november 1, 2021, all new hires must be fully vaccinated against the covid-19 virus unless they have been granted a reasonable accommodationIf you are offered employment, this requirement must be met by your date of hire, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved by the people & talent team in writing.
If you are looking to apply for one of our remote opportunities please know that instride is only able to employ candidates from the following states.
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