About the position
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. The Payments Infrastructure pod manages all aspects of payment processing, financial transactions, and third-party integrations on a global scale. We ensure the payment platform remains operational, support diverse global payment methods, and continuously modernize integrations to enhance efficiency and reliability worldwide. In this position, you will work with Teachable’s US-based teams as well as Hotmart employees based in Belo Horizonte and São Paulo.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on experience building production web applications in an agile, startup environment.
- Proficiency using Go or Ruby.
- Experience working with systems at scale utilizing microservices, AWS services.
- Interest in learning or exposure to event-based architecture.
- Team player mentality: high collaborative, documentation-focused and recognizing 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.
Nice-to-haves
- Payments providers, commerce experience
- Experience working with systems at scale utilizing microservices, AWS services.
Benefits
- Base salaries will be reviewed at regular intervals throughout the year, typically following performance review cycles currently conducted annually or in conjunction with a promotion.
- This role is open to candidates who can work hybrid in our NYC office 1-2 days a week.
- Teachable operates as a remote-first culture to give employees added flexibility.
- Teachable holds in-person events throughout the year for bonding, strategic alignment, goal-setting, and celebrations.
- Teachable encourages individuals from a broad diversity of backgrounds to apply for positions.
