Senior Software Engineer

Description

We are looking for talented software engineers to help with our ongoing growth and expansion! Varsity Tutors is a live learning platform that connects students and professionals with personalized instruction to achieve any goal. To date, students have accessed more than three million hours of live instruction on the platform. Experts are available to meet in person or through the company’s award-winning online and mobile platforms.

We take great pride in the quality of our code, our processes, and our services. We have a complete CI/CD software lifecycle and an evolving services-oriented-architecture hosted in AWS. We operate in a highly collaborative environment with Product and Design to build experiences that matter to our customers. At Varsity Tutors, engineers do not just write code, they actively participate in the conversation on what and how to build the systems and solutions that matter to our customers. If you love your customers as much as we do, we'd love to hear from you.

About Nerdy:

Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY), the parent company of Varsity Tutors, is a leading platform for live online learning, with a mission to transform the way people learn through technology. The Company’s purpose-built proprietary platform leverages technology, including Machine Learning and AI (Nerdy AI Learning Products - Press Release), to connect learners of all ages to experts, delivering superior value on both sides of the network. Nerdy’s comprehensive learning destination provides learning experiences across 3,000+ subjects and multiple formats—including one-on-one instruction, small group classes, large format group classes, on-demand study support, and adaptive self-study. Nerdy’s flagship business, Varsity Tutors, is one of the nation’s largest platforms for live online tutoring and classes. Its solutions are available directly to students and consumers, as well as through schools and other institutions. Learn more about Nerdy at https://www.nerdy.com/. 

AI at Nerdy:

AI has been central to Nerdy’s ability to improve its product quality and enhance personalization. Today, AI powers the company’s ability to identify the highest quality Experts, assess Learners' foundational knowledge, and helps ensure the right Expert-Learner match, among many other use cases. The latest AI advancements have created new opportunities to rapidly develop transformative experiences involving the real-time generation, and the ability to deliver live human interaction and personalized learning at scale - and we’re building a team to make this happen.

 

Qualifications

• Experience with Ruby on Rails

• Experience with highly concurrent languages such as GoLang, Erlang or Scala
• Experience with deployment systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy)
• Experience with highly concurrent languages such as React, Javascript, HTML and CSS
• Familiarity with AWS Services (e.g. RDS, Lambda, EC2, et cetera)
• Familiarity with the Linux Operating System and command-line tools
• Understanding of OO design, algorithms, and data structures
• Aptitude to quickly learn new languages and technologies as necessary
• Computer Science or related degree
• This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

 

Responsibilities

• Write performant, maintainable code that is easy to read and well-documented
• Write automated tests to thoroughly validate the correctness of your code
• Deploy large-scale web applications
• Have a focus on quality, and operate iteratively to get from good to better
• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotation; we all own our code end-to-end from development to deployment to operations
• Come ready to learn from some of the best and brightest in the industry
• Work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic and fast-moving team
• Be effective in a team environment working with fellow engineers, product management, and design 

 

Varsity Tutors Leadership Principles:

Relentless Focus on Customers * Comfort with Ambiguity * Ownership * Simplify * Intellectual Curiosity * Build Teams * Think Big * Insist on High Standards * Bias for Action * Build Trust * Go Deep * Have Conviction * Deliver Results * Are Right, a Lot

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary plus Equity in the company
• Healthcare Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Pet