Workera, backed by Owl Ventures (the world’s largest ed-tech VC) and Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, is a precision upskilling company that enables learners and organizations to identify, measure, interpret, and develop the right Data and AI skills to realize their fullest potential today and in the future. We’re founded by Kian Katanforoosh, award-winning Stanford Computer Science Lecturer who has taught AI to over a million people, and James Lee, former VP of Global Operations at Udacity. Its chairman of the board is Dr. Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera (NYSE: COUR), CEO of DeepLearning.AI, and founding lead of the Google Brain project.
Our vision is to help humanity measurably close the skills gap to achieve its fullest potential.
We’re looking for senior and principal software engineers, with specialties in full-stack or backend. You’ll join our team and own the mission-critical effort of implementing and deploying innovative learning technologies. Since you’ll be joining a growing startup, you’ll wear multiple hats and have lots of growth opportunities. We believe that talented developers can adapt to any syntax or technology, so feel free to apply even if you don't meet all the requirements.
Here is what you'll do:
• Build products. You will build consumer-facing web applications, including frontend / UI, backend business logic, and data management.
• Take responsibility for the full software development cycle. You will be responsible for designing, architecting, developing, monitoring/maintaining services.
• Develop internal tools. You will increase the team’s technological advantage by developing internal tools to create, deploy, and maintain high-quality computerized adaptive assessments.
• Integrate our product in the ed-tech ecosystem. You’ll handle data flow between our product and other ed-tech products.
• Deploy AI services. In this role, you will work closely with our science arm to productize ML algorithms for computerized adaptive assessments and personalized learning plans.
• Create web-interfaces. You’ll work with designers and use your frontend skills to implement smooth and elegant web interfaces.
• Gamify our products. You’ll be responsible to implement gamification in our assessment.
• Deploy frontend services. Create the frontend services that the rest of the team can work with.
Here’s the background we’d like you to have:
• CS foundations. Mastery of CS foundations, including data structures, algorithms, OS, computer networks, databases, unix, and application servers.
• Backend. Hands-on experience building web applications in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g. Python, Java, Ruby, etc.).
• Front end / UX. Experience with modern JavaScript/Typescript frameworks (e.g., Vue.js, React.js, Redux, Node.js, etc.) and creating HTML/CSS code that satisfy UI/UX requirements.
• Cloud Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Tooling & Automation. Familiarity with build tooling and automation utilizing task runners, module bundlers, and linters.
• Workflow. Solid coding practices including good design documentation, unit testing, peer code reviews, and a preference for agile methods.
• Communication. You should feel comfortable having technical discussions in English with your team.
What you can get by working with us:
• Unlimited PTO plus a week off between Christmas and New Year’s.
• Collegial atmosphere.
• Innovative environment.
• Full support for home offices.
• A culture of life-long learning supported up to $3,000 reimbursement for professional development.
• Working across cultural and geographical lines alongside our offices in different parts of the world.
• Being part of a world-class technical team that’s trying to make the world more meritocratic.
• Be part of a great cause to improve lives everywhere through artificial intelligence.
• Opportunity to own high-impact engineering projects.
What's it like to work at Workera?
• High-velocity career growth. You will be joining an all-star team of industry experts, world-class technologists from top tech companies, and proven startup operators that have built large, successful businesses. Workera is backed by top-tier venture capital firms and most importantly, we’re solving a massive problem for enterprises and individuals, so your opportunities for growth and impact are unlimited.
• A company that is solving one of the most exciting interdisciplinary problems of our era. World-changing innovations often spur from interdisciplinary research and development. Workera is, at its heart, an interdisciplinary company. To create the world’s most reliable and valid skills signal powering talent development, we hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on the most challenging problems at the intersection of psychometrics, artificial intelligence, and software engineering – from developing valid and reliable computer adaptive tests, to recommending personalized learning plans to employees and organizations, and enabling business leaders worldwide to make the best strategic decisions for upskilling and recruiting.
• Diversity. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. Our team-members, like our users, transcend geography, culture, and language; what we share, collectively, is a drive to create a skills-based, more meritocratic world, and a unique ability to execute.
• A remote-friendly work environment. No matter where you reside, you’re a part of Workera. We ensure that our globally distributed employees can participate fully in our company’s activities and do their best work every day.
• Lifelong learning. As talented as our team members are, we know that everyone is a constant work-in-progress and that the best is yet to come. We support each other in our curiosity and creativity – which we pursue through thoughtful discussion, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing among a diverse set of peers and colleagues. Did someone ever tell you that world-class mentorship doesn’t exist in startups? Please send them our way!
• A culture of transparency that we carry through to messaging communication, ensuring that team members have the information they need to make good decisions.
Our vision is to help humanity measurably close the skills gap to achieve its fullest potential.
We’re looking for senior and principal software engineers, with specialties in full-stack or backend. You’ll join our team and own the mission-critical effort of implementing and deploying innovative learning technologies. Since you’ll be joining a growing startup, you’ll wear multiple hats and have lots of growth opportunities. We believe that talented developers can adapt to any syntax or technology, so feel free to apply even if you don't meet all the requirements.
Here is what you'll do:
• Build products. You will build consumer-facing web applications, including frontend / UI, backend business logic, and data management.
• Take responsibility for the full software development cycle. You will be responsible for designing, architecting, developing, monitoring/maintaining services.
• Develop internal tools. You will increase the team’s technological advantage by developing internal tools to create, deploy, and maintain high-quality computerized adaptive assessments.
• Integrate our product in the ed-tech ecosystem. You’ll handle data flow between our product and other ed-tech products.
• Deploy AI services. In this role, you will work closely with our science arm to productize ML algorithms for computerized adaptive assessments and personalized learning plans.
• Create web-interfaces. You’ll work with designers and use your frontend skills to implement smooth and elegant web interfaces.
• Gamify our products. You’ll be responsible to implement gamification in our assessment.
• Deploy frontend services. Create the frontend services that the rest of the team can work with.
Here’s the background we’d like you to have:
• CS foundations. Mastery of CS foundations, including data structures, algorithms, OS, computer networks, databases, unix, and application servers.
• Backend. Hands-on experience building web applications in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g. Python, Java, Ruby, etc.).
• Front end / UX. Experience with modern JavaScript/Typescript frameworks (e.g., Vue.js, React.js, Redux, Node.js, etc.) and creating HTML/CSS code that satisfy UI/UX requirements.
• Cloud Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Tooling & Automation. Familiarity with build tooling and automation utilizing task runners, module bundlers, and linters.
• Workflow. Solid coding practices including good design documentation, unit testing, peer code reviews, and a preference for agile methods.
• Communication. You should feel comfortable having technical discussions in English with your team.
What you can get by working with us:
• Unlimited PTO plus a week off between Christmas and New Year’s.
• Collegial atmosphere.
• Innovative environment.
• Full support for home offices.
• A culture of life-long learning supported up to $3,000 reimbursement for professional development.
• Working across cultural and geographical lines alongside our offices in different parts of the world.
• Being part of a world-class technical team that’s trying to make the world more meritocratic.
• Be part of a great cause to improve lives everywhere through artificial intelligence.
• Opportunity to own high-impact engineering projects.
What's it like to work at Workera?
• High-velocity career growth. You will be joining an all-star team of industry experts, world-class technologists from top tech companies, and proven startup operators that have built large, successful businesses. Workera is backed by top-tier venture capital firms and most importantly, we’re solving a massive problem for enterprises and individuals, so your opportunities for growth and impact are unlimited.
• A company that is solving one of the most exciting interdisciplinary problems of our era. World-changing innovations often spur from interdisciplinary research and development. Workera is, at its heart, an interdisciplinary company. To create the world’s most reliable and valid skills signal powering talent development, we hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on the most challenging problems at the intersection of psychometrics, artificial intelligence, and software engineering – from developing valid and reliable computer adaptive tests, to recommending personalized learning plans to employees and organizations, and enabling business leaders worldwide to make the best strategic decisions for upskilling and recruiting.
• Diversity. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. Our team-members, like our users, transcend geography, culture, and language; what we share, collectively, is a drive to create a skills-based, more meritocratic world, and a unique ability to execute.
• A remote-friendly work environment. No matter where you reside, you’re a part of Workera. We ensure that our globally distributed employees can participate fully in our company’s activities and do their best work every day.
• Lifelong learning. As talented as our team members are, we know that everyone is a constant work-in-progress and that the best is yet to come. We support each other in our curiosity and creativity – which we pursue through thoughtful discussion, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing among a diverse set of peers and colleagues. Did someone ever tell you that world-class mentorship doesn’t exist in startups? Please send them our way!
• A culture of transparency that we carry through to messaging communication, ensuring that team members have the information they need to make good decisions.