Intermediate Software Developer, Top Hat
Interactive software for higher education
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Interactive software for higher education
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower educators to engage students and unleash their potential.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in full-stack software development
- Front-end proficiency, ideally with React, and back-end experience—we use Django and FastAPI, but similar experience with other frameworks is welcome
- A proactive problem-solver: Navigate ambiguity confidently by asking the right questions, making informed decisions, and aligning with stakeholders
- Innovation-focused mindset: Excited by experimentation, eager to propose ideas that enhance both technology and product design
- Strong communication skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication, active listening, and the ability to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical audiences
- A commitment to quality: You take pride in writing reliable, tested code and embrace full ownership of your work’s quality
What the job involves
- This team provides professors and content creators with a platform to create, organize, and distribute interactive and engaging educational materials for students
- We’re currently experimenting with ways to make digital textbooks more relevant, approachable, and affordable for students, and recently rolled out a feature that lets professors generate interactive questions for their lectures
- You will contribute to innovation and experimentation, leveraging data-driven insights to deliver impactful product improvements
- With a focus on collaboration and iteration, you’ll play a critical role in building products that drive success for both students and educators
- Drive impactful projects: Take ownership of key initiatives, leading the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) from discovery and planning to development and release, in collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering peers
- Experiment and innovate: Propose bold ideas, experiment with solutions, and iterate to improve both our technology and the products we build
- Collaborate in a dynamic environment: Work in a cross-functional scrum team to design and build scalable, user-focused features
- Contribute across the board: Support team goals by resolving bugs, tackling individual tickets, and ensuring the continuous improvement of our products
Our take
Top Hat is at the apex of two major trends in education: the digitisation of platforms for content and the rising costs of higher education for students. By digitising work largely created by professors, Top Hat has delivered engaging content at lower cost for students across Canada and North America.
Where traditional publishers rely on analogue processes to provide high-quality but largely unengaging, uninteractive and expensive textbooks, Top Hat markets the platform to professors to publish their own interactive multimedia online textbooks. This gives them a cut and builds a holistic student experience on top.
The product has now had so much success that Top Hat’s strategy has evolved to include buying those conventional publishers of postsecondary course materials. This means the company can shift those quality materials into digitally distributed versions and make them available on a subscription basis.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2021
$130m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$55m
SERIES D
Total funding: $234.9m
Company benefits
- Professional learning and development for all role levels
- The latest and greatest technology to do your job
- An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ
- Competitive benefits and health/lifestyle spending accounts
- A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection
- Employee-led, exec sponsored employee resource groups
Company values
- Good In The Woods - We believe that our success depends on being agile, resourceful and brave—no matter how great the challenge
- There Is No 'I' In Top Hat - We believe that teamwork is the key to meeting our goals. We work hard, we work smart and we work without ego
- Aggressive Growth - We believe in moving fast and aiming high, and that our company’s growth will revolutionize higher education
- Treat Professors Like Heroes - We believe professors should be celebrated for their contributions to higher education
Company HQ
Downtown Toronto, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Maggie (Moylan) Leen
(CEO & CMO)Formerly VP of Marketing and Communications, Medical and Healthcare at Adtalem Global Education. Also spent 14 years at Pearson and 2 years at Community Advocates.
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