Senior Software Engineer, Workera
More information about location
Skills intelligence platform
Job no longer available
Skills intelligence platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower individuals and organizations to thrive by understanding, measuring, and improving their skills - across any skill - at any time.
Role
Who you are
- We're on the lookout for a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineer
- Excited to unlock the full potential of our platform, leveraging the power of Generative AI and Elixir/Phoenix alongside some brilliant engineers
- This role is perfect for those who thrive in an environment where they can take the wheel and drive
- You know how to prioritize tasks even when there seem to be a million things on your plate
- You've built software systems that scaled up, and you strike a balance between pragmatism and future-proofing your solutions
- If you still need to dabble in functional programming, no worries, we're excited to help you learn and grow.
- Strong interest and professional experience in emerging Generative AI technologies, with a readiness to upskill and learn. Bonus points if you’ve worked on voice-based applications
- 5+ years of experience in backend software development, preferably in a SaaS or startup environment. Bonus if you also have frontend experience, but you at least havean interest in front end engineering
- Practical experience with building scalable systems, top to bottom. Ideally, it's with Elixir/Phoenix, but we find experiences with Go, Erlang or Clojure also relevant. If you don't have Elixir experience, a proven record of learning new technologies is highly appreciated
- Experience with database technologies such as PostgreSQL
- Experience with GitHub and Slack for collaboration
- 2+ years of experience in working with a fully remote team
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, keep stakeholders and teammates up to date
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Proficiency in utilizing AI tools such as ChatGPT or equivalent digital assistants and applying them effectively within your work context
What the job involves
- At Workera, we want each one of us to be a product engineer, an empowered engineer who cares about the users, and gets excited about a delightful user expeirence
- We set up small project teams (2-3 people) following the ShapeUp methodology, deep-diving for 6 weeks, to solve a certain business problem
- The project team has the autonomy to solve it in the way they want - but also the responsibility to own every aspect of the feature: scoping the problem and solution, testing/dogfooding, rollout, and handling user feedback
- You work closely with our product manager and product designer in doing so, as well as other (non-tech) colleagues
- You’ll design and build LLM-powered applications—including agentic workflows, RAG systems, and voice interfaces—from ideation and system design through to deployment
- Your focus will be on creating scalable and robust architectures, including observability and continuous feedback loops
- The team you’d work in consists of 6 other engineers and is supported by a product designer, a product manager, and an engineering manager
- We are all based in EMEA region, although every one of us lives in a different country
- We value deep work and async communication, and that’s why there are only a couple of regular meetings (weekly with the team for projects, another one with the company, and lastly game-time on Fridays)
- Within 3 months, you will:
- Be fully onboarded and actively contributing to projects with technical and product uncertainties
- Explore and prototype LLM applications, helping define and refine agentic and generative user experiences
- Troubleshoot issues across the stack—frontend, backend, and AI features alike
- Within 9 months, you will:
- Lead the development of a GenAI-powered feature or capability from idea to production
- Serve as a thought leader in shaping Workera’s approach to building AI-native applications
Our take
Companies are struggling to find a learning platform that can upskill and reskill their talent quickly, in accordance with the fast development of the technology used in different key roles such as data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Workera is an upskilling startup that helps companies evaluate their data and AI capabilities and provide their employees with personalized learning plans to keep them updated on the latest technologies and practices. The company uses AI and machine learning to evaluate the current skillset's within a company and to design a learning plan that will help businesses' workforce reach a particular level of understanding of new technology.
Recently, the company strengthened its enterprise footprint through a partnership with Udemy. The collaboration brings together Workera's AI-powered skills assessment with Udemy's global learning marketplace, creating an end-to-end solution that allows organizations to identify capability gaps and deliver more targeted training.
As demand for GenAI and advanced technical skills continues to grow, this partnership puts Workera at the centre of a more integrated, data-driven approach to workforce development, helping enterprise move beyond just one-off courses and toward continuous upskilling.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
52% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2023
$23.5m
SERIES B
Aug 2021
$16m
SERIES A
Total funding: $44.5m
Company HQ
Ventura, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Kian Katanforoosh
(Co-Founder & CEO)Alongside Workera, Kian is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University and a Scout at Sequoia Capital. Previously he co-founded Daskit.
Adam Lavezzo
(COO)Prior to joining Workera in 2023, Adam spent nearly 6 years at BetterUp as a VP of Operations/Revenue Strategy & Operations. He also spent 6 years at Bain & Company as a Consultant and Manager.
Tim DaRosa
(CRO)Tim joined Workera in 2024 as CMO, moving into the role of CRO in 2026. Previously, he was the Head of Marketing at Airkit.ai and CMO at Zadara.He also spent over 3 years at HackerOne as VP, then Senior VP of Marketing.
Share this job
View 2 more jobs at Workera