Backend Software Engineer, Workera
Skills Authoring
Skills intelligence platform
Job no longer available
Skills intelligence platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
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
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, preferably in a SaaS or startup environment
- Strong knowledge of backend programming languages, ideally Elixir (although not a prerequisite if you’re a fast learner)
- Experience with database technologies
- Familiarity with cloud technologies, such as AWS or Azure
- Experience with the Phoenix framework on top of Elixir
- Experience with GitHub and Slack for collaboration
- 1+ years of experience in working with a fully remote team
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, update stakeholders proactively
- A passion for staying up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends in software engineering
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- You enjoy working in an environment where you are the driver, not the passenger
- You know how to prioritize when there are a million things to do
- You have built software systems that scaled up
- You know how to balance pragmatism with future-proofing your solutions
- You have experience (or are excited to learn about) functional programming
- You are proficient in interface definition, service design, and database schema design
What the job involves
- Drive the projects to build and launch new features or products. We follow the ShapeUp methodology: our project teams are small (2-3 devs) and we typically run 6 week long projects
- Defining software solutions based on feature pitches (i.e., product briefs) together with the product manager and the product designer
- Participating in code reviews, design discussions, and other team activities to ensure best practices are followed
- Writing clean, modular, and testable code that will make the Elixir community proud 💜
- Help onboard new team members, or interview candidates to join our team
- Use your favorite gifs and emojis on Slack because sometimes a picture tells a thousand words
- Give and get feedback from your peers, either about technical skills or about teamwork aspects
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.
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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.
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