Engineering Manager, Brilliant
Growth
$180-220k
Helping people learn STEM
Job no longer available
Helping people learn STEM
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$180-220k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create a world of great problems solvers.
Role
Who you are
- You've worked professionally as a Software Engineer for at least 4 years, and you have experience as a people manager
- You have experience working as an engineer or engineering leader on a growth focused team at a consumer focused company. Ideally, you have experience building and maintaining payments systems and/or running high velocity A/B tests
- You are comfortable switching contexts between languages, frameworks, and paradigms
- You're energized by fostering talent. You're excited to support the professional development of a team of skilled and curious engineers
- You're energized by learning from your colleagues. You're excited to learn from a team of skilled and curious engineers
- You enjoy thinking through technical problems at a high level and an implementation level. You’re a talented systems-thinker who frequently asks “why” but you're not afraid to roll up your sleeves and chip in
- You greatly enjoy working on both organizational and technical problems. You believe that how we all work together will be the difference between building a great product and building a product that fundamentally changes how the world learns
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager, you’ll work closely with our other EMs, Head of Engineering, and team of 20+ talented engineers to nurture our processes, culture, and team. You'll partner closely with our Growth Product Manager & Tech Lead to serve as a hands on people manager and technical partner for 4 engineers focused on a cohesive set of business and product problems. In particular, you'll be the EM for our Growth pod, which owns areas like our logged out experience, new user experience, and payments systems
- Serve as a hands on people manager and technical partner for a small team of talented and motivated engineers
- Develop and share product and business context. Support each of your reports as they pursue a depth of knowledge in their problem space and how to have the biggest impact on our business and learners
- Cultivate awareness among engineers of how their work connects to business objectives. Enable engineers to make sharp, high-context prioritization decisions
- Contribute to strategic technical decision making. Identify opportunities to improve engineering velocity and quality of life. Frequently get your hands dirty and contribute directly to unblock a project, build a proof of concept, or help shield the team from less valuable reactive work
- Advise on and implement changes to our engineering processes and culture
- Set an excellent example to the engineering team in everything from decision making to work-life balance
Our take
Brilliant is an online resource for high-quality STEM educational resources, aimed at students worldwide. Founded in 2012, the company sources lessons from award-winning experts from the likes of MIT, Google, and Caltech. Its focus is on providing bite-sized, interactive exercises that encourage conceptual understanding and enjoyment in the learning process.
With a drive to engage more young learners in STEM education, Brilliant may be on the right side of history. U.S. students underperform in STEM in world rankings with close economic competitors, and so the appetite to engage students with the kind of services Brilliant offers is growing.
The company also offer intermediate and advanced level courses for more experienced professionals, with over 10 million users worldwide. And with the rapid shift to virtual learning, Brilliant's highly accessible solution is only likely to grow in popularity.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2022
$50m
SERIES C
Jul 2020
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $73m
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sue Khim
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Mathematics at the University of Chicago.
Silas Hundt
(Co-Founder & VP of Product)Studied Statistics at the University of Chicago, and was CPO and Co-Founder of Alltuition.
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