Senior Software Engineer, Guild Education
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$150-180k
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Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
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Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$150-180k
+ Stock options
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling.
Role
Who you are
- Although you’re an expert in several front-end technologies (including React), we expect you to be comfortable building anywhere within the full stack of web systems
- We are looking to add a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer who has a passion for building enterprise SaaS products
- Excellent cross-team communication and collaboration skills, especially in a distributed working environment
- Build with simplicity, reliability, and scalability in mind
- Know how and when to use AI to enhance your productivity
- Expertise in several (or all!) of these tools and technologies: Typescript, HTML, CSS, React, REST, and GraphQL. Familiarity with other languages, API protocols, and databases can also work for us!
- Expertise building and owning multiple services and user interfaces—data modeling, unit and integration testing, application monitoring, and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
- Expertise with a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean), database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL), and modern source control (Git / Github)
- Demonstrated curiosity and interest in keeping up and experimenting with new technologies
- Willingness to embrace change and work within a fast-paced environment
- Passion for education and our mission
What the job involves
- Guild is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Academy product team
- This product enables social, cohorted learning within large enterprises, for better learning and engagement outcomes
- The Academy product has launched via an acquisition, with a well-tested core experience that users and clients love from a decade plus of development
- The small, distributed team from across the US and Europe has joined Guild and we are making a significant investment to bring this product to the world
- You will leverage your full-stack development experience and understanding of the rigors of enterprise SaaS solutions to quickly bring new product capabilities to life and iterate on them to satisfy market demand and scale in response to growth
- You will operate within a diverse team including engineers, product managers, designers, operators, customer support, and sales to accelerate Guild’s mission and expand Guild’s market
- Build and maintain software solutions and services that ensure quality, scalability, and resiliency based on customer and business needs
- Create production-ready, rugged, maintainable, and well-tested code across various technologies, including AWS, TypeScript, React, Python, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL
- Actively contribute to optimizing workflows and improving team velocity through technical enhancements
- Proactively identify and raise blockers, technical debt, and concerns to enable faster resolution by leveraging broader team knowledge and expertise
- Improve the stability, performance, and monitoring of services while participating in on-call and incident response processes
- Foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement, encouraging team members to develop technical and problem-solving skills
- Work closely with our product and design teams to develop solutions, plan stories, and provide accurate estimates while ensuring that features delivered meet requirements and are delivered on-time
Our take
The recruitment process can be the most costly element of a company's operation, with future-proof skillset requirements resulting in the hiring of staff for niche tasks. Many existing employees of a company could have the potential to fill talent gaps and prevent the need for a new hire, but they often lack the training for such roles. Helping to solve this problem, Guild Education helps employers partner with nonprofit universities to train staff across a variety of subject matters, including high school completion programs, vocational opportunities, and enrollment in higher education.
As professional development is a strong employer benefit, Guild Education also pitches itself as a perk for employees, aiming to increase retention and worker satisfaction. By solving two major problems - a skills shortage and worker retention, it has gained large companies such as Chipotle, Target, Hilton and PepsiCo as corporate clients.
Guild Education closed a Series F financing round in 2022 led by Wellington Management and with participation from Oprah Winfrey. The company is using this funding to develop its healthcare and financial services learning modules and increase its offering to workers by exploring new ways to lower the barriers to learning, for instance through childcare solutions and financial wellness tools.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$265m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $643.5m
Company benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
Leadership
Rachel Carlson
(CEO & Founder)Prior to co-founding Guild Education, was founder and CEO of Blueprint. Before that was a Director at American Honours and an Associate with The Parthenon Group.
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