Staff Full-Stack Engineer, BetterUp
$147-245k
2+ days a week in office
AI-driven employee coaching platform
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AI-driven employee coaching platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$147-245k
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock greater clarity, potential, purpose, and passion for every one of their members, with an innovative approach to coaching and leadership development.
Role
Who you are
- At BetterUp we delight in supporting and pushing each other to bring out the best in our colleagues, and would love someone to join the team who shares our passion for customer empathy, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience - you are relentlessly curious and an expert in multiple tried and true tech stacks, plus you are comfortable jumping into new areas and thrive on learning
- Deep experience in startups with demonstrated success building scalable system architectures, especially for multi-sided marketplace platforms like BetterUp's Human Transformation Platform
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, with a strategic mindset able to navigate complex technical challenges, ensuring robust, flexible solutions that align with BetterUp’s long-term vision
- Extensive full-stack/data engineering experience, across industries, and domains
- Expertise in building enterprise applications using tech like Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, AWS, etc plus the ability to leverage and reason about modern data technologies (DBT, Airflow, Snowflake) to drive data-driven, data powered systems
- Agile and Lean startup veteran who is able to deliver incredible customer-centric product innovations, by their direct engineering ability, but also by shaping and guiding product roadmaps in the face of ambiguity, volatility, and risk
- Strong communicators who possess a passion for BetterUp’s mission, and have a demonstrated ability to mentor and lead with empathy, passion, and wisdom
Desirable
- You have radical curiosity and you love to learn new things
- You seek feedback and turn it into action
- You can work autonomously while being great at collaboration
- You mentor and empower others around you
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer here at BetterUp you will have the opportunity to leverage your expertise, passion, and drive to make the world better by crafting iconic, groundbreaking solutions via your deep ability to architect and deliver robust, scalable, foundational systems
- You will help lead our technical strategy, mentor engineers, and drive innovation at the intersection of platform technology, data, and AI
- You will collaborate across functions to drive our mission to transform lives worldwide
- You’ll also help us chart a course to elevate our platform, ensuring it is robust, flexible, and composable - you will help us create the bedrock necessary to unlock new possibilities for users across the globe
- Your core mission will be to lead the way in building our infrastructure for innovation
- You will lead by example, driving significant advancements while growing personally and professionally
- Using tried and true technologies like Ruby on Rails running in AWS paired with the latest in data and GenAI technologies your team and platforms will be pivotal in positively impacting millions of people via our Human Transformation Platform
- Your leadership will extend to mentoring engineers and spearheading cross-functional collaborations that nurture a culture of innovation and continuous learning
- You'll tackle exciting projects and complex problems, pushing the boundaries of technology to support personal and professional growth
- Your career at BetterUp will accelerate by delivering innovative projects, extensive leadership opportunities, and the profound impact of your work on global well-being
- You'll have the freedom to innovate and the opportunity to grow, all while contributing significantly to our mission and having fun along the way
- This role won’t be easy, our course is steep, and the road ahead will be tough, so we are looking for someone who is comfortable in the rapidly changing world of hyper growth startups, who has the experience and wisdom to help us mature into a high growth, iconic world impacting organization
- Spearhead delivery of scalable, robust systems for BetterUp's platform, ensuring they are flexible and adaptable for future growth
- Align technical efforts with business goals, innovating solutions that enhance user experience and operational efficiency
- Elevate our team through continuous learning, fostering an environment of engineering excellence, creating leverage via your experience, brilliance and leadership
- Ensure technical solutions are cohesive and support company-wide objectives
- Apply deep product development expertise and a strong sense of customer empathy to guide the creation of user-centered solutions, ensuring the delivery of high-impact capabilities that drive value for members and our customers
Our take
Companies are becoming increasingly informed regarding the importance of mental health in the workplace, especially when it comes to improving the interpersonal and leadership skills of their employees. Whilst many online platforms provide coaching services to help people excel in the workplace, existing options generally focus on career-based skills as opposed to overall mental wellness.
BetterUp connects employees with online career coaches, working directly with companies to improve mental health and enthusiasm in the workplace. The online service leverages AI analysis of questionnaire results to match employees with personalized video coaching sessions and career development services, providing support in areas often neglected by employers such as sleep, parenting, and overall mental fitness.
BetterUp has seen substantial success, and has the world's largest network of coaches (with over 3,000), offering coaching in 46 languages across 90 countries. The multi-unicorn company has ample opportunity to see further growth and expansion.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2021
$300m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $579m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401k
- Flexible Time Off
- Paid parental leave
- Personalized BetterUp Coach
- $360 each year for wellness programs
- Annual $1K learning and development stipend
- Equity package
- 5 volunteer days and 4 paid Inner Work™ days a year
Company values
- Do less, deliver more - We focus on the work that will contribute the most to our mission and then execute to the best of our abilities
- Extreme ownership - We are fully responsible for our work. When things go poorly, we relish the opportunity to learn from it and improve
- Work to learn - We’re curious, willing-to-be-wrong, agile learners. This means we engage with work as a playscape on which to discover, learn, and realize our full potential
- Bias toward action - We prefer to act rather than wait and see. When we identify an opportunity to make a difference, we move on it
Company HQ
Govalle, Austin, TX
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Leadership
Alexi Robichaux
(CEO)Studied Political Science at USC, and then worked in Business Insight at the Walt Disney Company. Was a Product Manager at Socialcast, and Director of Product Management at VMware.
Eduardo Medina
(COO)Studied Business at USC and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain, and as an Associate at Altamont Capital Partners.
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