Fullstack Engineer, Workera
Skills intelligence platform
Open for applications
Skills intelligence platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
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
- If you’re excited to unlock the full potential of our platform, leveraging the power of Generative AI and Elixir/Phoenix alongside some brilliant engineers - this could be the role for you, we are eager to have more people who want to stay on the bleeding edge of the technology!
- 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
- 5+ years of experience in fullstack software development, preferably in a SaaS or startup environment, with particular focus on the backend
- Practical experience with building scalable systems, top to bottom. Ideally, with Elixir/Phoenix/PostgreSQL, integrating with 3rd party APIs
- Practical day-to-day experience using AI tools for enhancing personal productivity (such as Claude Code) - bonus if you've already developed user-facing features that use GenAI under the hood (we'd love to hear about those!)
- A proven record of delivering a project that involves complex technical decision-making on the data layer (database modeling, optimizations, or refactoring, on a large scale), ensuring high performance at peak load times
- Strong user / customer orientation, understanding and optimizing user flows
- Ability and willingness to contribute also on the frontend (we use mainly Phoenix + React)
- Experience with GitHub and Slack for collaboration
- 2+ years of experience working with a fully remote team
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, keep stakeholders and teammates up to date
- Interest in emerging GenAI technologies and willingness to prototype with them, to discover the cutting edge of what's possible
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
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 that will make for a happy engineer
- We set up small project teams (2-3 people) deep-diving a couple of weeks or months to address a certain problem space
- 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, prototyping, 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
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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