Senior Platform Engineer

What is Teachable?

What is the role?

As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for automating repetitive tasks, streamlining the software development lifecycle, and optimizing deployment processes to enable faster and more reliable software releases. You will analyze existing engineering processes and workflows to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement. With guild insights you will collaborate with engineering teams to design and implement process improvements, optimize code review processes, and implement continuous integration and delivery best practices.

In this position, you will work remotely with Teachable’s Brazil and US-based teams. We are hiring talented engineers in Brazil. 

In this role, you'll:

• Partner with engineers on the pod and throughout the organization to build high-quality, scalable products


• Create and maintain technical documentation, guidelines, and best practices to ensure knowledge sharing and promote consistent development standards across the organization


• Develop and deliver training programs to onboard new engineers and help them become productive quickly. Provide ongoing training and support to engineers on new technologies, tools, and best practices


• Act as a mentor and provide technical guidance and support to other engineers. Help troubleshoot technical issues, review code, and provide feedback to improve the overall quality of software development


• Constantly “leave it better than how you found it” mentality and are willing to work in and improve legacy code that you did not originally write. 


• Stay up to date with industry trends, new technologies, and best practices in software engineering. Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and methodologies that can enhance our engineering processes and capabilities

What You’ll Bring:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building and supporting production web applications


• Experience utilizing tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Terraform


• Proficiency writing software used in a production environment


• Experience working on a platform with multiple services


• Excitement and motivation to expand your skillset and take on difficult challenges


• Team player mentality: highly collaborative, documentation-focused and recognizing how to balance asynchronous communications and virtual meetings


• A passion for solving complex technical problems in both new and legacy codebases


• A mindset of leaving the codebase better than how you found it


• Experience collaborating with multiple team members with varying experience levels to design and implement technical projects


• Ability to work and problem-solve independently


• A humble, collaborative, customer-focused, and highly curious approach to problem-solving


• Advanced English Proficiency

Nice to have:

• DevOps or SRE experience


• Proficiency in using Golang and Ruby in a production environment


• Experience on an engineering enablement or platform team or experience contributing engineering-wide initiatives