At Teachable we empower creators to transform their knowledge into income. To accomplish this, our products enable individuals and small businesses to create, host and sell online courses and coaching. Teachable Creators have tens of thousands of active creators who’ve reached more than 45 million students around the world, teaching a diverse array of topics, ranging from crafting to card tricks to coding. Fifty million people worldwide consider themselves to be creators. More than two million people earn enough from their passion projects to consider it their full-time income. The rise of the creator economy means more people than ever want to share what they know and monetize it. Teachable is poised to offer best-in-class solutions to this ever-growing market.

In 2020, Teachable was acquired by Hotmart Company, a global leader in the Creator Economy with a shared mission of empowering creators to live out their passions. With offices in eight countries and more than 35 million users worldwide, Hotmart’s partnership ensures our creators—current and future—have access to best-in-class technology tools, so they can scale their online businesses with ease and truly make an impact on their students’ lives.

We are looking for a technical leader to join our growing engineering team at Teachable. Our engineering team is structured into small pods of four to six engineers, led by a pod lead. For this role you will oversee a team of engineers on one of Teaching and Learning Pods.  

As a part of the engineering leadership team, you will help build the team’s technical vision and direction as well as establish processes and drive initiatives that result in technical, operational, and cultural improvements across the engineering team. 

While you will not be expected to write critical path code, you will spend time on technical leadership. You achieve results not through micromanagement, but rather by empowering your team and helping them to run autonomously to deliver great work. You are a growing people manager who cares about the well-being and growth of your engineers, you have experience coaching your team members to success and developing their careers. 

This position reports to the Director of Engineering, Teaching and Learning.  

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and mentor 4-6 direct reports, provide performance feedback, and help them develop their careers.
• Establish and improve team processes in all areas including software development, operational efficiency, and delivery to achieve operational excellence. 
• Partner with engineering leadership to help determine engineering team strategy, tackle team-wide inefficiencies, and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Drive management initiatives across the technology organization, e.g hiring, career development, policies, budgets, etc. 
• Lead engineering-wide guilds, projects, activities e.g Frontend or Backend guilds, hackathons etc.
• Collaborate and communicate with other teams (Product, Design, QA, Customer Ops, Marketing) on cross-functional initiatives. 
• Lead successful development and delivery of team projects and operations.
• Partner with engineering leadership to help determine engineering-wide team strategy, tackle team-wide inefficiencies.
• Upholds Teachable values, including building and growing as part of a diverse team.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years of combined tech leadership and people management. 
• Previously lead and/or managed a team of 3 or more engineers.
• Managed 1-2 teams with a track record of delivering high-quality products in scalable web applications.
• Proficient at project management; has a track record of making tradeoffs to deliver projects on time with high quality.
• Experience leading technical initiatives with impact across multiple teams or domains. 
• Thrives in ambiguity and can make forward progress in situations when given minimal guidance.
• The relentless drive for continuous improvement and ownership with proven ability to instill in their teams.
• Experience mentoring individual contributors of different seniority levels and expertise (frontend/backend). 
• Has effectively recruited, hired, and led diverse engineering teams.

Teachable operates under a hybrid work model, meaning we give our employees the flexibility to work from home or from one of our offices at their leisure (unless otherwise mentioned in a job description).

Benefits:

Comprehensive Health, Dental, & Vision benefits with options covering up to 100% of monthly premium

Generous Vacation, Personal, and Sick Time

Parental leave, 16 weeks fully paid after three months of service

4% 401(k) with match after three months of service

Supplemental student loan repayment assistance or a professional education stipend

Tax-free commuter benefit

50% gym & wellness match

Headspace subscription

$250 Donation Match Program

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