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Senior Engineering Manager: Learner Experience Team

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Hello, World! Codecademy has helped tens of millions of learners upgrade their careers, build meaningful projects, and gain confidence in their skills with engaging, accessible, and flexible education on programming and data skills. We provide hands-on interactive lessons ranging from Python to R to JavaScript and everything in between. Our learners have gone on to start companies, new jobs, and new lives thanks to what they’ve learned with Codecademy, and we’re thrilled to be working to take that impact to the next level.

Codecademy was started in 2011 by two college students in a dorm room at Columbia that were frustrated by the huge gap between education and employment. Almost a decade later, we are a rapidly growing, diverse team of about 200 distributed through North America and headquartered in SoHo, NYC. We’ve raised over $87.5m in venture capital funding from top investors including Kleiner Perkins, Naspers, Owl Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, and more.

If you want to help build a business that impacts tens of millions of people each year and helps them lead better lives, join us!

Codecademy’s Learner Experience Team owns the core learning experience on Codecademy for all users, and collaborates across a variety of other product teams to deliver on this goal. The team is constantly working to identify new and engaging ways to improve users’ experience with our platform. Example initiatives on this team could include a re-design of our interactive learning environment or the introduction of practice.

In this role, you will motivate and inspire your team to work on interesting projects related to scalability, reliability, and security as we deliver products and features that empower our learners around the world. You will need to execute on project goals by being a technical resource to your engineers as well as actively contributing to our learner experience. Clear communication as an Engineering Manager is key as you will not only be leading your specific team but collaborating across engineering teams within the company.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Hire and build an engineering team that is driven by the mission and vision that you champion for the team
  • Work with individual engineers to define career goals and align their ambitions with relevant projects and tasks
  • Guide your team on architecting and authoring services across our platform that enable our users to achieve their learning goals
  • Improve the scalability and efficiency of our infrastructure
  • Collaborate with other teams to get ahead of cross-team dependencies
  • Contribute to engineering team-wide process improvements and automation

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

  • 3+ years of management experience
  • Previous experience hiring technical talent
  • 3+ years of experience working in a frontend or fullstack facing role
  • You know your browser APIs and optimizing for frontend performance is a challenge you'll gladly accept
  • Experience developing web applications using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, including concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, types, and ES6
  • Experience with NoSQL (MongoDB) and SQL (Postgres) databases
  • Previous performance management and career goal setting experience
  • Previous experience working with cross functional teams

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT

  • Experience with Docker
  • Experience with Go
  • Teaching and/or structured tutoring experience
  • Experience utilizing Codecademy’s Platform
  • You've played an integral part in implementing Kubernetes in a past role

At Codecademy, we are committed to teaching people the skills they need to upgrade their careers. Codecademy aims to educate a richly diverse demographic of learners with our product and in order to accomplish this, we believe our team should reflect that rich diversity. Our company celebrates diversity in all of its forms-- race, gender, color, national origin, marital status, sexuality, religion, veteran status, age, ability, disability status-- and works to create an inclusive workplace where people of all backgrounds and beliefs are empowered to better their futures.

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Megan O’Neill
UX Writer
COURSE CORRECTION
Encouragement for learning new skills
Megan O’Neill’s UX career started back when she was in marketing at Codecademy. An engineer put out a call on Slack for help writing an error message, and she jumped at the chance to pitch in. “It might sound silly, but it was just so much fun,” she said. After 15 years in marketing, she’d been contemplating a career move, but wasn’t sure if it was the right time to share her interest in switching roles. “If it didn’t work out, I wasn’t sure what would happen. But in the end, my interest was met with a lot of support — and even excitement,” she said. Now, she’s the team’s first UX writer.
Megan O’Neill’s UX career started back when she was in marketing at Codecademy. An engineer put out a call on Slack for help writing an error message, and she jumped at the chance to pitch in. “It might sound silly, but it was just so much fun,” she said. After 15 years in marketing, she’d been contemplating a career move, but wasn’t sure if it was the right time to share her interest in switching roles. “If it didn’t work out, I wasn’t sure what would happen. But in the end, my interest was met with a lot of support — and even excitement,” she said. Now, she’s the team’s first UX writer.
We support learners on their journeys — and we are a team of lifelong learners ourselves.
Ankit Rakha
Director of Data
UPPING THE ANTE
AI tools enable new possibilities in education
Artificial intelligence has become a critical component of decision-making at Codecademy. Ankit Rakha’s team has made great strides in using data and AI to set up a diversity, equity and inclusion analytics dashboard; create a data guild; open an experimentation forum; and incorporate enterprise tooling and machine learning platforms. He likes to think of the data science and engineering teams as a sort of “think tank” for Codecademy, providing insights, helping business partners find solutions and articulating needs: “We believe that data is our users’ voice.”
Artificial intelligence has become a critical component of decision-making at Codecademy. Ankit Rakha’s team has made great strides in using data and AI to set up a diversity, equity and inclusion analytics dashboard; create a data guild; open an experimentation forum; and incorporate enterprise tooling and machine learning platforms. He likes to think of the data science and engineering teams as a sort of “think tank” for Codecademy, providing insights, helping business partners find solutions and articulating needs: “We believe that data is our users’ voice.”
My goal is to inspire and support our efforts in becoming more data-driven in our approach to serving our learners.
Koma Gandy
VP of Curriculum
Feeling heard
Where everyone’s opinions are considered
As the leader of the team that develops new curriculum features, Gandy said she strives to create an environment where her team feels empowered to speak up. "It’s important for people to feel heard, valued and included in order to achieve the best experiences for our learners," she said, adding that numerous opportunities for employees to run with their ideas and impact the platform have come from this open environment.
As the leader of the team that develops new curriculum features, Gandy said she strives to create an environment where her team feels empowered to speak up. "It’s important for people to feel heard, valued and included in order to achieve the best experiences for our learners," she said, adding that numerous opportunities for employees to run with their ideas and impact the platform have come from this open environment.
We work tirelessly to create opportunities through education, for both our learners and ourselves as employees.

What are Codecademy (a Skillsoft company) Perks + Benefits

Codecademy (a Skillsoft company) Benefits Overview

Employees are eligible from day one and there are multiple health plans to chose from - participate in the full range of benefits, including medical, prescription, vision, dental, life, and disability insurances, as well as retirement plans. Additionally, we offer employees complimentary access to One Medical -- making quality healthcare even more accessible.

Perks on Perks on Perks (some subject to change based on in-office vs. remote set up):
We offer a $50 monthly stipend for use towards gym memberships, fitness classes, meditation, massages--the choice is yours!
We offer a subsidy on Citi Bike memberships--don't just work in the city, see the city! Pre-tax commuter benefits.
We offer $1,000 a year towards education and growth to be used towards conferences, certifications, or any other opportunities to learn!
Catered lunch (Tuesday through Thursday) and a fully-stocked kitchen
Up to $75/month internet stipend (remote)
GrubHub+ Membership
401k account through Human Interest
OneMedical account for primary care
Codecademy Pro account
Unlimited vacation policy: We encourage (and sometimes demand!) that employees take vacation time to rest and reboot, in addition to paid holidays

Culture
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

We're an Edtech company that also prioritizes and provides ample resources for our team members to learn and grow in their careers as well.

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