Senior Software Engineer

About Maven

We are the largest marketplace of expert-led cohort-based courses on the Internet. This is a major innovation from existing video-based courses because cohort-based courses involve a live instructor an engaging cohort community and the accountability of a start and end time. Whereas a standard self-paced course has a 5-10% completion rate Maven's completion rate is closer to 70-90%.

We've raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz First Round and great angel investors and are on track for profitability in the coming years.

The role

We’re looking for full-stack product engineers to own big parts of our fast growing marketplace including our marketplace storefront next-gen course platform and recommendation and data systems.

What makes this role great:

• High degree of ownership over our technical systems and product roadmap

• Work with a world class team (we've built big things at Google Twitter Venmo Udemy and more)

• Fast growing marketplace of highly-rated courses including many million dollar instructors

• Close knit team with the flexibility of remote work (in the US/Canada)

You should apply if you:

• Have 5+ years of experience shipping real features to a real user base (excluding personal or school projects)

• Are as comfortable dealing React hooks and data model design as with Postgres performance

• Exhibit a high degree of agency and conscientiousness in your work

• Are a crisp and thoughtful communicator

We use React+Nextjs Python+FastAPI Postgres+OpenSearch OpenAI dbt+Snowflake.

The team

We’re a team of 20 working remotely but meeting in person 4x a year. Many of us have worked together for 3+ years and the whole team works really well together.

I (Shreyans Bhansali co-founder and CTO) built a lot of Venmo's earliest systems before starting building and selling Socratic - an early AI-powered learning app - to Google. My co-founder and CEO Gagan Biyani was a co-founder at Udemy. Our lead designer designed Twitter threads and the Airbnb listings page and everyone on the team is equally capable.

We are closely connected to our instructors and students and learn from our frequent dialogues effectively and openly debate decisions and move with conviction but an open mind.

How to apply

Open to anyone in US/Canadian time zones.

Salary range: $170-220k with strong equity and benefits.

Important: Email me at my first name @ maven.com with your application. Do not bother with the form below (it can't be turned off). Send me a thoughtful but succinct note along with your LinkedIn and other informative links. Live projects are especially nice to see as are links to personal sites.