Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

Course Hero is scaling! We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to drive key projects, mentor team members, deal with constantly evolving business needs, and help continuously improve our software systems. You’ll thrive in an engaging, high-growth environment, with a collaborative, learning-focused culture. Our engineers have complete autonomy and independence to innovate.

The Content Enrichment team is building intelligent solutions and expertise in documents to support the student studying experience. As a senior software engineer you’ll lead projects from ideation to implementation, including the largest, scalable academic knowledge graph of questions and answers.

Here are some ways you'll make an impact:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software for new user-facing features
• Identify and evaluate new technologies to improve the Course Hero platform
• Design and implement technical system changes—this is hands-on work where you’ll be coding and mentoring our hardworking developers
• Profile and optimize our apps, ensuring high performance across devices
• Identify best practices and areas for improvement and drive those initiatives
• Design sophisticated systems and lead the technical solution of projects
• Work closely with our product and design teams to define feature specifications
• Mentor other engineers

Are you our Senior Software Engineer?

• BS degree in Computer Science or relevant work experience
• 5+ years in designing and building dynamic production solutions
• Strong technical background coding web applications at scale, such as Go, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Ability to formulate and articulate opinions on product design and engineering issues with a focus in finding the most effective solution
• Deep sense of product ownership
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or have equivalent practical experience

• Competitive salary, annual bonus, and RSUs
• Medical coverage, including full dental and vision
• Life and disability benefits
• 401(k) program (US)  / retirement savings plan (Canada) with company match
• One month paid sabbatical after 5 years at the company
• Education reimbursement
• Professional development workshops & industry conferences
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible work schedule
• Social responsibility program (volunteer time off and donation matching)
• Annual wellness stipend
• Monthly tech stipend
• Annual family planning stipend
• Monthly snack boxes delivered to your door
• Cell phone allowance