Course Hero Hiring for Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack at Toronto, ON Full Time

Course Hero is scaling! We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join as the inaugural engineer for the SEO Pod at Course Hero. You will lead the effort to build and maintain new infrastructure to effectively acquire and engage users. You will also play a key role in building and maintaining data pipelines and running experiments to optimize the ROI of our core infrastructure growth channels and user journeys. Your core team will consist of marketers, analysts, designers, and other engineers.

In this role, you will design, implement, test and maintain Course Hero’s platform. You should be able to prioritize well, communicate clearly, have a consistent track record of delivery and have excellent software engineering skills. You will need to work across multiple facets of the project and manage multiple responsibilities.

As an early member of this high priority pod, you will be working in a scrappy, entrepreneurial team within the company and have the opportunity to help define how we operate.

We recently just launched our Engineering blog! Click here to learn about our engineering goals, our projects and innovations, and our falling forward and growth mindset mentality at Course Hero.

This is a full-time role located in Toronto, ON, Canada.

Here are some ways you will make an impact!

Design, implement, test and improve the infrastructure to support growth efforts such as data instrumentation and piping, 3rd party platform integrations, and content generation tools

Partner with product managers to participate in growth infrastructure-related idea generation and implementation to drive user acquisition and monetization. Examples include creating new mechanisms to surface valuable content for our users

Design, implement, test, and maintain Course Hero’s platform components in the context of a multi-tier, scalable, high-volume, and reliable distributed systems that perform 24×7

Take complete technical ownership of one or more closely related parts of the platform, and deliver tangible results with speed and quality

Design and implement automated tests and new test frameworks when necessary

Keep the platform running – troubleshoot and fix production issues, do root cause analysis, and take corrective actions

Take on the challenge of improving resiliency and uptime

Consistently improve maintainability and stability of the codebase

Learn and grow – expand your skills and responsibilities by mentoring other engineers and learning new frameworks and techniques

Improve our SEO rankings and drive users to Course Hero to help them get unstuck

Are you our Senior Software Engineer?

A software engineering generalist who cares deeply about driving business impact via improving user experience

Thoughtful approach to decision making; knowing when to move fast and when to do things right

Work in a high growth company that is serious about data and experimentation

Savvy in technologies like Golang, PHP, SQL, Javascript and React

Solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming

Hands-on experience with developing and maintaining distributed systems

Working knowledge of modern operating systems and networking

Proven skills in performance monitoring and scalability analysis

Ability to quickly understand technical and business requirements and be able to translate into technical design and implementation

BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or have equivalent practical experience

7+ years of relevant industry experience

Bonus Points!

Knowledge of SEO

Benefits & Perks!

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

For positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Other locations: IL, MA, NJ.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement (EEO)

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion within our company. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or ability status. We will ensure that individuals who are differently abled are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment as provided to other applicants or employees. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us:
Course Hero is on a mission to help students graduate, confident and prepared. The online learning platform offers over 60 million course-specific study resources created by and for students and educators, as well as 24/7 tutor help. More than 65,000 verified college educators use Course Hero to collaborate with other faculty and share resources to hone new strategies for instruction. Everyday, students, educators and tutors help more than 20 million students make every study hour count.

We have an awesome team and a truly engaging culture. We are customer-focused, collaborative, responsible, gritty, and we love to learn. Our bold mission is to help students graduate confident and prepared!

We are not the only ones that think we’re onto something big. Course Hero has been recognized as one of the 2021 Top 100 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area, Top 50 Best Paying Companies in the Bay Area, Top 100 Most Transparent Companies, and in the Top 50 Most Transformational Companies in Education Technology. Read up on some of our recent news coverage, blog, and learn more about us to see what it is like to work with our team.

Join us on our mission!