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• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
• LOCATION: Remote - United States Only (TimeZone: EST | Full day overlap)
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $40 – $68/hr
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - Long term

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THE OPPORTUNITY

Requirements

Must Have

• Experience with Ruby on Rails

Nice to Have

• Experience with highly concurrent languages such as GoLang, Erlang or Scala

• Experience with deployment systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy)

• Experience with highly concurrent languages such as React, Javascript, HTML and CSS

• Familiarity with AWS Services (e.g. RDS, Lambda, EC2, et cetera)

• Familiarity with the Linux Operating System and command-line tools

• Understanding of OO design, algorithms, and data structures

• Aptitude to quickly learn new languages and technologies as necessary

• Computer Science or related degree

What you’ll be working on

Description

Our client is looking for talented software engineers to help with their ongoing growth and expansion! They are a live learning platform that connects students and professionals with personalized instruction to achieve any goal. To date, students have accessed more than three million hours of live instruction on the platform. Experts are available to meet in person or through the company’s award-winning online and mobile platforms.

They take great pride in the quality of our code, their processes, and their services. They have a complete CI/CD software lifecycle and an evolving services-oriented-architecture hosted in AWS.

They operate in a highly collaborative environment with Product and Design to build experiences that matter to their customers. At the company, engineers do not just write code, they actively participate in the conversation on what and how to build the systems and solutions that matter to their customers. If you love your customers as much as they do, they'd love to hear from you.

AI at Nerdy:

AI has been central to Nerdy’s ability to improve its product quality and enhance personalization. Today, AI powers the company’s ability to identify the highest quality Experts, assess Learners' foundational knowledge, and helps ensure the right Expert-Learner match, among many other use cases. The latest AI advancements have created new opportunities to rapidly develop transformative experiences involving the real-time generation, and the ability to deliver live human interaction and personalized learning at scale - and they’re building a team to make this happen.

Responsibilities

• Write performant, maintainable code that is easy to read and well-documented

• Write automated tests to thoroughly validate the correctness of your code

• Deploy large-scale web applications

• Have a focus on quality, and operate iteratively to get from good to better

• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotation; they all own their code end-to-end from development to deployment to operations

• Come ready to learn from some of the best and brightest in the industry

• Work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic and fast-moving team

• Be effective in a team environment working with fellow engineers, product management, and design

Leadership Principles:

Relentless Focus on Customers * Comfort with Ambiguity * Ownership * Simplify * Intellectual Curiosity * Build Teams * Think Big * Insist on High Standards * Bias for Action * Build Trust * Go Deep * Have Conviction * Deliver Results * Are Right, a Lot

Note: Please feel comfortable applying, even if you don’t meet all the requirements for the position. They’ll let you in on a secret: there’s no such thing as a “perfect” candidate and everyone can grow. They strongly encourage members of underrepresented groups and people of diverse backgrounds to apply because their range of perspectives helps them learn better. Apply now if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day!

Our client is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Apply Now!

Braintrust Job ID: 6341

C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.

Braintrust values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.