Staff Software Engineer, Personalization (Colombia)

As our first Personalization Engineer at Skillshare, you’ll be building out the foundations of a micro-services based Personalization system that will connect our users to the right content.

You’ll be joining a fast-paced team that is passionate about technology, building products we’re proud of, and upholding a strong, collaborative team culture. We’re excited to meet you!

Why we’re excited about you:

- You have 5+ years of experience building highly-scalable APIs and services
- You’re an experienced backend engineer with a proven history of building at scale
- You are a natural collaborator – you work seamlessly within and between teams
- You are motivated by full ownership of your work and are eager to help improve our users’ experience
- You have experience in developing and deploying software in a continuous delivery environment
- You have experience using AWS services and developing serverless or container-based services
- You have experience developing with Python, Node.js, AWS Kinesis, and other caching and data store technologies
- You have experience developing and operating machine learning-powered personalization related services in production
- You have a strong understanding of how to transform business needs into features and you have the data and business intuition to be able to design, vet and trouble-shoot features for recommendation systems
- You have experience or interest in feature flag based development
- You have a passion for having a real impact on the world
- You have worked with US-based clients/teams
- You are highly proficient in English

What you’ll do:

- Design, develop and ship new microservices that will power the personalization APIs used by our website and mobile apps
- Operationalize the historical and real-time data pipeline to create, train and update the models
- Collaborate on design and end-to-end development of personalization APIs with data scientists and product managers
- Collaborate with data scientists on developing features, prototyping and iterative tuning of models
- Architect simple solutions to complex challenges
- Ship code to production daily to support our fast-growing product
- Participate in agile software development including daily stand-ups, bi-weekly sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives for the team

Why you’re excited about us:

- Our mission: We are building a learning ecosystem for the new economy and changing millions of lives for the better.
- Our team: We have a passionate, smart team that is a lot of fun to work with. You will have the opportunity to travel to New York and spend time with the teams there.
- Your life: We take pride in our flexibility. Working remotely is part of how we need to work these days. You’re a professional, and we trust you to do what you need to do.
- Impact: You’ll play a key role in shaping the direction of the engineering team and overall technology strategy.
- Our growth: We are looking at triple-digit growth (and then some). It’s going to be a very exciting few years ahead for Skillshare, and you’ll participate in the company stock option plan.
- Flexibility: We believe that doing your best work means living a full life. That means different things for everyone, so we optimize for trust, invest to support remote teams, and encourage work-life balance. We offer a flexible work culture, including Work From Home Tuesdays and extensive vacation days.
- Your growth: Ongoing education including learning stipends, English language classes, conference opportunities, and in-house training, ranging from Equity 101 to Engineering Lunch & Learns and professional skills.