Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Overview:

We are looking for a Staff Engineer with applied A.I. experience and who is passionate about leading engineering teams to join us on our mission to help people learn! This is a great opportunity to work with an amazing team and drive the technology of learning products and platforms. We operate in a highly collaborative environment with Product and Design to build experiences that matter to our customers. At Varsity Tutors, 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 our customers. If you love your customers as much as we do, we'd love to hear from you.

We use big data and machine learning, taking into account hundreds of variables, including Learner and Expert attributes, adaptive diagnostic assessments, and data from past learning experiences. But really, we are just getting started and have so much more headroom to innovate. As part of the team, you will architect scalable software solutions, understand and implement best practices, and create technology that is highly performant and extensible.

This position is a full-time remote opportunity.

About Nerdy:

Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY), the parent company of Varsity Tutors, is a leading platform for live online learning, with a mission to transform the way people learn through technology. The Company’s purpose-built proprietary platform leverages technology, including AI (Nerdy AI Learning Products - Press Release), to connect learners of all ages to experts, delivering superior value on both sides of the network. Nerdy’s comprehensive learning destination provides learning experiences across 3,000+ subjects and multiple formats—including one-on-one instruction, small group classes, large format group classes, on-demand study support, and adaptive self-study. Nerdy’s flagship business, Varsity Tutors, is one of the nation’s largest platforms for live online tutoring and classes. Its solutions are available directly to students and consumers, as well as through schools and other institutions. Learn more about Nerdy at https://www.nerdy.com/. 

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 we’re building a team to make this happen.

Responsibilities: 

• Implement customer-facing solutions that solve the customers’ true needs

• Own large scale services that power our growing learning platform

• Architect software with scalability, redundancy, and seamless survival / recovery

• Use CI/CD to deploy in AWS with proper logging, monitoring, and alerting

• Serve as a mentor, idea leader, and advocate for best practices

• Partner with Product and Data Science

Qualifications: 

• Experience architecting, implementing and documenting at-scale web applications in:

• Golang - essential

• Ruby on Rails - Nice to have

• Java/Scala/C++ - Nice to Have

• Experience with deployment systems (e.g. CodeShip, AWS CodeDeploy) is a plus

• Familiarity with AWS Infrastructure: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Batch, CloudWatch, Kinesis, etc.

• Familiarity with implementing e-commerce solutions is a plus

• Aptitude to quickly learn new languages and technologies as necessary

• Lead a diverse, inclusive, passionate team of engineers to continuously deliver customer delight

You should also be familiar with:

• Programming: Functional, Object Oriented, Design Patterns, Big O, data structures

• Service Oriented Architecture: contextual boundaries and communication between services 

• Machine Learning Systems: batch and real-time machine learning systems

• Configuration Tooling: Terraform, AWS Cloudformation

• Data Security: Secure coding, data protection, and classification, PCI / HIPAA / GDPR

Varsity Tutors 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

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary plus Equity in the company

• Healthcare Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Pet)

• 401k Company Matching Plan

• Maternity, Paternal, and Adoption Leave

• Remote Position

• Flexible PTO

• Hackfest! (Multiple times per year)

• Free Learning Membership for you and your household (1-1 tutoring hours, unlimited use of on-demand services, and access to our online classes)

• A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help transform how the world learns!

• A fun, collaborative, and team-oriented work environment with plenty of training and a feedback-rich culture

 Note: There is no such thing as a “perfect” candidate, even if you don’t meet all the requirements for the position, you should apply. Everyone can grow at Varsity Tutors. We strongly encourage members of underrepresented groups and people of diverse backgrounds to apply. Apply now if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day! 

Varsity Tutors 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.