Job details for
Director of Platform

Job Description

The Role:

Our client  is looking for a senior engineering leader to build and lead a platform engineering team. This role is vital to the future of our company and will be a technically-engaged, high-visibility position focused on initiatives related to the efficient operation and growth of our content library. It encompasses aspects of business growth such as search engine optimization (SEO) and conversion rate optimization (CRO), and processing millions of unique user-supplied documents.

Course Hero has grown into a platform of more than 10 million students and educators across the globe who are empowered to share and access educational resources every day. Our vision is a world where every student graduates, confident and prepared. To accomplish this, we aim to build the optimal learning destination for every course.

Here are some ways you'll make an impact:

• You'll provide inspirational leadership for an engineering group.
• You'll recruit, hire, and retain top-notch engineering managers and individual contributors.
• You'll translate business objectives into actionable development plans.
• You'll act as a product partner, providing insight on cost alternatives and possibilities in the product that others may not see.
• You'll ensure that development projects have sound technical architecture and use appropriate technology for a product with millions of customers and consumer web-scale traffic.
• You'll help us migrate our web monolith into a microservice platform.
• You'll drive acceleration of product development through the use of delivery and health metrics, monitoring, and KPIs.
• You'll champion product quality and the role of automated testing.
• You'll improve our technical brand internally and externally.

Are you our Director of Engineering - Platform?

• You have 10+ years working in software product development, with an emphasis on developing and operating large distributed systems.
• You have a strong entrepreneurial drive and desire to achieve big things.
• You have finely-tuned technical and architectural skills for software development.
• You have experience with microservices architecture.
• You have experience building and managing teams of 15 or more engineers.
• You have experience hiring and mentoring managers.
• You have experience working with teams using machine learning.
• You have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

This position reports to Course Hero’s VP Engineering - Core Products.

What We Offer You:

• Industry competitive salary and stock options
• Full medical coverage (medical, dental, vision)
• 401(k) program with matching to help you save for the future
• Educational assistance program to support lifelong learning
• Regularly planned team events and outings
• Free lunches twice a week, cafe discount, plus an endless snack and drink supply
• Commuter benefits, cell-phone allowance, and a free gym membership
• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact - education technology is revolutionizing the way we learn

About Us:

Our client envisions a world where every student graduates, confident and prepared. We are a privately held, mission-driven educational technology company that is profitable and growing. We’re building the optimal learning destination for every college course. Our clients’ students can access over 25 million course-specific study materials and study resources to enhance their supplemental and deep learning experiences. We see more students that are confident and prepared when they can quickly find what they need and learn deeply.

Or client has an awesome team and a really engaging culture. We are customer-focused, collaborative, responsible, gritty and we love to learn!  

We’re not the only ones that think we’re onto something big. Our client has been recognized as the 245th Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 500 and also 2018’s One of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area by San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal.

Read up on some of our recent news coverage, blog, and learn more about us to understand what it is like to work on our team.