\n\n\nDescription:\nWe are looking for Senior Front-End Engineers (full-time contractors) based in South America to join the engineering team to help with our ongoing growth and expansion! Your focus would be on building frontend experiences in React. Familiarity with backend services & technologies is a plus, particularly in Ruby on Rails. We have a complete CI/CD software lifecycle and an evolving services-oriented-architecture hosted in AWS. 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.\nAbout Nerdy:\nNerdy (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 Machine Learning and 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/.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nNerdy’s shareholder letters below explain the product and strategy and are the most effective way to learn about what the company is building.\n\nQ1-2024 Shareholder Letter\n\nQ4-2023 Shareholder Letter\n\nQ3-2023 Shareholder Letter\n\n\n\n \nQualifications:\n\n\nExperience with with React and Ruby on Rails is strongly preferred.\n\nExperience with deployment systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy).\n\nFamiliarity with AWS Services (e.g. RDS, Lambda, EC2, et cetera).\n\nFamiliarity with the Linux operating system and command-line tools.\n\nUnderstanding of OO design, algorithms, and data structures.\n\nAptitude to quickly learn new languages and technologies as necessary.\n\nExperience developing websites that are visited by thousands of visitors daily.\n\nExperience with enhancing SEO performance.\n\nUnderstand and appreciate that Nerdy is an apolitical company and that we can have the largest impact if we are united in our focus on helping people learn and not divided or distracted by advancing unrelated causes.\n\nComputer Science or related degree preferred.\n\nFluent in English.\n\n\n\n Responsibilities:\n\n\nWrite performant, maintainable code that is easy to read and well-documented.\n\nWrite automated tests to thoroughly validate the correctness of your code.\n\nDeploy large-scale web applications.\n\nHave a focus on quality, and operate iteratively to get from good to better.\n\nBe a part of your team’s on-call rotation; we all own our code end-to-end from development to deployment to operations.\n\nCome ready to learn from some of the best and brightest in the industry.\n\nWork independently and collaboratively in a dynamic and fast-moving team.\n\nBe effective in a team environment working with fellow engineers, product management, and design.\n\n\n\n\n \nNerdy Leadership Principles\nRelentless 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\n \nBenefits:\n\n\nCompetitive Pay (USD)\n\n\n* \nFully Remote Position\n\n\n\nFlexible Paid Time Off\n\n\n* \nFree Learning Membership for you and your household (1-1 tutoring hours, unlimited use of on-demand services, and access to our online classes)\n\n\n* \nWork for a leading U.S.-based learning technology company\n\n\n* \nA once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help transform how the world learns!\n\n\n* \nA fun, collaborative, and team-oriented work environment with plenty of training and a feedback-rich culture\n\n\n\n\n \nNerdy 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.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, React, Ruby, SEO, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan José, San José, Costa Rica

We're looking for talented senior engineers who are passionate about changing the way people learn languages. As a Cambly engineer, you'll be part of a small and fast-moving engineering team (~10 engineers and growing) where you'll have a large impact on all parts of our platform. We've been growing rapidly among language learners around the world, so you'll get to learn what it's like to join a fast growing startup that's creating opportunities for our students and tutors alike.\n\n\nAs a backend-focused Software Engineer, you'll be responsible for building and scaling a global on-demand video chat marketplace. Our app is simple, but there's a complex system behind the scenes making sure our rapidly growing community of students and tutors are being matched quickly for 1-on-1 tutoring sessions 24/7. You'll also be responsible for making sure we scale up best practices for backend development to maximize our uptime as we grow.\n\n\nOur backend is Flask + Gunicorn running on MongoDB. Redis is our PubSub backbone for powering our realtime features. Opentok & Agora power our video chat, while Algolia powers our tutor search. We use Elasticsearch, Kibana, Bigquery, Metabase, New Relic, Sentry, monitoring and metrics.\nOur Frontend is React + Redux.\n\n\n\n\nCome help us:\n\n\n\n\n* Conceive, design, build, and launch new user-facing features\n\n* Develop, release, and scale backend services and/or infrastructure\n\n* Think critically about the next shaping our software\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWork on projects like:\n\n\n\n\n* Scaling our Production Infrastructure, including, sharding and scaling a large-scale MongoDB; Scaling our pubsub infrastructure that powers our real-time features.\n\n* Building a framework for security & auditing of all actions that guarantees customer data is protected.\n\n* Improving our marketplace ecosystem: continuing to ensure students always find a great tutor for their needs, and tutors are able to fill their schedule with students.\n\n* Improve reliability in markets with less reliable internet infrastructure.\n\n* Expanding our data-access layer to support GraphQL access.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout you:\n\n\n\n\n* You have 5 years or more experience building and shipping python backend features quickly as part of a team.\n\n* You have 3 years or more building and maintaining high availability production infrastructure.\n\n* Experience working with MongoDB in production.\n\n* A passion for learning. You fearlessly dive into new and unfamiliar technologies.\n\n* A product-minded approach to engineering. You should be excited about working directly with our students, tutors, and our international team to make sure students have an amazing experience.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn a small and nimble team, every engineer should be able to learn new technologies quickly and jump in anywhere in our stack. While this position is specifically for backend, you should have experience using or be excited about learning all the parts of Cambly including iOS, Android, and React.js.\n\nInterested in joining the team, but don’t think this role is the best fit for you? View our other positions.\n\nWe are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We believe in order to thrive, businesses need a diverse team and leadership. We welcome every background, identity, abilities, and mindset to join us on our mission to make high quality English education for all.  Everyone is welcome here.  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Backend, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, English, Video, Education and Python jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nWho We Are\nQuimbee is one of the most widely used e-learning platforms for law students in the United States. Simply put, our mission is to help law students get A's in their law school courses.\nSince 2007, Quimbee has helped over a hundred thousand law students prepare for classes and final exams. We provide law students with access to a comprehensive database of case summaries, video lessons, practice questions, a legal dictionary, and a growing library of content. We have become one of the most widely used and trusted sites for law students, serving both institutional clients, such as Yale University, American University and University of Illinois, as well as thousands of individual law students.\nWe prefer a small and highly effective engineering team, so every new team member is vital to the success of the company.\nWho Were Looking For\nYou must be an experienced developer with a passion for operations tasks. Technically were mostly interested in your recent DevOps and software development experience, from writing back-end code for a website to optimizing the SQL queries to dealing with search engines, monitoring and performance, and everything in between. But your focus will be on optimizing our app's code, its underlying architecture, and infrastructure so that we minimize surprises while maximizing performance at all levels.\nAs a Site Reliability Engineer, you are responsible for maintaining our core platform and services which our web (Ruby on Rails) and mobile app (React Native) users depend on. As our first SRE, you'll have the opportunity to help us define and shape processes, tools, and best practices in the context of our platform. You'll work closely with our team of developers to determine the current state of our platform as well as defining the future of it.\nWe're looking for collaborative, detail-oriented people who are ready for a challenge. In this role, you'll be responsible for working on the critical task of ensuring our backend systems are rock solid and scalable. Strong candidates will bring strong engineering and operations acumen, combined with the ability to move fast (and fix things).\nYou have to have a special care for writing maintainable and reusable code that every developer on our team can work with, and an ability to collaborate well with cross-functional teams.\nYoull join a small tech team, so your voice will be heard when we need to make new technical decisions as our product grows. We expect you to go beyond coding to give input on the product roadmap, design, and architecture.\nWe look for:\n * A Ruby developer. You have deep software engineering experience and are comfortable writing code in Ruby as well as at least one other programming language.\n * A DevOps advocate. You believe in the benefits of immutable infrastructure and understand what it takes to implement it from the operating system level up to datacenter deployments.\n * A data-driven engineer. You know the difference between an MTTR and MTTD and have the skills necessary to optimize them.\n * A great process and code debugger. You feel comfortable leading robust and thorough root cause analysis (RCA) sessions to attack problems at their core and ensure they dont recur.\n * A self-manager. You take responsibility for projects from idea to completion, proactively seeking assistance as needed while guiding the work to successful outcomes.\n * A versatile engineer. You know what you dont know and feel comfortable learning new skills. Youre not ashamed of recognizing mistakes and take measures to avoid falling again.\n * A team player. You share code-ownership as much as possible. You don't mind fixing other peoples code or stepping in to help a teammate.\n * A minimalist. You believe a new feature should be built only when the evidence supports it. Youre willing to push back when you believe this rule is being ignored or violated.\n * A great communicator. You communicate your ideas, feedback, and criticism thoroughly, clearly, and courteously. You believe theres no such thing as over-explaining or over-clarifying because thats how miscommunication is avoided.\n \n\n* A business-minded engineer. You have deep understanding of the importance of building maintainable, efficient, clean code, while balancing that with the urgency of the business needs.\n\n\nTask Examples\nWorking with us, you could be asked to (solo or as part of a team):\n * Create and maintain documentation about our platform and all the 3rd party services it depends on, defining a plan of development for failover mechanisms to improve our platform's resilience.\n * Investigate issues reported by our automated systems, or our customer support or QA teams, determine impact and root cause, then prioritize and document them, and solve them yourself when possible or sync with our devs team to solve it.\n * Streamline our deployments process so that they are as smooth as possible both for our users as well as for our teams, considering the possibility of having to rollback.\n * Educate engineers throughout the company on how to ensure their projects meet our reliability, performance, and security requirements.\n * Reduce the server-side and front-end latency of our application to deliver a lightning fast user experience.\n * Optimize our hosting bill by increasing throughput and resource efficiency, while planning capacity for the next two years of growth.\n * Determine and configure a core set of metrics and alerts to make sure our apps and servers are running smoothly and that we can react fast if something bad happens.\n * Develop and maintain performance and load tests.\n * Possible on-call responsibilities.\n \n\n\nBenefits\n\nWhat We Offer\n * Join a small team who loves what they do.\n * Work from home.\n * A competitive salary.\n * Healthcare coverage (including dental) for you and your family.\n * Untracked paid time off and sick leave.\n * 401(k) with 3% company matching.\n \n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Admin, Engineer, Sys Admin, React, DevOps, Video, Ruby, Mobile, Legal and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n