About the Role
Big Think+ is disrupting the traditional market of bland and generic training content taught by no-name moderators. We provide a highly-curated library of expert-led, L&D-designed lessons that enable transformation and drive culture by focusing on developing mindsets and behaviors instead of skills.
As a Software Engineer at Big Think+, you will plan and implement features from our Product Roadmap within our proprietary platform, helping to engage learners and enabling customers to see the results of their educational investments.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with a cross-functional team, including Product Management & Design, Sales, Marketing, and Educational Content Creators, to deliver impactful, user-centered solutions. Your expertise in SQL, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript frameworks like Svelte, combined with your focus on fostering collaboration within the engineering team, will be essential to our success.
What You’ll Do
- Enhance and Innovate the BT+ Platform – Leverage your Ruby on Rails experience to plan and implement features from our Product Roadmap.
- Customer data inquiry - Analyze customer data to extract insights and support data-driven product decisions.
- Integrate with Learning Systems – Assist with the integration of the Big Think+ platform with various Learning Management Systems (LMS), Learning Experience Platforms (LXP), and other third-party APIs.
- Develop and maintain documentation and test suites – Ensure comprehensive and up-to-date application documentation and test suites are in place, making them easily accessible and integral to the development process.
- Collaborate across the business – Partner with the Big Think+ product, content, and sales teams to understand customer needs and implement features that drive important outcomes.
What You’ll Need
- Positive, can-do attitude
- 2-5 years of experience working with web-based applications as a software engineer
- Experience in PostgreSQL or other SQL databases and how they inform application performance.
- Experience with Ruby on Rails
- Experience with JavaScript frameworks, like Svelte or similar
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, organizational, and time management skills
What You’ll Get out of the Opportunity
- Be a member of the Engineering team, with significant influence and autonomy to shape its growth as well as your own role
- Collaborative culture in a startup environment
- Competitive salary and benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability Insurance, 401(k) and more!
- Growth opportunities within a fast-growing company
- Work from home – we’ve been remote-first from inception
Worried that you don't tick every box for this role? Don't be. All we care about is your passion and talent. So no matter your background, we encourage you to break the mold and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day.
Top Skills
What We Do
We’re a media company that publishes stories about our changing world, for people who want to have a hand in changing it.
Each day, we release new videos and articles featuring passionate innovators who are solving humanity’s biggest challenges by thinking differently. From aerospace engineers in the Mojave Desert to entrepreneurs in South America’s biggest slum, our videos give you an intimate look at not only what they’re doing but also why they’re doing it, the obstacles they face, and what motivates them to keep driving forward.
We’re betting that after you watch these stories, you’ll come away with insights and inspiration you can use to make a difference in your own way.
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