OpenSesame helps develop the world's most productive and admired workforces. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world's top publishers, we are here to help you every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to your core competencies, syncing them with your LMS to increasing utilization and improving your L&D programs. Not only will you have the flexibility of multiple purchasing options from OpenSesame, you'll find it simple to use and administer your e-learning courses. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com/about.

About The Team

Our Delivery team builds the systems that allow our customers to effortlessly deliver courses to their learners. This includes building API integrations with our partners, updating CourseCloud (our simplified course delivery platform for small businesses), and facilitating the ability to download course packages when an integration may not exist.

About The Job

Our team has a strong culture of working in an agile, continuous improvement and automation environment. We recognize the need to always improve, to look objectively at where things are getting better or worse, and take action. You will be expected to be a great engineer, teaching, learning, mentoring, planning and most of all, developing systems that will move OpenSesame forward.

We're looking for a self-motivated, hands-on engineer, who will be responsible for working on our core platform. The desired candidate will be a well-rounded developer, who is not afraid to jump into any level of the stack and has proven experience in web development, a flexible attitude and aptitude to learn and share. This person enjoys working in a fast-paced agile environment, cares about their decisions, and is focused on quality driven development.

Job Description:

• Experience contributing, upgrading and designing solutions for large open source projects.
• Strong in PHP, Javascript, mustache, behat, phpunit
• Have a background in continuous build and deployment, in particular automation of environment creation and deployment in AWS and other cloud environments.
• Be a fearless automator able to read and write multiple languages to facilitate whatever is needed.
• Lead projects from technical discovery to delivery while writing testable and well-documented frontend and backend code,
• Design, develop, and deliver software systems that provide or support new product features.
• Provide code review to all team members to ensure code quality is up to par and to elevate teammates
• Document existing and new architecture to create a better overall understanding of our current architecture and the future vision of where we want it to be.
• Write tests for existing and created code to ensure compatibility and stability
• Have a strong software engineering background to keep automation well factored and under automation tests whenever possible.

Performance Objectives

• 3 Months
  • Regularly contribute to technical planning for components of the project
  • Performing detailed code review
  • Meeting regularly with other senior and staff software engineers in the company work on the big picture.
  • Lead by example. Follow the standards and hold others to them.
• 6 Months
  • Comfortable leading development of large new features
  • Identify and prioritize improvements to new or existing systems
  • Take part in working groups for a key engineering initiative
  • Work with Product to identify pieces of work that can be done now vs later.
• 12 Months
  • Lead a working group to help implement new technology or standardize a pattern across engineering
  • Take ownership of a specific area of the codebase becoming a source of knowledge for the team
  • On track for promotion to Staff Software Engineer in the next year or two.

Qualifications

• Experience building large web applications in a distributed environment and can make pragmatic engineering decisions
• Interest in working full-stack, from optimizing database transactions to building distributed systems and frontend web applications and a track record of pursuing self-directed side projects, research, or open source projects
• Strong database fundamentals including SQL, performance and schema design.
• Strong systems fundamentals including multi-threading, IO subsystem and scheduling.

Our tech stack is outlined below, however, we strongly believe in using the right technology for a given job and in constantly experimenting to see what new technology can do for us. That being said we have systems using or implemented in:

• PHP
• Javascript
• Terraform
• Docker
• AWS

Performance Driven: We're looking for self-starters with a track record of delivering excellent results, but we're highly selective about who we hire. We don't focus on typical job requirements, instead, we're interested in specific examples from your past experiences. All positions can be based anywhere in the US, and require up to 15 days of travel per year, with senior management and leadership teams requiring up to 35 days.

Compensation: At OpenSesame, we offer a comprehensive benefits package to employees upon hire, including ISOs, health insurance, 401(k) matching, and paid time off. We carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors, relying on market data to determine compensation and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity: OpenSesame is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer that values and welcomes diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of various legally protected characteristics, including criminal history, and strive to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. We prioritize safety and security and may use your information accordingly, and you can contact us for assistance or accommodations during the job application process. For more information on our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, click the provided link.

Pay Transparency: At OpenSesame, we prioritize pay transparency, fairness, and equity to create a positive and inclusive work environment, regularly reviewing our compensation practices to align with our values and goals. We provide competitive and fair compensation to our employees based on their skills, experience, and performance.

CPRA (California Candidates): When you submit your application, OpenSesame may collect and use your personal information in accordance with our privacy policy and the CPRA. This may include personal details and employment history, and will only be used for employment-related purposes. We may share this information with third-party service providers, but we will not sell it to third parties. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us, and for more information on your rights under the CPRA, refer to our privacy policy or the California Attorney General's website.

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