Head of Engineering / Founding Engineer 

An early stage start up that is building a new marketplace that allows experts in sports, music, computer science, language, gaming, and other categories to teach their passions through one-on-one and small group lessons.

As the Head of Engineering/Founding Engineer you will scale the platform and partner with the founder from day one. The company is backed by Tier 1 Venture Capital, Silicon Valley veterans , and professional athletes from the NBA.

Who you are: 

• You are an experienced, self-motivated, and product minded engineer who is seeking an opportunity to build their own team and help lead a company.
• You also have good product intuition and are excited about the opportunity to guide the product direction along with the engineering team.
• You will be working alongside a talented team supported by veteran industry experience and will architect the platform for category expansion and growth. 

Desired experience:

• 5+ years of full stack engineering experience 
• Passionate about taking ownership, driving scale and collaborating with a motivated team
• Can program in Typescript using Node.Js and libraries React & React Native 
• Worked with PostGres and can architect and design performant relational database schemas 
• Experience with Docker, Kuberenetes, and GCP 
• Familiar with a plurality of testing methodologies; i.e AAA, E2E 
• Familiar with a plurality of writing patterns; i.e MVC, Repository Pattern, Backend for Frontend