Senior/Staff Software Engineer

About Maven

Maven is reinventing our post-secondary education system from the ground up. We're starting with practical, professional courses on key skills taught by leading experts in your field. Think: learn to build agentic applications from a Staff Engineer at Amazon or a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. Our cohort-based model means our engagement rates are 80-90% instead of the 5-10% from video-based learning. Maven's marketplace has 500+ expert-led cohort-based courses, 70K+ student alumni, and 700K+ registered users. Today, we're direct to consumer but eventually we'll offer certificate programs, MBA-like programs, and sell directly to businesses.

We are founder-led; our CEO, Gagan, co-founded Udemy, and our CTO, Shreyans, was the first engineer at Venmo. Our business grew over 100% last year and is on track for profitability. We've raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz, First Round, and an incredible roster of angel investors.

The role

We’re looking for full-stack product engineers to own big parts of our fast growing marketplace including our marketplace storefront, next-gen course platform, and recommendation and data systems.

What makes this role great:

• High degree of ownership over our technical systems and product roadmap
• Work with a world class team (we've built big things at Google, Twitter, Venmo, Udemy, and more)
• Fast growing marketplace of highly-rated courses, including many million-dollar instructors
• Close knit team with the flexibility of remote work (in the US/Canada)

You should apply if you:

• Have 5+ years of experience shipping real features to a real user base (excluding personal or school projects)
• Are as comfortable dealing React hooks and data model design as with Postgres performance
• Exhibit a high degree of agency and conscientiousness in your work
• Are a crisp and thoughtful communicator

We use React+Nextjs, Python+FastAPI, Postgres+OpenSearch, OpenAI, dbt+Snowflake.

The team

We’re a team of 20, working remotely but meeting in person 4x a year. Many of us have worked together for 3+ years and the whole team works really well together.

I (Shreyans Bhansali, co-founder and CTO) built a lot of Venmo's earliest systems before starting, building, and selling Socratic - an early AI-powered learning app - to Google. My co-founder and CEO, Gagan Biyani, was a co-founder at Udemy. Our lead designer designed Twitter threads and the Airbnb listings page, and everyone on the team is equally capable.

We are closely connected to our instructors and students and learn from our frequent dialogues, effectively and openly debate decisions, and move with conviction but an open mind.

How to apply

Open to anyone in US/Canadian time zones.

Salary range: $170-220k, with strong equity and benefits.

Important: Email us at eng @ maven.com with your application. Do not bother with the form below (it can't be turned off). Send us a thoughtful but succinct note along with your LinkedIn and other informative links. Live projects are especially nice to see, as are links to personal sites.