Job description
About Maven
Maven is reinventing professional education. Instead of taking 2 years for a Master’s, we believe professionals should learn every year, from real-world experts. Our marketplace has over 500 expert-led cohort-based courses focused on the critical skills needed to succeed. We encourage you to explore them, and read their reviews, to get an idea of the transformative learning experiences and career growth that we enable. And then think about what Maven could be at scale.
We are founder-led; our CEO, Gagan, co-founded Udemy, and our CTO, Shreyans, was the first engineer at Venmo. Our small team is incredible and momentum is building; we grew over 100% last year. We’ve raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz, First Round, and a supportive network of industry angels and are on track for profitability.
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 me at my first name @ maven.com with your application. Do not bother with the form below (it can’t be turned off). Send me 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.
