Course Hero is scaling! We're looking for a results-oriented Staff Software Engineer to take ownership of Course Hero’s consumer-facing Site Search. You will be part of the Platform team and will be responsible for shipping compelling and engaging search and recommendations experiences that will help millions of students discover relevant, course-specific content that empowers them to graduate confident and prepared.
We expect you to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, and adapt to constantly evolving business needs.
Here are some ways you’ll make an impact!
- Design, implement, test, and maintain Course Hero’s Search Platform components in the context of a multi-tier, scalable, high-volume, and reliable distributed systems that perform 24x7.
- Use Elasticsearch/Solr infrastructure and search/ML techniques to seek exciting problems in relevance ranking and semantic search.
- Implement, extend, and modularize our federated search system architecture to meet 10x growth in search volume and diverse search intents from students, educators, and tutors.
- Collaborate with ML, UX, and product to conceptualize and execute on our exciting content discovery roadmap.
Are you our next Staff Software Engineer for Search?
- 8+ years experience developing search algorithms and applications using search engine toolkits like Elasticsearch, Opensearch or Solr.
- Proficient in object-oriented and functional programming
- Hands-on experience with developing and maintaining distributed systems
- Proficient in modern engineering languages (Python, Go,Java), microservices SOA architecture
- Creating and optimizing search DSL
- Data indexing (and index management) on search engines
- Python & Go REST/gRPC Services
- BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or have equivalent practical experience
- Ability to quickly understand technical and business requirements and be able to translate into technical design and implementation
Bonus Points
- Experience with text processing, NLP, and data pipelining using Spark or Athena
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS Ecosystem
- Has worked previously as part of a Search team (applications or infrastructure)
- Data pipelining (can do Airflow/Kafka pipelines for indexing to Elasticsearch and DynamoDB)
- Passionate about education
Benefits & Perks:
- Competitive salary
- Equity/stock options
- Annual performance bonus
- Health insurance coverage (7 Lacs for self and family)
- Life Insurance 3X the CTC
- Accidental Insurance 3X the CTC
Learning
- Learning and Development Policy Reimbursement of Courses
Flexibility
- Privilege Leave
- Paid Leaves
- Casual Leaves
- Mandatory Leaves
- Special Leaves
- Flexible Holiday
- Menstrual Leaves
- Maternity Leaves & Flexible Paternity Leave
- Compassionate Leave
- Marriage Leave
Work From Home
- Workstation Setup Reimbursement
- Internet Bill Reimbursement
- Remote Friendly culture
Fun
- Quarterly team and city meetings
- Annual Workations
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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement (EEO)
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion within our company. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or ability status. We will ensure that individuals who are differently abled are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment as provided to other applicants or employees. Please contact us to request accommodation.
About Course Hero:
Course Hero is on a mission to help students graduate, confident and prepared. The online learning platform offers over 60 million course-specific study resources created by and for students and educators, as well as 24/7 tutor help. More than 65,000 verified college educators use Course Hero to collaborate with other faculty and share resources to hone new strategies for instruction. Everyday, students, educators and tutors help more than 20 million students make every study hour count.
Join us on our mission!
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What We Do
Course Hero is an online learning platform with over 60 million course-specific study resources contributed by our community of students and educators, and produced by our team of educational content specialists in collaboration with subject experts.
You’ll find practice problems, study guides, videos, class notes, and step-by-step explanations for every subject you’re studying—from economics to literature, biology to history, accounting to psychology, and everything in between. Through Course Hero, you can quickly find what you need to learn deeply.
We work closely with educators to help support student learning and complement what’s happening in the classroom. We want to see more students walking up to the podium on graduation day, proud of what they’ve accomplished, and ready to build great lives for themselves. We aim to help them get there.
Why Work With Us
We foster a culture that promotes a healthy work-life balance and encourages wellbeing and personal development. Our employees are fans of our virtual-first work environment (bye bye commute), employee experience that extends beyond the office and holistic wellness, health, family planning and leave benefits.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Most employees work from home, within a 50-mile radius of our office hub which we use for in-person collaboration, brainstorming, and culture building
