Technical Lead Engineering 360Learning

Our R&D team gathers ~100 engineers divided into ~15 product and technical squads. Each product squad includes developers, product managers and designers. They are paramount to 360Learning’s response to our increasingly demanding customers and are strategic players for the growth of the company. 

Today, we need someone to drive the Technical vision and coach the other developers in the Analytics Squad. We created the Tech Lead role to help developers with the technical aspects of their jobs, such as coding and planning, and coordinate the delivery timeline with Product Managers and Product Designers. As a Technical Lead you will: 

• be the point of contact for all technical topics from the squad (you can then redirect to another member of the squad)

• be  the coach for the other developers of the squad (do Performance reviews and Career Path assessments)

• keep coding since management will take ~20% of your time

• participate in monthly meetings altogether with CTO and Engineering Director to celebrate successes and discuss technical or organizational challenges

You will report directly to the VP Engineering & Engineering Director

Within 1 month you will:

• Discover 360Learning, its platform, its teams and its culture
• Become familiar with how our R&D way of working
• Understand the team's processes

Within 3 months you will:

• Support your product squad: each squad has clear goals for innovation (e.g. driving users to create more courses), while also maintaining and improving product features and codebase that fall under its scope
• Follow and coach the software engineers of your squad
• Start identifying our developers' key strengths and areas of improvement to help them grow
• Solve proactively challenges the developers are facing
• Lead Performance Reviews and Career Path assessments calibration 
• Work with the CPTO and the Engineering Director on maintaining your squad’s engagement

Within 6 months you will:

• Share your best practices within the team
• Create your own courses on the 360Learning platform
• Suggest and implement process improvements in the squad
• Maintain a good team spirit, for instance by organizing team-building activities (sync or async)
• Ensure your team is able to ship valuable features, while maintaining the timing and the quality
• Work with the product manager to define the product vision and set the technical direction for that part of our platform
• Join cross-team initiatives (e.g. organizing Hackathons)

Within 12 months you will:

• Share process improvements with all the squads, and help them implement these changes
• Push for technical innovations in the squad and outside
• Identify the career next steps of your team members and define an action plan to reach them

The Skill Set:

• You have either formally or informally served as a tech lead/mentor/coach for a team of software engineers working on a Saas platform for 2+ years.
• You have led technical initiatives in an environment where performance, reliability, and accuracy are paramount and where “feature development” and roadmaps are measured in months and quarters.
• You have significant full stack programming experience including experience with Agile methodologies, SaaS software architecture, and modern programming languages
• You have a product-oriented mindset and care deeply about the customers and the customer experience.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills
• Fluent English (US/UK) / B2 level or equivalent (FR)
• Enthusiasm for our working environment explained here: https://bit.ly/Convexity360L

What we offer:

• Compensation: Package includes base salary and equity 📈
• Benefits/Perks: Work From Home stipend, RTT, lunch vouchers, medical insurance, gym subscription, 1 month parental leave for the second parent. 
• Balance: Flexible hours, full remote work possible anywhere in France 🏠
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: We have 6 active ERGs including Mental Health, Environmental/Sustainability, Women, Parents, LGBTQIA2S+, and Ethnic Diversity. Each group has at least one executive team member serving as a member of the group, bringing greater awareness to each group’s activities and providing a quick path to impact 🤝
• Corporate Social Responsibility: Review our CSR Charter: 360learning.com/blog/corporate-social-responsibility-charter 🌎🌏🌍
• Culture: A framework that will make you successful - envision what's it like to join 360Learning from onboarding to ramp-up, and beyond: 🚀👩🏻‍💻🏆https://360learning.com/blog/360learner-journey/

Interview Process:

• Phone Screen with our Talent Acquisition Manager
• Technical Test on HackerRank
• Discovery Meeting with one of our Software Engineers
• Case Study with an Engineering Director and our VP Engineering
• Culture Fit with an Engineering Director
• Ref Checks
• Offer!

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Who We Are

360Learning enables companies to upskill from within by turning their experts into champions for employee, customer, and partner growth. With our LMS for collaborative learning, Learning & Development teams can accelerate upskilling with the help of internal experts instead of slow top-down training. 360Learning is the easiest way to onboard and upskill employees, train customer-facing teams, and enable customers and partners–all from one place.

360Learning powers the future of work at 1,700 organizations. Founded in 2013, 360Learning has raised $240 million with 400+ team members across North America and EMEA.

Learning Includes Everyone.

In concert with our culture, 360Learning believes learning includes everyone and that means embracing the strengths of diversity, connectedness, and inclusion. Through conscientious efforts, our global footprint celebrates cultures, perspectives, and experiences from all over the world to support our platform that is built for all regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, veteran status or any other aspect which makes an individual unique or protected by laws and regulations in the locations where we operate. Thus, 360Learning is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, and we commit to continue this throughout our processes for recruitment, compensation, benefits, performance, promotion, and all other conditions and terms of employment. We want to learn from and with you!