Overview:
We are looking for talented Senior Back-end Software Engineers to help with our ongoing growth and expansion! Varsity Tutors is a live learning platform that connects students and professionals with personalized instruction to achieve any goal. To date, students have accessed more than three million hours of live instruction on the platform.
We take great pride in the quality of our code, our processes, and our services. We have a complete CI/CD software lifecycle and an evolving services-oriented-architecture hosted in AWS. We operate in a highly collaborative environment with Product and Design to build innovative and high quality learning experiences for students. At Varsity Tutors, engineers do not just write code, they actively participate in the conversation on what and how to build the systems and solutions that matter to learners all around the world.
About Nerdy:
At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) - the company behind Varsity Tutors - we're redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI™ platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale. We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you'd bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.
Fortune favors the bold. Join us.
How we compete:
If you're a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition, personal responsibility, and the chance to redefine how the world learns - while continually stretching the limits of what generative AI can do - come do the most ambitious and rewarding work of your career here. Learn more at nerdy.com.
Nerdy's shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy:
Qualifications:
Experience with working with one or more of the following:
Golang
Ruby on Rails
Experience with deployment systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy).
Familiarity with AWS Services (e.g. RDS, Lambda, EC2, et cetera).
Familiarity with the Linux operating system and command-line tools.
Understanding of OO design, algorithms, and data structures.
Aptitude to quickly learn new languages and technologies as necessary.
Understand and appreciate that Nerdy is an apolitical company and that we can have the largest impact if we are united in our focus on helping people learn and not divided or distracted by advancing unrelated causes.
Computer Science or related degree preferred.
Fluent in English.
Responsibilities:
Unlock Your Full Potential at Nerdy:
Join our worldwide team—work from home, get great pay, and help shape the future of learning. Here's what you get:
Unleash Your Potential at Nerdy:
At Nerdy, you'll earn your success through meritocracy and exceptional outcomes. Our benefits reward performance and initiative:
The Bottom Line:
If you're driven by impact, energized by ownership, and excited to help shape what's next, you'll thrive here. We move fast, think big, and reward those who deliver. This isn't a traditional corporate environment - it's a place to do the most meaningful work of your career.
At Varsity Tutors, we value the diversity of thoughts, ideas, experience, and backgrounds that drives the fulfillment of our mission of helping people learn.
Varsity Tutors values the importance of engaging with our own communities and provides employees with paid time off to give back. Employees receive 8-hours of volunteer time off ( VTO ) to do charity work or provide local service.