We’re always excited to welcome and encourage anyone from non-traditional backgrounds to apply, so please, don’t sweat the requirements lists too much! It’s important to note that including a cover letter which details your interest in Brilliant and why you feel you’d be a great fit for this position will be required to be considered.

Engineers at Brilliant work closely with members of our Product, Design, and Content teams in cross-disciplinary pods to solve important problems for our learners. Currently, we’re hiring product engineers for the following areas:

Learning Engines engineers enable Brilliant’s unique interactive learning experiences by developing and maintaining the tooling that our content authors use to build powerful, compelling, and effective lessons and interactives.

User Motivation & Game Mechanics engineers keep learners coming back for more through a series of user motivation systems that support structured, motivating progression through our content.

Interactive education is in its infancy: we’ve only scratched the surface of what’s possible with computer-based pedagogy. Our work helps people across Brilliant teach topics from vector calculus to neural networks in an interactive way. Come build the future of interactive learning with us!

Responsibilities

• • Bring new features from conception to completion, helping people around the world to learn more effectively by contributing code across our entire stack.
  • Be mindful of the “big picture” from both a technical perspective and a business one, keeping your pod on track in terms of “building the right thing” and “building the thing right”.
  • Exercise a high degree of autonomy and technical authority on a team that trusts you to do what’s right for our users but is there to support you when you need it.
  • Contribute to a culture of excellence within your pod, setting high standards for candor and mutual accountability, and striking a careful balance between velocity and quality.
  • Advocate for initiatives that will improve developer experience for Brilliant’s engineers and user experience for Brilliant’s users.
  • Frequently ask: How does this impact our learners?

Who are you?

• • You have at least 2 years of professional experience in software engineering.
  • You got into programming because you’re motivated by solving users’ problems.
  • You’re capable of working across the stack, and you’re most energized when owning feature implementations end-to-end.
  • You enjoy solving technical challenges in a way simple enough for an intern to understand and build upon. You avoid introducing complex, novel, or “clever” solutions. You write code for humans, not for computers.
  • You’re excited to collaborate closely with talented engineers, product managers, and designers. You enjoy solving problems as a team, pair-programming, and sharing knowledge. You want to be a mentor and to be mentored.
  • You have deep experience with a few languages and frameworks, and you know what you do and do not like about them. You believe in using the right tool for the job — even when it’s an unfamiliar one, and especially when it’s a boring one. You stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and patterns, recognizing the differences between a game-changer and a passing fad.
  • You have a favorite product and can articulate your perspective on what makes using it delightful. You often think about how the products you use could be better.