Overview

Our vision is of a global community of individuals empowered to pursue the work they love. Our mission is to grow that community by transforming millions of thinkers into creators.

Since 2011, General Assembly has transformed tens of thousands of careers through pioneering, experiential education in today’s most in-demand skills. As featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times, GA offers training in web development, data, design, business, and more, both online and at campuses around the world. Our global professional community boasts 40,000 full- and part-time alumni — and counting.

GA has a remote-friendly culture with offices around the world. If you prefer the office, our headquarters are located in New York City. Twice a year, the entire Product team gets together in New York for a week of team building, workshops, lightning talks, urban adventures, and an epic hackathon.

Who you are

You will lead a crucial team responsible for enabling the technical tools and solutions that aim to efficiently usher our world-class learning products directly to our consumer and enterprise users.  We are looking for an excellent communicator and problem solver that can demonstrate having partnered with Engineers, Product Managers, Designers and other disciplines to reliably and consistently guide their team to exceptional results.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee multiple projects across different teams within an Engineering department with mastery understanding of dependency management in complex projects
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to successfully partner with cross-functional teams and business stakeholders to help drive the product roadmap
  • Be a mentor and coach to your team, fostering ownership, guiding personal growth, and constantly striving to raise the bar on delivery performance and quality
  • Manage your team’s workload, recognizing and planning for both the immediate and upcoming technical and business needs
  • Be able to frame every company objective in a way that highlights its contribution to our mission and the benefits to our users
  • Serve as the tech lead for your tech lead by helping them resolve complex technical issues
  • Get insanely excited by at least 1 thing that has absolutely nothing to do with computers

Qualifications

  • 8+ years experience software design, development and architecture
  • 3+ years experience leading full stack development software teams
  • Hands-on proven technical expertise in any of the following areas: Ruby, Go, Java or JavaScript

Your benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Generous parental leave
  • Annual education allowance
  • Gym allowance
  • Apple Macbook Pro and related equipment

USA-specific benefits include a flexible paid-time off policy, 401k, company phone and health, dental and vision insurance. We have similar benefits in non-USA locations.

Please note that we can presently only accept applications in the following locations:

  • USA: CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, KS, MA, NY, NC, TX, VA, WA
  • Canada: Toronto
  • Europe: Germany, United Kingdom

About General Assembly

General Assembly (GA) is a global educational company on a mission to empower a global community to pursue work they love.

Focusing on the most relevant and in-demand skills across data, design, business and technology, GA is confronting a skills gap through best-in-class instruction and providing access to opportunities.

GA works with students online and in person across 15 campuses in 4 continents. GA also works with companies as partners in course development and graduate placement as well as helps companies stay competitive in today's digital landscape. Additionally, GA’s focus on affordable and accessible education combined with our education-to-employment approach is helping to create a diverse talent pipeline.

We also partner with Fortune 500 companies to spur innovation through increased digital fluency and more effective approaches to collaboration.

Recently voted Fast Company’s #1 Most Innovative Company in Education and #28 Most Innovative Company in the world, General Assembly is a venture-backed, post-Series C, NYC-based startup in our fourth year.

We’re constantly looking for talented individuals — regardless of height or hair color — to join our growing team. Please review our list of positions to find current openings. If you don't see a good match, check back frequently. New roles are posted often.