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.

We’re looking for a unique talent to join our software engineering team. Already an established, profitable consumer business, our enterprise platform is growing exponentially, and we’re looking for an experienced software engineer with aspirations to coordinate high value partnerships through excellent sales and software engineering.

What you’ll do

You will have technical ownership of enterprise engagements and integrations between our learning platform–MyGA–and our B2B clients’ systems, working directly with enterprise clients  on their engagements.

You’ll have a comprehensive knowledge of our products, their capabilities and their APIs, being able to speak directly with our clients’ decision makers and technical experts on how to maximize the value of their engagement.

Your expertise with single sign-on will enable hundreds of thousands of learners across the globe to onboard with our systems quickly and easily.

Your thorough understanding of API design and development will help guide partners through the process of grokking and building software against our systems, as well as understanding their requirements and implementing them into our software, and helping to make the software more resilient.

Who you are

We’re looking for a uniquely talented individual who is both an experienced software engineer, and an excellent communicator and problem solver. You should have experience in coordinating software projects and managing stakeholder expectations, both internal and external. Ideally, your experience would include:

  • Building software with Ruby, the Ruby on Rails framework, and its related ecosystem
  • Implementing and configuring single sign-on with SAML, integrating with third-parties using Active Directory, IBM Cloud Identity, etc
  • Designing, expanding and reinforcing versioned, high-trafficked production APIs and related tools
  • Collaborating cross-functionally with enterprise sales and engagement, design, and product management
  • Communicating directly with technical and non-technical partners to plan efficient engagements, translating complex technical concepts into business friendly language for stakeholders, and business priorities into deliverables
  • Coordinating technical scoping and implementation across multiple product teams and clients’ technical teams, including managing deliverables and timelines
  • Identifying areas of opportunity for improvement and iteration in the products and services we offer external clients

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.