Our mission is to bring accessible, affordable, engaging, and highly effective higher education to the world. We are building an online university, "by Silicon Valley", that teaches the skills that industry employers need today, delivers credentials endorsed by employers, and educates at a fraction of the cost of traditional schools.
Belief in our mission, and the product, is a strong bonding force for our team. Many of us are self-taught, have taken online courses, or are even Udacity graduates ourselves. We are united in our belief that we are working to change the world for the better.
Our culture embraces experimentation, innovation, and big thinking. If you try something out and it doesn't work, that's totally okay! Just learn from it for the next thing you try. We move fast, and sometimes things can get a little chaotic, but you'll never be bored.
About 1/5 of the company works remote, and we are a remote-friendly team as well, with team members in several locations.
Our students and employees come from all across the planet, and from all sorts of backgrounds. We work to enable all our students to find new careers in technology, no matter what their previous path might look like. We recognize and appreciate this diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and there's nothing better than hearing back from a student that we've helped them land their dream job.
Our company at large also supports the various lifestyles, responsibilities, and personal circumstances of our employees by providing lactation rooms for new mothers, paid parental leave, flexible work arrangements (roughly 1 out of 5 employees works remote), and reimbursements for ongoing learning and professional development. We are committed to creating and maintaining workplaces, classrooms, forums, and more that are free of judgement, bias, or discrimination. In fact, if you have questions about what life is really like on our team, feel free to contact Amelia Lin on the Careers team.
You'll find many people here who have changed their career once or thrice, and you'll also find many inveterate self-teachers and passionate learners. It's rare to find someone here who isn't working on learning some new skill or other outside of work. Whether you were an opera singer or a financial advisor before you became an engineer, you are welcome here! We're a mix of ages, locations (lots of people work remote), parents and non-parents.
We're hiring for engineers because we have lots of ideas and we're moving fast, and it's time for our team to grow to keep up! Udacity already teams up with leading tech companies to craft our Nanodegree programs: industry credentials for today's jobs in technology. The Careers team’s charter is to help our students gain the career skills and opportunities they need to get and succeed in a job. You will build products that empower and enable our students to achieve their dream jobs, and be part of some of the most personal and important stories our students choose to share with us—their search for a new career. Come join our team, and help us build the best career services office your university never had.
Within the Careers team, you'll be working most closely with 2 other full stack engineers and 1 product manager, but also the rest of the Careers team, members of the Design and Data teams, and of course you will be a member of the larger Udacity Engineering team as well. We loosely follow Agile methodology and work in 1-week sprints, with daily standups, and we communicate a lot over Slack.
Unlimited vacation policy.