At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 31 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift. All salaries ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region.
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If you are an Internal Candidate, please apply via our Internal Job Board.
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At Guild, we uphold our Core Values in everything we do. Our team emphasizes our Core Values in the following ways:
- Nurture A Learner’s Mindset - using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and development areas
- Build Shared Success - building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Be an Owner - holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
- Create Belonging - recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to our company
Guild is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to work with our applied learning team! This role requires a highly experienced engineer with a passion for building complex B2B SaaS products. You will lead the technical design and actively participate in the development process, leveraging your full-stack development experience to quickly bring new product capabilities to life and iterate on them to meet market demand and scale with growth. You will work within a diverse team to accelerate Guild’s mission and expand our market presence.
Role Responsibilities:
- Rapidly deliver working capabilities to the market, learn from customer feedback, and iterate upon them over time.
- Express the technical product vision in the form of models and technical designs.
- Drive accelerated delivery by enabling other engineers to contribute and take ownership.
- Leverage established patterns, practices, technologies, and platform components where applicable and make sound decisions to diverge from these when appropriate.
- Be accountable for solution accuracy, timeliness, efficiency, reliability, performance, and flexibility.
- Gain an understanding of existing operational business practices to design and build solutions that optimize for outcomes and scale.
- Contribute to Guild’s platform inventory and advance our patterns, practices, and overall technical abilities.
- Build trust with Guild stakeholders and establish a reputation for dependability and quality.
- Mentor other engineers and set the bar for technical excellence through code/design reviews, pair programming, and other interactions.
Role Competencies:
- 15+ years of experience designing and developing enterprise SaaS solutions.
- Experience in a scale-up SaaS business is ideal.
- Proficiency in technical design and synthesis of new products and platforms within an existing complex environment and problem domain.
- Ability to lead and implement technical transformation, getting products to market quickly by combining existing assets and synthesizing new ones.
- Full-stack development skills, with expertise in building microservices and event-driven architectures in AWS.
- Proficiency in Typescript, Python, AWS Lambda, containerized workloads, AWS RDS/Postgres, DocumentDB/Mongo, and other AWS persistence mechanisms.
- Ensuring software quality through effective test automation.
- Experience with CI/CD/DevOps using tools like GitHub, AWS CDK, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
- Skills in system performance modeling and monitoring.
- Experience in software quality assurance and test automation.
- Capability to initiate and lead change.
We feel passionately about equal pay for equal work, and transparency in compensation is one vehicle to achieve that. Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a base salary range of $210,000-$247,500, variable compensation, as well as company stock options.
At Guild, we unlock the talent and economic potential of America’s workforce for employees and their companies. We partner with the nation’s largest employers—including Walmart, Chipotle, Discover, Hilton, Macy’s, Target, and The Walt Disney Company—to create cultures of opportunity that help them attract and retain top talent, while building the workforce of the future from within. By using our proprietary Career Opportunity Platform to develop education and learning programs that work in the real-world, thousands of employees at those companies have gained the skills, knowledge, and guidance they need to build a brighter future for themselves and their families—all without paying for tuition or career services on their own.
Guild is female-founded and a certified B Corp. The company has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 list, CNBC Disruptor50 list three years in a row, Inc. Best Led Companies list, Fast Co. World Changing Ideas list and the B Lab Best for the World list among many others.
Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
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What We Do
Guild’s Career Opportunity Platform™ enables forward-thinking employers to invest in their employees, unlocking life-changing opportunities for personal and professional growth through education and learning programs, career development, and one-on-one coaching. Guild partners with the nation’s largest employers — including Walmart, Chipotle, Discover, Hilton, Macy’s, Target, Providence Health, and The Walt Disney Company — to create cultures of opportunity that will help them attract and retain top talent, and build the workforce of the future. Guild offers a marketplace of curated education and learning programs designed for what working adults need to succeed in their programs. Layered onto that is support, guidance, and resources at every step to help ensure the new skills employees are building translate into career pathways that are in demand at their companies — all without paying for tuition or career services on their own.
Why Work With Us
As a certified B-corp with a double-bottom line business model that does well by doing good, we're looking for people who want to help us expand economic opportunity through education. You’ll join a driven and collaborative team, be challenged every day and go home knowing you’re helping to make a difference in the lives of working adults.
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