Senior Learning Engineer
What you'll be doing:
As a Senior Learning Engineer,, you will be responsible for developing curriculum and leading learning initiatives for Enova’s engineers. This is a unique role within a new team at Enova, allowing you to make the position your own and help shape the future of the learning team. Similar to an internal coding bootcamp instructor, the audience is experienced engineers at varying levels and the technical topics evolve as our business grows. Building strong relationships within SE and other departments is key to ensure that our that learning programs support the growth of our people and our business.
You will also maintain several internal learning applications. Beyond the designed purpose for these tools to support our learning programs, they serve as a useful training ground to onboard our newly hired engineers.
Your core priorities will be to:
Conduct learning research and analysis in partnership with engineers and other business stakeholders to identify specific learning needs
Define explicit learning objectives and corresponding evaluation strategies for learning programs
Collaborate with subject matter experts to build compelling course content that improves knowledge retention and transfer
Craft engaging and effective learning programs on advanced software engineering topics
Support and evangelize informal and social learning throughout the software engineering team
Mentor newly hired software engineers as they complete the onboarding curriculum
Assist in management and mentorship of the Software Apprentice Program
Maintain and enhance 2 internally built Rails apps owned by the learning team
What you should have:
3-5 years experience working as a software engineer
Experience with our tech stack preferred (AWS, Ember, Go, PostgreSQL, Ruby, Rails, Swift)
Experience developing curriculum or serving as an instructor for software engineers
Familiarity with adult learning theory and instructional strategies and methodology
Forward thinking- you’re always evaluating what currently exists and thinking creatively about ways that it could be even better
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent preferred, but not required
Software Engineering Overview:
The Software Engineering Team, one of the largest groups in the company, is responsible and accountable for meeting the demands of our current and future businesses. We help create the “Tech” in FinTech.
We are structured into small full-stack teams, each aligned to specific business lines or core services. We code in RoR, Go, Java, and Swift. We use Ember and other JS frameworks for front-end development. The teams are responsible for defining and delivering solutions through smart interactive development.
Although we are divided into unique teams, our culture of collaboration promotes and encourages engagement across every team and department within the company - no team is a silo. This enables us to align our core values and create strong, best practices.
About Enova:
Enova is a leading provider of online financial services that leverages its advanced technology and analytics to provide access to credit for non-prime consumers and small businesses. Our roots are in Chicago, but we have served nearly 5 million customers through our six businesses in the U.S. and abroad. We pride ourselves on hiring smart and driven people who bring new and innovative ideas to the table. Our philosophy is, "Life’s short. Work some place awesome."
Many of us consider our people to be Enova’s best perk. But to sweeten the deal, we also have a pretty awesome list of conventional (and less conventional) perks and benefits including competitive salaries, health care benefits, a 401K matching plan, a revamped parental leave program (and brand new nursing rooms for our returning mothers!) summer hours, tuition reimbursement and a sabbatical program. And of course we also have the things you’d expect at a leading tech company in Chicago, such as the snacks, game room, onsite massages/barbers/nail technicians, monthly social events, and sporting sponsorships.
Our goal at Enova is to recruit, hire, develop and maintain a diverse workforce. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all persons and not discriminate in employment decisions by placing the most qualified person in each job, without regard to any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.