The Senior Software Engineer II will drive growth strategies, lead complex experiments, architect scalable systems, integrate platforms, and provide technical leadership within the Growth team.
Articulate is looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to join our amazing Growth team! This role is for an experienced engineer who independently delivers meaningful work, exercises strong technical judgment, and consistently raises the quality and effectiveness of the team.
The Growth Engineering team at Articulate focuses on expanding our customer base and accelerating revenue growth through hypothesis-driven product development. We design, build, and run experiments that directly influence acquisition, activation, and monetization, turning insights into impact. Partnering closely with product, design, data, and marketing, our engineers work across the stack to ship measurable improvements, learn quickly from real user behavior, and help shape Articulate’s expansion beyond traditional learning and development audiences.
What you'll do:
- Drive Growth Strategy Through Engineering: Partner with product and design to define and execute growth strategies that directly impact revenue, customer acquisition, and market expansion.
- Lead Complex Experiments: Design, implement, and analyze sophisticated growth experiments, ensuring statistical rigor, high-quality telemetry, and actionable insights.
- Architect and Scale Systems: Design, evolve, and scale secure, reliable, and observable full-stack systems that support experimentation, personalization, and integrations with external platforms.
- Own Platform-Level Integrations: Lead integrations with marketing, analytics, and customer engagement platforms in a scalable, maintainable, and compliant way.
- Provide Technical Leadership: Set technical direction, mentor senior and mid-level engineers, and influence engineering practices beyond your immediate team.
- Balance Speed and Sustainability: Make principled tradeoffs that balance rapid experimentation with long-term quality, scalability, and maintainability.
- Champion Accessibility and Inclusion: Ensure accessibility and inclusive design principles are embedded in system design and implementation.
- Strengthen the Organization: Contribute to broader engineering strategy, operational excellence, and the evolution of Growth Engineering as a critical revenue-driving function.
What you should have:
- Deep full-stack expertise, with the ability to design, evolve, and scale complex systems using Node.js, Postgres, Docker, React, and TypeScript (typically gained with 8+ years of experience working in a software engineering environment)
- Deep expertise in data analysis, SQL, and implementing high-quality telemetry to measure user behavior and experiment outcomes.
- Proficiency building and operating production services on AWS, with strong ownership of reliability, performance, and observability using tools like Datadog or equivalent APMs.
- Experience designing and building secure, compliant, distributed applications, with a strong focus on scalability, observability, and resilience.
- Significant experience leading growth experiments, including A/B testing, experiment design, and analysis to inform product decisions.
- Experience integrating with marketing, analytics, or customer engagement platforms in a scalable and maintainable way.
- Deep experience partnering with design and product to define strategy, shape roadmaps, and make principled tradeoffs that balance user needs and business goals.
- A demonstrated track record of technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and influencing engineering direction beyond your immediate team.
- Strong engineering judgment, with the ability to balance speed of delivery with long-term quality, scalability, and maintainability.
- Demonstrated commitment to accessibility and inclusive design, with the ability to advocate for best practices and ensure they are reflected in implementation.
Nice to haves:
- Experience designing or working with event-driven architectures, including asynchronous communication patterns, message queues, or streaming systems.
- Familiarity with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, including deploying, operating, or troubleshooting containerized services in production environments.
- Experience working with modern data platforms such as Snowflake, including querying, modeling, or integrating product and experimentation data.
About us
Articulate Global, LLC, is the leading SaaS provider of creator platforms for online workplace training. Founded by Adam Schwartz in 2002, Articulate provides creator tools and services that make it simple for enterprises and SMBs to develop, deliver, and analyze online workplace training that’s engaging and effective. Increasingly, organizations must reskill employees for ever-changing remote and hybrid work environments, create learning cultures that attract and retain employees in a tight labor market, and use training to build more equitable, empowering, and engaging workplaces. Articulate helps organizations address these critical business needs with its creator platform for workplace training. Articulate 360—a suite of creator tools for online courses—was named the 7th most-loved product in the world by TrustRadius in 2021. And Rise—an all-in-one online training system that makes online training easy to create, enjoyable to take, and simple to manage—is the first creator platform for SMBs and departments within the enterprise. Articulate has more than 118,000 customers in 170 countries and counts all 100 of the Fortune 100 companies as customers.
Named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces 2022 and a leader in building a human-centered organization, Articulate is guided by a commitment to provide the best value to customers, do right by employees, and create an equitable, empowering workplace for all. As a human-centered organization, we honor people’s humanity knowing that each person’s unique history, vulnerabilities, and social location inform how we show up with one another. We embrace our connectedness, aware that what we do and say impacts others. We give each other grace because we are all works in progress, learning and evolving every day. And we take responsibility for ourselves and are serious about our accountability to each other. In all we do, we strive to create an equitable, sustainable, and empowering workplace while we drive results for the business and make a positive impact in the world. Read more about our values here.
Articulate Global, LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All employment decisions at Articulate are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications directly related to the job, without regard to any protected characteristic or class, including, but not limited to, race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. Qualified candidates with criminal histories will be considered for this role in a manner consistent with applicable law. Articulate is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation related to the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].
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Top Skills
AWS
Datadog
Docker
Kubernetes
Node.js
Postgres
React
Snowflake
SQL
Typescript
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