Director of Engineering

About Tunelark

Our long-term vision is to empower educators to enrich lives and create opportunities on a global scale. We believe in the power of teacher-driven instruction and the importance of building tools that give teachers superpowers instead of trying to replace them with technology.

Tunelark's mission is to empower educators to make music education more fun, effective, and accessible. We use technology (like our game-based adaptive digital curriculum) to help educators teach more students more effectively, making music education more affordable and high-quality in the process.

Our go-to-market offering is a video chat lesson service with highly vetted instructors who are trained to help students fall in love with music and sharpen their skills with a mix of traditional pedagogical techniques as well as digital tools designed to maximize learning and enjoyment of music in between lessons.

What Will You Be Doing?

• Building a service to empower music educators and inspire the next generation of music learners
• As a member of our leadership team, you would be partnering with our CEO to scale our product, team, and company
• Leading our product & engineering team and guiding our technical direction
• Individually contributing as a senior-level engineer, at least for the first 6-12 months
• Working on your own as well as collaborating via video chat with other team members
• Code reviews
• Coordinating QA work
• Point of contact between engineering and product/design team
• Supporting project scoping and quarterly planning process
• Unblocking engineers, helping with project management, and assigning work to team members

What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years of software engineering / engineering management experience
• Ideally: Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Completely fluent in English
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work with an international, multicultural team
• Engineering leadership experience
• Experience at a Series Seed or Series A stage startup
• Experience at a large tech company or late-stage startup with a reputable engineering team

Skills That Will Help You In The Role

• Professionalism, clear communication, and an ability to give and receive constructive feedback
• An ability to design and manage complex programs and systems without dropping the ball
• Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, React, Postgres, HTML, CSS
• Full-stack development best practices and experience
• Although musical talent is not required, a love of music will help you in this role

Logistics

• 100% remote team
• Salaried W2 position
• Free health insurance

Reasons to Work With Us

• VP track position
• Help provide work to music instructors who were hit hard by the pandemic
• Discount on music lessons for you and your immediate family members
• Significant influence over our product, processes, vision, team dynamics, and more

Compensation

• $100,000 - $150,000 in cash compensation
• $350,000 - $800,000 in equity compensation (based on the seed round valuation, so lots of upside potential if we grow 10-100x)