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Goblins Founding Engineer Application

The Problem We Solve

For millennia, we’ve struggled with the trade-off between scale and quality — we now have the tools to resolve this tension, serving mind-blowing pedagogy, customized to each learner’s ability, mindset, and needs, at scale.

Our flagship product, Goblins, is like having 30 teachers in a single classroom. It lets students draw math on any device, and it figures out the "why" behind their confusion, giving them instant feedback, building their conceptual foundation, and inspiring them to love math.

See for yourself:

Our Traction

Goblins serves 20,000 students across the US, and we’ve raised $1.5M from the Gates Foundation and top edtech angels.

We are in the unique position of having a product that is both highly differentiated and demanded. We’ve nailed retention and tight PMF, and it’s time to grow.

About This Role

This is a full-stack engineer's role with a heavy focus on growth: Your objective is to ensure that every one of the 350K math teachers in the United States is using Goblins as soon as possible (it’s already the best tool for them — they just don’t know it yet). Pulling this off entails a hacker’s mind (how can you subvert the system towards benevolent ends), a strong grasp on human psychology, an extreme sense of urgency, and full-stack technical chops.

This is a role for a self-starter: Your day-to-day work will be highly self-directed. You’ll design the experiments, build them, measure them, and double down or regroup, until you’ve hit the goal.

You'll also have opportunities to support the product team in an ops capacity, using the same bootstrapping mentality to expand curriculum, engineer our way past local/state bureaucracy, and beyond.

Some Cool Stuff You’ll Do

- Build an AI-powered “iron man suit” for the sales team to help them punch far above their weight
- Build highly shareable growth products with low time-to-magic that on-ramp users to the main product
- Build automations that turn wins (good student conversations, client success, etc.) into rich-media to share on social media
- Generate and automate the distribution of free assets across the web that lead teachers back to Goblins
- Build growth loops into the product itself that bring K > 1.
- … and much more.


What You Need

- Ease building full-stack app from scratch. Likely 1-2 YOE as SWE, or super strong growth mindset. If you're comfortable as a forward-deployed engineer or growth engineer, you'll fit right in.
- Comfort with rapid experimentation, data analysis, and automation and respective toolkits
- Willingness to prioritize the objective over the stack — you should be comfortable with pretending like you’re not an engineer sometimes and doing unscalable ops stuff
- Hacker’s mind, a strong grasp on human psychology, an extreme sense of urgency


Would Be Nice

- Front-end design experience
- Experience growing something (a blog, a business, etc.) from scratch

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