Technical Director, gt.school (Remote) - $320,000/year USD
Company: Crossover for Work
Location: Chicago
Posted on: May 16, 2022
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Job Description:
Crossover is the world's 1 source of full-time remote jobs. Our
clients offer top-tier pay for top-tier talent. We're recruiting
this role for our client, gt.school. Have you got what it takes?
Are you a technical expert who has built amazing architecture for
games, but now craves a role where you could use your skills for a
more meaningful cause? Do you wonder why educational organizations
still follow teaching methods from ancient history and miss out on
the most advanced technologies? If you want to be one of the
pioneers to change that, we believe we have something for you. GT
School is building an online community focusing on the most
underserved customer base in US education - Gifted & Talented kids.
GT School applies a winning combination of technology, coaching,
and community to deliver motivation by the boatload. Education is
one of the last industries still largely untouched by technology,
and our goal is to pioneer the creation of the education metaverse
and keep students engaged and invested. This role is essential to
the success of our revolution. You will build the education
metaverse by architecting a portfolio of products. Your focus will
be on making strategic technical decisions instead of worrying
about business, legal, or cost-related details. If you are ready to
shape the future of education by tackling some of the most
important problems that aren't even spotted yet, then this is the
role for you. What You Will Be Doing Creating new product specs:
Conducting research on the requirements, analyzing existing data
structures and product architecture, making important technical
decisions that specify how to boost our products Coaching:
Reviewing content regarding data structures, APIs, and module
breakdowns, and providing the authors with written, technical, and
actionable feedback to improve the quality of their work What You
Won---t Be Doing You will not be making any decisions based
primarily on saving money. This role makes strategic technical
design decisions. You will not be participating in daily scrum
meetings, making low-level decisions, or debugging. This role
provides clear leadership for our engineering organization to
execute on. Technical Director Key Responsibilities Building
simple, yet elegant architecture for our adaptive and mastery-based
education applications through important technical decisions that
will drive our product roadmaps for the next 3-5 years Basic
Requirements Experience as a senior decision-maker regarding
technical design decisions at a dev organization with 50 people 7
years experience making important architecture/software design
decisions in the gaming industry 2 years of experience making
design decisions involving cloud technologies (primarily AWS) 2
years of experience shipping production-quality code About
Gt.school gt.school is a stealth educational startup in Austin,
Texas, the center of educational innovation in the US. We are
building an online community focusing on the most underserved
customer base in US education - gifted and talented (GT) kids. We
are a remote first company who hires globally via Crossover. There
is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is
limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and
want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you Working with
Crossover This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term
position. The position is immediately available and requires
entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover.
The compensation level for this role is $160 USD/hour, which
equates to $320,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50
weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult
www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
What to expect next: You will receive an email with a link to start
your self-paced, online job application. Our hiring platform will
guide you through a series of online ---screening--- assessments to
check for basic job fit, job-related skills, and finally a few
real-world job-specific assignments. Important If you do not
receive an email from us: First, emails may take up to 15 minutes
to send, refresh and check again. Second, check your spam and junk
folders for an email from Crossover.com, mark as ---Not Spam---
since you will receive other emails as well. Third, we will send to
whatever email account you indicated on the Apply form - by
default, that is the email address you use as your LinkedIn
username and it might be different than the one you have already
checked. If all else fails, just reset your password by visiting
https://www.crossover.com/auth/reset-password if you already
applied using LinkedIn EasyApply. Crossover Job Code:
LJ-4645-US-Dallas/F-TechnicalDirec.001
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