Jake Hiller is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently leading the Web Platform team at Codecademy from Philadelphia. He drives large-scale frontend architecture work, including a company-wide migration from Rails to a modern React-based stack and standardizing JavaScript tooling to TypeScript. Jake blends hands-on engineering with people leadership—he previously served as Interim Head of Engineering and ran hiring efforts that more than doubled the team. His background in visual communications and early career as a designer informs a strong product-minded approach to frontend systems and developer experience. Comfortable shifting between management and IC roles, he focuses on scalable, maintainable platform work that accelerates multiple product teams. Outside of day-to-day engineering, he’s known for translating design sensibilities into resilient web architectures that improve both learner and Pro experiences.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Visual Communications, Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Graphic Design at University of Delaware
Contributions:43 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 5 months
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Jake Hiller - Staff Software Engineer at Codecademy