Software Engineering Mentor

Monograph; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 68,880 - 137,760; Part time

Job summary

A leading adaptive mentorship platform is looking for experienced Software Engineering Mentors to conduct flexible small group sessions for aspiring engineers. This flexible position allows mentors to set their own schedules, helping students significantly increase their career trajectories and compensation. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in tech and are comfortable giving feedback in technical interviews. The role is independent, with compensation based on completed sessions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience at top tech companies.
• Staff+ level engineer preferred.
• Experience in conducting technical interviews.

Responsibilities

• Conduct small group sessions for software engineering topics.
• Provide actionable feedback to mentees.
• Work approximately 5 hours a week.

Skills

Conducting interactive sessions

Technical feedback

System Design knowledge

Data Structures & Algorithms

Technical Behavioral topics

Job description

Formation Software Engineering Mentor Remote · Contractor

Flexible opportunity to mentor software engineers.

About Formation

We are on a mission to build a more equitable world by helping people from all backgrounds gain the skills they need to land roles they love. We are re‑inventing education by throwing out the one‑size‑fits‑all curriculum and replacing it with AI that is able to pinpoint personal areas of weakness and dynamically schedule mentorship based on each learner’s performance, calendar availability and unique learning goals. Our AI platform powers our flagship Engineering Fellowship, helping engineers from non‑traditional and historically underrepresented backgrounds get hired at the world’s top tech companies. In 2026 so far, we helped our engineers increase their compensation by an average of over $87K. We have over 400 active engineers on the platform and are growing fast.

Description

We are seeking engineering mentors for our exceptional Fellows, and we’d love to hear from you! Formation is an adaptive mentorship Platform to help experienced engineers from all walks of life land super impactful roles and level up their career trajectory.

This is not a full‑time position.

Mentorship is super flexible — you can ramp up or down and conduct sessions on your own schedule — and our mentors are a huge part of our Fellows’ success. The average placed Fellow increased their total compensation by over $100K a year and in 2024 — around 75% have placed at top tier tech companies.

QUALIFICATIONS:

We are currently looking for a mentors who:

• Are excited to conduct small group (3–6 person) interactive sessions for System Design, Data Structures & Algorithms, and Technical Behavioral topics.
• Are a staff+ level engineer and/or have 8+ years of work experience at top tech companies.
• Regularly conduct technical interviews and comfortable giving actionable feedback to improve performance.
• Are available about 5 hours a week, though we can work with any availability.

PAYMENT AND LOGISTICS:

1. If we determine we are a good fit, we will onboard you to our Platform! You’ll input your availability (# of hours a week and time windows), sync your calendar, and be provided with onboarding and shadowing opportunities to get you set up for success.
2. Mentors get automatically scheduled for sessions every Friday. We provide session templates and all the information you need to help you facilitate each session.
3. Mentors are paid per completed session, and sessions are generally 1 hour.
4. Mentors are conducting sessions as independent mentors bound by the terms of service of the Formation Platform and are not employees of Formation.

YOUR IMPACT

We are so proud to say our bar is high and our program works! If you’d like to get a snapshot of our Fellow outcomes in H1 of this year, check out this link!

We also feature several Fellow stories on our website, like Sofie, who went from a video game startup to a senior engineering role at Meta.