Senior Software Engineer $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks
Description
Are you an accomplished engineer who excels at ownership, strategic thinking, and solving intricate technical problems? This role positions you to develop the most critical features of a product while influencing its technical trajectory and securing its long-term sustainability and expansion. The technical choices you make will have direct consequences for the product and its users, providing you with both the freedom to innovate and the accountability to execute.
You'll contribute to products that are reshaping education:
- TeachTap: Leverages AI to bring historical figures to life in a TikTok-like learning experience.
- TeachTales: Engages students with personalized, magical storytelling that boosts comprehension.
- TimeBack: Acts as a learning copilot that integrates with existing apps, proactively coaching students.
- Athena: Uses AI-generated videos and tests to deliver measurable academic outcomes.
You will lead the technical advancement of our products, ensuring they remain scalable, maintainable, and resilient over time. Working in close partnership with product teams, you will convert broad requirements into concrete technical designs and address complex obstacles while upholding rigorous quality standards. Your decisions will determine the product's trajectory and affect how thousands of students learn and develop.
We emphasize deliberate planning and early-stage design. Our AI-first methodology automates routine tasks, allowing you to concentrate on impactful decisions and sophisticated problem-solving. You will enjoy significant autonomy and the capacity to shape product direction while prioritizing enduring stability and scalability.
If you're prepared to drive the technical transformation of our SaaS products and harness generative AI to expand possibilities, we'd love to hear from you.
What you will be doing
- Feature Development: Architecting and building new features with an emphasis on scalability, maintainability, and sustained product value.
- Requirement Engineering: Partnering with the product team to clarify requirements and guiding technical conversations to ensure features align with product objectives.
- Operations and Maintenance: Overseeing and sustaining product reliability, optimizing performance, and proactively detecting and addressing issues.
- Technical Design: Executing high-stakes technical decisions that directly influence user experiences and product scalability.
What you will NOT be doing
- Jumping between short-term projects or pursuing the latest hype-driven technology trend.
- Working on internal IT systems or outsourced projects without real-world user impact.
- Getting stuck in endless meetings or dealing with tedious infrastructure issues.
Candidate requirements
- At least 1 year of full-stack development experience, working on front and backend features.
- At least 2 years as the primary technical contributor for a SaaS product, driving strategic technical decisions.
- At least 4 years of experience working on actual SaaS products, not outsourcing or internal IT projects.
- Experience in using generative AI in your day-to-day development work.
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