Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The company is a mission-driven nonprofit technology organization building a peer-to-peer learning platform for students, learners, and tutors. The Senior Software Engineer will own full-stack products end to end, develop reliable and scalable systems, collaborate directly with users and cross-functional stakeholders, and contribute to product direction and engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Own full-stack features and products from problem definition through production launch
• Build customer-facing experiences using TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, and PostgreSQL
• Design and implement clean, maintainable frontend and backend systems
• Build APIs, application logic, data models, and user-facing interfaces
• Develop MVPs and experiments quickly while maintaining strong engineering quality
• Improve existing application architecture and engineering patterns
• Build reliable products used by thousands of learners and tutors
• Take ownership of features beyond simply implementing individual tickets
• Work directly with users, stakeholders, designers, and program leads to understand problems
• Define product problems before jumping into technical implementation
• Interview users and gather feedback to understand needs and pain points
• Propose product solutions based on user needs and technical feasibility
• Translate ambiguous requirements into clear product and engineering plans
• Scope MVPs and determine practical approaches to validating new ideas
• Balance technical tradeoffs with user experience and organizational goals
• Iterate quickly based on product feedback and real-world usage
• Write clean, readable, well-tested production code across the stack
• Design reliable backend services and relational data models
• Build and maintain APIs and application infrastructure
• Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability across the platform
• Participate in code reviews and pair programming
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems
• Participate in on-call rotations and help maintain platform reliability and safety
• Establish engineering patterns that make future development faster and more consistent
• Contribute to cloud infrastructure and production systems where needed
• Work in small cross-functional pods alongside engineers, designers, and program stakeholders
• Lead technical execution for new products, programs, and experiments
• Collaborate closely with non-technical stakeholders to define requirements and outcomes
• Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
• Communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly
• Help shape engineering practices and development standards
• Contribute to technical strategy and product direction
• Take ownership of complex initiatives while operating independently

Skills

• US Citizens and Green Card holders only
• 3–13 years of full-stack software engineering experience
• 3+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience
• Experience shipping full-stack B2C products end-to-end
• Experience building products used by thousands of users
• Experience working in small, high-growth technology organizations
• Experience owning projects from ambiguous problem definition through launch
• Strong experience working directly with product, design, and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience independently driving technical projects
• Experience balancing product requirements with technical feasibility
• Experience working across both frontend and backend systems
• Strong track record of shipping production software
• Strong TypeScript experience
• Strong React experience
• Strong Next.js experience or equivalent modern frontend framework
• Strong Node.js experience
• Strong PostgreSQL or relational database experience
• Experience designing and building production APIs
• Strong full-stack software engineering fundamentals
• Experience with typed programming languages
• Strong understanding of relational data modeling
• Experience building customer-facing web applications
• Strong testing and debugging practices
• Experience with production systems and application reliability
• Strong product-oriented engineering mindset
• Experience defining user problems rather than simply receiving technical tickets
• Comfortable speaking directly with users and stakeholders
• Experience conducting user interviews or gathering qualitative product feedback
• Able to propose product solutions based on user needs
• Comfortable scoping MVPs and experiments
• Able to balance technical feasibility with product impact
• Experience working in cross-functional product pods
• Strong understanding of customer-facing software development
• High ownership and accountability
• Strong independence and self-direction
• Strong product judgment
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving and systems-thinking skills
• Able to make pragmatic engineering decisions
• Comfortable working in small teams with broad responsibilities
• Strong collaboration with designers and product stakeholders
• Willingness to speak directly with users
• Strong mentoring and technical leadership skills
• Ideally 7–8 years of experience for senior-level candidates
• AWS or GCP experience
• Experience with consumer products, marketplaces, education technology, social platforms, or real-time products
• Genuine interest in social impact and/or education-focused missions

Benefits

• Fully remote within the United States.
• Work aligned with US timezone hours.
• Opportunity to build products serving a large global community of learners.
• Significant ownership over full-stack product development.
• Opportunity to work directly with users and stakeholders.
• Opportunity to shape product direction and engineering practices.
• Meaningful mission-driven work focused on education and human connection.

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