Software Engineer, Student Learning Team

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Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience developing and maintaining consumer-grade web applications, preferably using JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Ruby on Rails, and SQL.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and supporting high-scale, production applications—experience with AWS services like S3 and CloudWatch is a plus.
• A track record of technical leadership, whether through leading architectural changes, setting technical direction, or mentoring teammates.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product managers, designers, and curriculum writers to develop end-to-end features that are accessible, usable, and engaging in real classrooms.
• Write and maintain production-ready code in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Ruby on Rails, and SQL, while working with AWS services like S3 and CloudWatch for asset storage, logging, and infrastructure.
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on AI-focused products for students, including evaluating, selecting, and incorporating generative AI models and ensuring safety, bias mitigation and effectiveness.
• Support site and user needs, including monitoring production issues, deploying updates, triaging user-submitted issues, and responding to teacher and student inquiries.
• Take ownership of complex projects, driving technical decisions and collaborating across teams to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Foster a collaborative and encouraging team culture by mentoring teammates, sharing knowledge, and helping each other succeed.