Senior Software Engineer $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- Remote · Contractor · $50/hr
This position is designed for exceptional engineers who excel when given ownership, strategic responsibility, and meaningful technical problems to solve. You will develop critical product features while steering technical architecture and safeguarding long-term reliability and scalability. The technical choices you make will have direct consequences for the product and its user base, granting you both the freedom to innovate and the accountability to execute.
Our products are reshaping how students engage with learning:
- TeachTap: Uses AI to animate historical figures within a TikTok-style educational interface.
- TeachTales: Delivers personalized, immersive storytelling designed to improve student comprehension.
- TimeBack: Functions as an intelligent learning assistant that connects with existing applications to provide proactive student coaching.
- Athena: Generates AI-powered videos and assessments to produce quantifiable improvements in academic performance.
Your role will center on guiding the technical maturation of our platforms, guaranteeing they remain scalable, maintainable, and resilient over time. Working in close partnership with product stakeholders, you will convert broad objectives into sound technical architectures and navigate intricate challenges while upholding rigorous quality benchmarks. The decisions you make will define the product trajectory and affect how thousands of learners experience education.
We emphasize deliberate planning and design-first development. Our AI-driven workflows handle repetitive work, allowing you to concentrate on strategic decisions and complex problem-solving. You will enjoy substantial autonomy and the opportunity to shape product roadmaps while championing long-term stability and growth.
If you are prepared to spearhead the technical advancement of our SaaS platforms and harness generative AI to redefine what's possible, we want to connect with you.
What you will be doing
- Feature Development: Architecting and delivering new capabilities with an emphasis on scalability, maintainability, and enduring product value.
- Requirement Engineering: Partnering with product leadership to clarify specifications and guiding technical conversations to ensure alignment between features and strategic goals.
- Operations and Maintenance: Overseeing product health, optimizing performance, and preemptively detecting and addressing potential issues.
- Technical Design: Executing high-stakes technical decisions that directly influence user satisfaction and platform scalability.
What you will NOT be doing
- Jumping between ephemeral initiatives or pursuing technology fads without strategic value.
- Contributing to internal IT infrastructure or contract projects lacking meaningful user engagement.
- Spending excessive time in unproductive meetings or managing monotonous infrastructure overhead.
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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