Full-Stack Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Full Stack Engineer and help us create personalized online coding courses for K-12 students! You will play a crucial role in developing web applications and AI-powered tutoring services using cutting-edge technologies. This remote position offers the opportunity to work with a talented team, build innovative learning tools, and leverage your expertise in full-stack development. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to design and implement features using LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude. This is a full-time, long-term position with a competitive salary and additional perks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• A minimum of 3-4 years of experience in full-stack web development, with a strong focus on Node.js, React, and Typescript
• Strong understanding of fundamental system design principles enabling robust, scalable, distributed applications
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• A passion for functional programming and writing clean, well-organized, and maintainable code
• Technical leadership experience, especially in a startup or similarly fast-paced environment
• Comfortable taking large, vaguely defined problems and systematically asking the necessary questions and doing research/experimentation in order to identify and de-risk areas of uncertainty, break the work down into smaller, more manageable chunks, and ultimately manage the timely delivery of large projects
• Experience implementing highly-scalable systems and/or improving scalability of systems struggling to scale with user/load growth

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with product managers and fellow engineers to turn ideas for new AI-powered features into minimum-viable products
• Iteratively design and implement full-stack systems and features that build on top of Large Language Model (LLM) APIs such as ChatGPT and Claude
• Write efficient and maintainable backend services using Node.js and Typescript
• Design and implement highly responsive user interface components using modern React best practices
• Create well-organized written documentation outlining technical plans for how to approach new projects/features and regularly seek and incorporate feedback from other team members
• Communicate proactively with cross-functional teams to ensure that designs are feasible and to identify and troubleshoot issues as they arise
• Actively participate in code review processes to share knowledge among the engineering team and ensure high-quality code contributions
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in web and AI development.  Proactively suggest improvements for processes, best practices, and technologies
• Use your expertise in the full software development lifecycle to solve complex problems with innovative solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with LLM APIs such as ChatGPT or Claude, Including prompt engineering
• Experience with AWS cloud services
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Clerk for user authentication
• Experience with Stripe APIs for payments
• Expert-level skills in React.js
• Expert-level skills in MongoDB schema and index design and query optimization
• Expert-level skills in Typescript / Node.js

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• This is a full-time, long-term position
• Work from home
• Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm (+/- 2 hours accepted) - PST