Full-Stack Engineer

Description

• Build student-facing features end to end across the React front-end and Node.js/TypeScript back-end, from initial scoping through production and iteration. • Own work through design review, testing, release quality, and post-deployment outcomes. • Shape the product by partnering with Product and Design to evaluate ideas, identify trade-offs, and propose better approaches. • Improve testing, QA, and release practices while maintaining speed and quality. • Contribute to engineering practices and tooling. • Collaborate with a small, senior team through open code reviews and technical decisions. • Contribute across infrastructure, data questions, and other areas where impact is possible.

Requirements

• Strong production experience with React, Node.js, and TypeScript, with a track record of shipping and maintaining real user-facing software. • Genuine full-stack range: comfortable moving between UI work, API design, and data modeling in the same week. • Demonstrated ability to scope your own work, take an ambiguous problem, break it down, communicate the plan, and execute it. • Strong judgment about quality and trade-offs, knowing when something needs to be done properly and when shipping today is the right call. • Clear communicator who works well with non-engineers and can explain technical decisions to Product, Design, and Marketing. • Fluency with modern AI-assisted development workflows as part of day-to-day engineering practice. • Care about students, craft, and the team. • US-based and able to work as a full-time employee. • Not required, but a strong plus: basic infrastructure and DevOps experience, including CI/CD, deployments, and observability. • Not required, but a strong plus: experience with document and relational databases, especially MongoDB and Postgres. • Not required, but a strong plus: experience at a larger or AI-native engineering organization. • Not required, but a strong plus: experience with experimentation and A/B testing, payments, or analytics instrumentation. • Not required, but a strong plus: comfort with ambiguity and wearing multiple hats in a fast-paced startup.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ($160k - $190k based on experience) + equity • Remote-first (with optional quarterly SF meetups) • Full health benefits (medical, dental, vision) • 401(k) with company match • Flexible PTO + company holidays • Professional development budget • Home office stipend • Wellness resources • Monthly hackathons

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