Full Stack Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Full Stack Software Engineer

• Focus: End-to-end features across React front end, backend services/APIs, database, and AI features using LLMs

Description

Build and improve software that helps students and families with college admissions. You will ship tested full-stack features from React through backend APIs/services and the underlying database, and enhance the product with AI-powered capabilities using LLMs and AI APIs. You will own real problems from your first month, debugging production issues across the stack and iterating based on feedback.

Responsibilities

• Solve the real problem behind requests from counselors, operations, or product

• Ship tested, end-to-end features: React, backend services, APIs, and the database underneath

• Build and improve AI-powered features using LLMs and AI APIs; validate whether they help users

• Turn ambiguous requests into a scoped plan and a working first version quickly; iterate on feedback

• Debug production issues across the stack, with increasing independence over time

Requirements

• Experience shipping software used by others (job, internship, freelance, open source, or substantial personal project)

• Strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, networking, web fundamentals)

• Ability to sketch system design for a feature, explain tradeoffs, and provide deeper technical detail

• Solid React and TypeScript; strong HTML, CSS, and JavaScript fundamentals

• Working knowledge of backend APIs, databases, and third-party integrations

• Hands-on experience integrating AI APIs or LLMs into an application (beyond using AI coding assistants)

• Comfort with Git, code review, and writing tests

• Methodical approach to debugging (find root cause)

• Clear communication: explain technical decisions to non-engineers and drive issues to completion

Benefits

• Senior engineers review your work and coach decisions

• Opportunity to own real problems from the first month and build real product capabilities

• Emphasis on what you have built and how you think over years of experience

• Fully remote team