YC-Backed EdTech Startup: Full Stack Engineer

Job Description

Job DescriptionAbout the Company:

• Company Size: <20 People
• Approx Funding: ~$10M
• Investors: Backed by Y Combinator, Reach Capital, and other top VCs
• Company Stage: Seed
• Industry: EdTech, SaaS, Infrastructure
• Founding Year: 2021
• Tech Stack/Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Stimulus, Hotwire, Tailwind, Swift, Kotlin, Heroku, GitHub Actions

This team is rethinking how families access high-quality education—replacing the one-size-fits-all model with flexible, tech-powered learning. The product supports a fast-growing national network and is central to day-to-day learning, operations, and communication.
What You'll Do

• Help scale a platform used by families, educators, and operators across the country
• Build user-friendly experiences across web and mobile for learning, coordination, and communication
• Collaborate with a small, high-caliber team to shape roadmap and deliver end-to-end features
• Stay hands-on while contributing to architecture and core infrastructure

What you’ll need:

• Experience:
• 5+ years in software development, ideally with startup experience
• Experience working across both frontend and backend systems
• Proven ability to ship user-facing features quickly and cleanly

• Technical Skills:
• Strong product sensibility and attention to user experience
• Ability to work with modern mobile (Kotlin, Swift), backend and frontend frameworks (Rails, Stimulus, Tailwind or similar)
• Comfort working in fast-paced, high-ownership environments
• Bonus: experience building platforms for operationally intensive businesses

• Soft Skills:
• Clear communication and bias for action
• Mission-driven mindset and comfort with ambiguity
• A team-first approach

What you'll get:

• Competitive salary + meaningful early equity
• Remote-first work environment (US-based)
• A chance to help shape a critical layer of infrastructure in modern education

Compensation is salary range + meaningful equity in an early stage venture backed startup commensurate with experience.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.