Staff Product Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona, +27 more states.

📋 Description

• Take charge of designing essential systems, including wallets and ledgers, enrollment lifecycles, reimbursement evaluations, and financial/student record processes.

• Identify and address overarching issues that lack distinct ownership.

• Establish engineering standards and lead design as well as code review sessions.

• Oversee data modeling and system architecture; guide the team towards developing robust data structures.

• Define Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), create monitoring systems, lead incident response efforts, conduct blameless postmortems, and implement necessary fixes.

• Develop autonomous systems for checks, reviews, reports, rollouts, data corrections, and documentation.

• Safeguard student Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and company funds in collaboration with Security and Legal teams, ensuring compliance with FERPA, state audits, and traceability requirements.

• Mentor engineers and enhance their decision-making skills.

• Act as a representative of the Engineering team to Product and leadership, translating strategies into actionable roadmaps while challenging inaccurate plans.

• Work across the entire stack using a Next.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL monolithic architecture.

• Collaborate closely with the CTO to shape the long-term engineering strategy.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of software development experience, particularly in small or rapidly growing companies where you have taken ownership of outcomes.

• Extensive knowledge of TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node, and PostgreSQL.

• Strong skills in PostgreSQL, including schema design, transaction management, locking mechanisms, and query performance optimization.

• Proven experience in designing and delivering complex production systems that span across team boundaries, including payments, ledgers, workflows, and integrations.

• Capability for first-principles reasoning and the ability to articulate system behavior effectively.

• Experience in setting technical direction and mentoring fellow engineers.

• Background in handling sensitive data and real financial transactions.

• Proficient technical writing and communication skills for engaging with non-technical audiences.

• Interest in utilizing AI while maintaining ownership and accountability.

• Must reside in one of the specified eligible U.S. states.

• Authorized to work in the United States.

• Preferred: Experience with event-driven, asynchronous, workflow-centric systems using Kafka, Temporal, or Inngest.

• Preferred: Experience with AI in automating developer workflows.

• Preferred: Background in K-12 education or industries focused on regulation and compliance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Flexibility of remote work.

• Comprehensive preview deployment for every pull request, complete with mocked services and isolated, production-like data.

• Commitment to equal opportunity employment.

• Participation in E-Verify.