Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
About Empowerly
Empowerly is a fast-growing ed-tech company on a mission to empower students to become the most successful version of themselves. Our platform combines expert college counseling with proprietary tools like the Empowerly Score offering families a 360 view of their childs college readiness; across academics essays and extracurriculars.
Weve raised $30 million from top-tier investors including Goodwater Capital Conductive Ventures FJ Labs Scrum Ventures Translink Capital Azure Capital Partners and Spero Ventures.
As a founder-led company weve grown through SEO-driven performance marketing and are now scaling a diversified GTM motion across Sales Events B2C Partnerships and Business Development. Were targeting 150200% revenue growth in the coming phase and this role will be critical in making that leap.
We operate as a remote-first company with teammates across the U.S. and engineers in Brazil united by our passion to make high-quality college counseling accessible to every student regardless of background or location.
About the Team
We move with a founders mindset: urgency empathy and integrity. The engineering team is distributed across the U.S. and Brazil partnering closely with product design and data teams. Our tech stack was built two to three years ago; were now evolving it to incorporate AI/ML at scale. We thrive in lean nimble VC-backed startup environments (Series A to C) where decisions are made fast aligned quickly and tied directly to revenue growth.
The Role
We are seeking a motivated and experienced Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to design build and evolve Empowerlys next-generation ed-tech platform. Youll work across the stack with strong emphasis in engineering best practices delivered with speed and urgency and play a central role in embedding AI and ML capabilities into our applications.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments understands the dynamics of scaling a founder-led startup and knows how to use technology and data to unlock growth levers.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the complete software development lifecycle including concept design build testing release and maintenance of our software applications.
- Develop high-quality software design and architecture with an emphasis on performance scalability and security.
- Specialize in front-end development using ReactJS and related frameworks ensuring a seamless user experience across various platforms.
- Incorporate AI algorithms and machine learning models into web-based applications to provide intelligent data-driven features.
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of designers developers and product managers to bring innovative solutions and products to life.
- Review debug and validate code and perform testing for validation and verification.
- Document development phases monitor systems and ensure the alignment of application design with business goals.
- Collaborate with engineers to embed algorithms and models into production applications (e.g. recommendation engines essay analysis readiness scoring) and bring the AI/ML capabilities to the team
- Partner with product data and design teams to ship features that impact revenue retention and student success.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science (or closely related field).
- Minimum 5 years experience as a Full Stack Engineer or equivalent.
- Expertise in ReactJS TypeScript and modern front-end frameworks.
- Experience designing and building scalable secure back-end systems ( Python or Rails).
- Solid grounding in AI/ML concepts with hands-on experience integrating models into web applications.
- Strong problem-solving skills detail orientation and the ability to balance speed with quality.
Preferred Requirements
- Masters degree in AI Machine Learning or related field.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS GCP or Azure) and DevOps practices.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Experience in VC Backed Series B to D VC-backed founder-led startups.
Ideal Hire Profile
- You know how to challenge assumptions constructively and align fast once a decision is made.
- You live in AI and understand how to make it useful in production systems.
- You care deeply about UI/UX Product and Data not just code.
- You embody our values by leading with humility and building bridges across disciplines and culture
- You operate with urgency empathy and integrity.
- You believe in Empowerlys mission to expand access to college counseling.
- You thrive in lean nimble fast-paced environments.
- Your work is driven by the goal of shaping product and engineering outcomes that influence revenue growth and student outcomes
$100000 - $150000 a year
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
- Equity
- Full benefits (health vision dental)
- Remote-first flexibility
- High visibility with C-level leadership
- A mission-driven values-based team helping families nationwide
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This is a rare opportunity to shape the growth trajectory of a mission-driven venture-backed company. As our Full Stack Software Engineer you will be part of an experienced engineering team..
If youre energized by the idea of turning insights into action partnering across teams and helping us expand access to college counseling for families everywhere wed love to hear from you.
Please Note
Empowerly does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters or agencies.
Any resume submitted to any employee or hiring manager without a signed agreement in place will be considered the property of Empowerly and we will not be obligated to pay any fees related to such submissions.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Empowerly helps students navigate their admissions journey to top colleges with a 98% success rate. Talk to an enrollment specialist today and get started.
