YC-Backed EdTech Startup: Full Stack Engineer

AI overview

Help scale a platform supporting families and educators nationwide, while building user-friendly web and mobile experiences and contributing to the core infrastructure.
About 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

  • Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

    • Equity Compensation: meaningful early equity
    • Remote-Friendly: Remote-first work environment (US-based)
    Salary
    $130,000 – $190,000 per year
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