Senior Engineer

About the role

UPchieve is looking for an experienced engineer to join our team. In this role, you’ll work with our product & engineering team (which includes other engineers, a product lead, and a product designer) and our business teams to build the world’s best tutoring platform for low-income students. Given our early stage, you’ll have the opportunity to influence all aspects of our organization, from technical and product strategy to team culture. You’ll play a key role in helping us accomplish our 2030 goal of scaling free tutoring to all 8 million low-income high school students in the U.S.

This might be the right job for you if…

• You’re scrappy and entrepreneurial. If you don’t know how to do something, you’ll find someone to ask or read The Internet™ until you can
• You’re excited by the challenge of building a platform on par with other successful consumer-facing educational platforms like Khan Academy and Duolingo
• You are a team player who sees genuine value in helping other engineers improve their skills
• You’re opinionated AND open-minded. You relish having conversations about architecture and technical trade-offs with other engineers
• You have high quality standards and take pride in a clean and well organized code base
• You think critically about everything you do and aren’t afraid to ask questions

What you’ll do

• Design and build new features
• Proactively review other team members’ code, leaving thoughtful and constructive feedback that helps them improve
• Define standards to ensure high levels of performance, scalability, and reliability of our platform
• Improve our internal workflow to help everyone ship code faster
• Think critically about our product and business, ask questions, and suggest changes

We’re looking for someone who...

• Has 5+ years of full-stack app development and demonstrable proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript
• Has been a member of multiple different engineering teams and seen various development processes in play
• (Bonus) Has prior experience with our tech stack: Node.js, React Native, Vue.js, WebSockets, TypeScript, PostgreSQL
• (Bonus) Has prior experience with devops, people management, and/or QA
• (Bonus) Is interested in open source

IMPORTANT: To apply, please submit your application here: https://upchieve.welcomekit.co (Applications that are submitted on Work at a Startup will still be reviewed but much less frequently.)

Our interview process includes a 20-min introductory call with our founder, 3-4 hours of interviews with members of UPchieve's product & engineering org (including a coding interview, an A&D interview, a team fit interview, and a leadership interview), an optional team meet-and-greet, and reference checks.