User Agency, Senior Product Engineer

School scheduling is a hard problem, one that technology was meant to solve. Yet for decades, the master schedule has been built by hand, consuming educators’ valuable time while delivering a sub-optimal result for students. We started Timely to build the tool we wish we had when we were in schools. And today, we are changing how schools create high quality schedules for teachers and students. Timely combines groundbreaking AI technology with support from a team of expert school schedulers: saving schedulers’ time, and surfacing opportunities for leaders to unlock staff potential. Timely delivers optimized master schedules that are more efficient, accommodate diverse educator needs, and enable student access to courses and pathways that impact their lives.

Our district and school partners agree: scheduling is a key opportunity for educational innovation, and that Timely is the indispensable partner in addressing the challenge. We’re experiencing exciting growth as a company, while doubling down on our mission and people-centered approach to leveraging powerful technology. We serve districts and charter school organizations across 15+ states, growing (and renewing) at rates that lead the education technology industry. This growth has been driven by our strong product-market fit, deep understanding of education, and commitment to customer success.

This role is a Senior Software Engineer position with a strong focus on frontend development (70% frontend, 30% backend). You will lead the design and development of user-facing features for Timely’s core web application, leveraging React for the frontend and Python for the backend. This is a high-impact position where you will work closely with product, engineering, and School Success teams to build features that directly impact educators and school administrators. Representative examples of projects include creating flexible data visualization capabilities for school decision-makers, refining the performance and usability of drag-and-drop interfaces for scheduling, and enabling prerequisite or alternate courses within the product.  Throughout your work, you will have the opportunity to own the technical design, contribute to execution, guide & mentor junior engineers and support the delivery and rollout of projects to customers.

• Own the development of key Timely app enhancements and features across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring high-quality code and design.

• Lead & contribute to the design and development of user-facing features with a strong focus on frontend (React) while maintaining full-stack capabilities (Python).

• Collaborate with internal teams (product, engineering, school success) and external stakeholders (especially customers) to identify needs, evaluate solutions, define well-scoped stories, and prioritize impactful work.

• Contribute to improving development processes, technical best practices, and cross-team communication.

• Provide technical leadership in the frontend and other areas of the stack if possible to enhance how well the product and technology perform on these dimensions: usability, reliability, maintainability, performance, scalability and security. 

• Troubleshoot customer issues and provide timely resolutions to ensure a seamless scheduling experience. Some limited on-call responsibilities may apply.

• Mentor and support junior engineers, promoting a culture of collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement.

• 3-5 years of experience in full-stack development, preferably with some overlap with the Timely engineering stack (React, Python, AWS, MongoDB).

• Advanced knowledge of multiple React ecosystem technologies such as React hooks, state management solutions (Redux, Context API), and modern React patterns. Knowledge within a similar framework (eg. Vue) is ok as long as the candidate can ramp up on React. 

• Proficiency with frontend build tools and testing frameworks (Webpack, Babel, Jest, React Testing Library), design systems, and performance measurement and optimization tooling.  

• Proficiency in developing and maintaining scalable web applications, implementing unit and integration tests, and working with CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially in cross-functional environments.

• Commitment to continuous improvement: seeking out and welcoming code reviews, pairing, and collaborative problem-solving.

• Experience and comfort operating in a fast startup environment and all that entails: strong sense of ownership, self-direction, bias towards action, and optimizing for quick delivery of value and learnings for the business. 

• Prior experience in EdTech is a plus but not required. 

• Fully remote role with a preference for candidates based in NY or Boston.

• Work with an exceptional team tackling meaningful challenges in education.

• Be part of a growing, financially healthy company with a proven product.

• Enjoy comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, vision and life insurance, unlimited PTO, and professional development opportunities including free access to online learning programs