Top Edtech Software Engineer Jobs

Lead and scale a multi-product engineering organization, define technical and AI-first strategy with Product/GTM, drive engineering excellence and scalable architecture across frontend/backend/infrastructure, accelerate AI-assisted workflows, remove execution blockers, and foster a strong ownership-focused engineering culture.

Build and scale TrueMark’s education platform, focusing on real-time integrity analysis, typing behavior models, AI rubric grading, similarity search, and platform reliability. Work closely with founders and customers, influence the roadmap, and act as an IC-focused technical lead while contributing across backend and frontend systems.

Leads cross-cutting engineering initiatives across eight product squads, including platform modernization, authentication, dependency health, and security. Manages and grows Staff Engineers, prioritizes shared technical work, evaluates tradeoffs, and influences R&D planning. Owns Ellevation’s security practice and relationship with the parent company’s central security organization, coordinating compliance, incident response, scanning, remediation, reporting, and security KPIs. Requires strong software engineering leadership, modern web and cloud expertise, security experience, and executive communication skills.

Own the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of backend services, APIs, databases, integrations, and cloud infrastructure. Build secure REST and GraphQL APIs, optimize relational data systems, modernize service architecture, maintain CI/CD and testing, and implement privacy and security controls. Collaborate with frontend, QA, and product teams, review code, document systems, and mentor developers.

Designs and implements full-stack features from concept through deployment, contributing to architecture, scalability, security, and maintainability. Delivers tested code, participates in code reviews, pair programming, on-call support, production monitoring, troubleshooting, and modernization efforts. Collaborates cross-functionally with business analysts, designers, product partners, and engineering teams while identifying blockers and improving engineering standards.

Leads a front-end, back-end, or full-stack software development team, overseeing people management, coaching, delivery planning, technical quality, release readiness, operational support, and continuous improvement. Partners with Product and cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable software. Establishes Agile, testing, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development practices while managing technical debt, modernization, performance, and responsible AI adoption.

Lead architecture and build full-stack web applications (Rails, Sinatra/Padrino, Django). Own infrastructure, data modeling, API design, and performance; write robust tests; mentor engineers; integrate AI/ML features; and collaborate with stakeholders to shape product and scale the platform.

Principal Software Engineer leading architecture and delivery across content, learner data, and adaptive learning programs. Designs AI- and agent-driven personalization services, learner models, recommendation engines, content platforms, and data pipelines. Builds and evaluates production AI capabilities for accuracy, pedagogy, safety, and bias; establishes shared service contracts and quality gates. Partners with learning science, product, design, data, platform, and security teams while mentoring engineers, improving observability, safeguarding student data, and evolving prototypes into durable platforms.

Build and maintain full-stack SmartCenter modules and platform capabilities using Python backend services and web technologies. Design APIs, business logic, workflows, integrations, and user experiences while addressing technical debt, privacy, security, compliance, data integrity, accessibility, testing, monitoring, and reliability. Collaborate with product, design, QA, support, and stakeholders, participate in production support, and apply responsible AI-assisted development practices.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable backend services, RESTful APIs, integrations, and cloud systems using Node.js, Express, AWS, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Leads architecture and technical design discussions, improves performance, reliability, observability, deployment automation, and CI/CD practices, troubleshoots production issues, and mentors engineers. Collaborates with product, frontend, QA, and engineering teams to deliver secure, maintainable learning solutions.