Senior Software Engineer; AI-Native; Contractor

Senior Software Engineer (AI-Native) (Full-time Contractor)

Remote - Colombia

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll help shape how students, educators, and institutions interact with our technology. Whether it’s building a seamless class discovery flow, improving accessibility and performance, or integrating AI into real-time classroom experiences, your work will directly impact how people learn every day. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to create fast, elegant, and responsive interfaces that bring our innovations to life.

About Nerdy:

At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) - the company behind Varsity Tutors - we’re redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI™ platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative‑AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale. We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you’d bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point.

In an era where great employees can deliver 10‑times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.

Fortune favors the bold. Join us.

AI‑Native at every level From the CEO to day‑one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you’re not wielding AI, you’re not done.

Entrepreneurial velocity Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.

Free‑market rigor Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.

Full‑stack ownership You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.

Reward for contribution Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both what you achieve and how you achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded.

Relentless exploration Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.

Is Apolitical You stay focused on mission‑aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes.

If you’re a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition, personal responsibility, and the chance to redefine how the world learns—as well as continually stretching the limits of what generative AI can do—come do the most ambitious and rewarding work of your career here. Learn more  Nerdy’s shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy:

• Experience with a core Object‑Oriented Programming language like Java/C++/C#
• Familiarity with backend services & technologies is a plus.
• Experience with deployment systems (e.g. Git Hub Actions, AWS Code Deploy).
• Familiarity with AWS Services (e.g. RDS, Lambda, EC2, et cetera).
• Familiarity with the Linux operating system and command‑line tools.
• Understanding of OO design, algorithms, and data structures.
• Aptitude to quickly learn new languages and technologies as necessary.
• Experience developing websites that are visited by thousands of visitors daily.
• Experience with enhancing SEO performance.
• Experienced with AI‑native tools that enhance productivity and speed (e.g., Cursor, Make, Supabase, Netlify, Claude Code, n8n, Firecrawl, ChatGPT, Grok, Bolt, Vercel, etc).
• Understand and appreciate that Nerdy is an apolitical company and that we can have the largest impact if we are united in our focus on helping people learn and not divided or distracted by advancing unrelated causes.
• Computer Science or related degree preferred.

• Write performant, maintainable code that is easy to read and well‑documented.
• Write automated tests to thoroughly validate the correctness of your code.
• Deploy large‑scale web applications.
• Have a focus on quality, and operate iteratively to get from good to better.
• Be a part of your team’s on‑call rotation; we all own our code end‑to‑end from development to deployment to operations.
• Come ready to learn from some of the best and brightest in the industry.
• Work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic and fast‑moving team.
• Be effective in a…