Founding Engineer – EdTech Startup

Early in your career, sharp on backend, and ready to own whole systems? Start here.

A fast-growing startup in New York builds software for K-12 education. In its first year it went from zero to dozens of school districts, and it works directly with the schools that use it. You'd be the first full-time engineer, designing the architecture together with the CTO and owning complete systems from day one.

• Backend architecture across messy, legacy school data sources that don't come with a clean API
• Integrations built with scraping, browser automation and sync jobs, and making them reliable
• Making things robust: retry logic, queues and the race conditions in between
• Whole systems end to end, plus regular visits to schools

• Your strength is backend and system design, more than front end
• You reason clearly out loud and speak fluent English. The live interview is a spoken system design.
• You welcome very direct feedback
• On-site in New York, daily
• Roughly 1–5 years of experience; early-career engineers are preferred

• Hackathon wins or side projects you shipped
• Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium or other browser automation
• Node, Type Script or Firebase; mobile system APIs (Flutter, iOS, Android) are a plus
• Experience with school systems or ed-tech

• $140k–$220k base, plus 0.5–1.5% equity
• A founding role with real ownership of architecture
• A clear mission in education, with direct contact with the people you build for

• Full-time, on-site in New York, 9-9-6
• Sponsorship is limited: please tell us your exact work authorization up front
• Process: first call with the CEO → spoken system design session, usually without coding → two-day work trial (paid) → offer