YC-Backed EdTech Startup: Full Stack Engineer
Boston
High-growth Tech Startup – Engineering /
Full Time /
Remote
About the Company:
- Company Size: <20 People
- Approx Funding: ~$10M
- Investors: Backed by Y Combinator, Reach Capital, and other top VCs
- Company Stage: Seed
- Industry: EdTech, SaaS, Infrastructure
- Founding Year: 2021
- Tech Stack/Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Stimulus, Hotwire, Tailwind, Swift, Kotlin, Heroku, GitHub Actions
This team is rethinking how families access high-quality education—replacing the one-size-fits-all model with flexible, tech-powered learning. The product supports a fast-growing national network and is central to day-to-day learning, operations, and communication.
What You'll Do
- Help scale a platform used by families, educators, and operators across the country
- Build user-friendly experiences across web and mobile for learning, coordination, and communication
- Collaborate with a small, high-caliber team to shape roadmap and deliver end-to-end features
- Stay hands-on while contributing to architecture and core infrastructure
What you’ll need:
- Experience:
- 5+ years in software development, ideally with startup experience
- Experience working across both frontend and backend systems
- Proven ability to ship user-facing features quickly and cleanly
- Technical Skills:
- Strong product sensibility and attention to user experience
- Ability to work with modern mobile (Kotlin, Swift), backend and frontend frameworks (Rails, Stimulus, Tailwind or similar)
- Comfort working in fast-paced, high-ownership environments
- Bonus: experience building platforms for operationally intensive businesses
- Soft Skills:
- Clear communication and bias for action
- Mission-driven mindset and comfort with ambiguity
- A team-first approach
What you'll get:
- Competitive salary + meaningful early equity
- Remote-first work environment (US-based)
- A chance to help shape a critical layer of infrastructure in modern education
$130,000 - $190,000 a year
Compensation is salary range + meaningful equity in an early stage venture backed startup commensurate with experience.
