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Senior Software Engineer, LearnWith.AI (Remote) - $100,000/year USD

Crossover
South Africa
Full-time
5,000 – 5,000 / year
AI tools:
ChatGPT
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Full Description

If you're a highly skilled engineer drawn to ownership, strategic impact, and intricate technical problems, this role offers the opportunity to develop critical product features while guiding technical strategy and securing long-term stability and expansion. The technical choices you make will have a direct bearing on the product and its user base, granting you the freedom to innovate and the accountability to execute.

The Products You'll Contribute To Are Reshaping Education

* TeachTap: Uses AI to animate historical figures within a TikTok-style learning platform.

* TeachTales: Captivates students through personalized, immersive storytelling that enhances understanding.

* TimeBack: Functions as a learning companion integrated with existing applications, actively guiding students.

* Athena: Employs AI-generated video content and assessments to produce tangible educational results.

Your responsibility will be to steer the technical advancement of our products, ensuring they remain scalable, maintainable, and resilient over time. Working in close partnership with product teams, you'll convert broad requirements into concrete technical designs and address intricate challenges while upholding rigorous quality benchmarks. The decisions you make will define the product's trajectory and affect how thousands of students engage with learning.

We emphasize careful planning and upfront architectural work. Our AI-first methodology automates routine tasks, allowing you to concentrate on high-leverage decisions and creative problem-solving. You'll enjoy significant autonomy and the capacity to shape product direction, with a focus on enduring stability and scalability.

If you're prepared to spearhead the technical transformation of our SaaS products and harness generative AI to explore new frontiers, we look forward to connecting with you.

What You Will Be Doing

* Feature Development: Architecting and delivering new capabilities with an emphasis on scalability, maintainability, and sustained product value.

* Requirement Engineering: Partnering with the product team to clarify requirements and guiding technical conversations to ensure features support product objectives.

* Operations and Maintenance: Overseeing product reliability, optimizing performance, and proactively detecting and addressing potential issues.

* Technical Design: Executing high-stakes technical decisions that directly influence user experience and product scalability.

What You Won’t Be Doing

* Jumping between short-lived projects or pursuing trendy technologies driven by hype.

* Contributing to internal IT infrastructure or outsourced work with no meaningful user engagement.

* Being trapped in unproductive meetings or consumed by monotonous infrastructure tasks.

Basic Requirements

Senior Software Engineer key responsibilities

* At least 1 year of full-stack development experience, working on front and backend features.

* At least 2 years as the primary technical contributor for a SaaS product, driving strategic technical decisions.

* At least 4 years of experience working on actual SaaS products, not outsourcing or internal IT projects.

* Experience in using generative AI in your day-to-day development work.

About LearnWith.AI

LearnWith.AI is an edtech startup that leverages AI and subject matter experts to cultivate a new way of learning. Our unique approach leverages 50+ years of learning science, cutting-edge data analytics and AI-powered coaching. In doing so, we can help students learn more, learn faster, and learn better - and have fun while doing it. We are a remote-first company that hires globally via Crossover.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with us

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5542-ZA-COUNTRY-SeniorSoftware.010

Applications go to the hiring team directly