Contract Senior Software Engineer (Fully Remote)

EducationSuperHighway; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EducationSuperHighway is seeking a senior full-stack engineer in the United States to own architecture decisions and deliver a multi-tenant platform before January 2027. You will extend payroll/HRIS integrations and build employee/employer-facing platforms, while designing reliable pipelines and compliance-aware financial workflows.

The role fits a contract with a path to full-time at a fast-moving nonprofit engineering team focused on education technology infrastructure and federal scholarship

Qualifications

• 7+ years of full-stack production experience
• Comfort with early-stage environments
• Fluency with AI coding tools
• Strong API integration skills
• Experience with relational data modeling
• Experience with background jobs and secure data handling

Responsibilities

• Extend payroll/HRIS integrations and build employee/employer-facing platforms.
• Design reliable pipelines and compliance-aware financial workflows.

Skills

Full-stack development

AI coding tools

API integration

Relational modeling

Background jobs

Secure data handling

Job description

• Contract role with path to full-time, working directly with the platform's designer.
• Own architecture decisions and ship a multi-tenant giving platform before January 2027.

What We're Looking For:

• 7+ years full-stack production experience, early-stage comfort, and AI coding tool fluency.
• Strong API integration, relational modeling, background jobs, and secure data handling.

The Work:

• Extend payroll/HRIS integrations and build employee/employer-facing platforms.
• Design reliable pipelines and compliance-aware financial workflows.

EducationSuperHighway

EducationSuperHighway is a national non-profit that connected 99.7% of American students to high-speed internet and now works to end the K-12 reading crisis through literacy tutoring scholarships. It is a small, fast-moving engineering team building the infrastructure for a new federal scholarship tax credit, with a culture of ownership and ambiguity.