Senior Backend Engineer, Education Platform (Remote)

Air Reading; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Reading is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Product to join a distributed team focused on building backend services, APIs, and data models that power student placement, scheduling, and school reporting. You will collaborate with product, design, teachers, and school teams to identify problems, develop solutions, and measure impact on learning outcomes.

Proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, Express, Prisma, PostgreSQL, and React is valued, with AWS infrastructure and observability tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience owning, building and operating production web applications.
• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related technical field or related certification.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems including API and service design, data modeling, authorization, failure handling, performance optimization, and debugging.
• Proven ability to identify meaningful problems via user conversations, product data, or ops insights and drive end-to-end solutions with measurable impact.
• Strong product partnership skills: clarifying problems, proposing approaches, and adjusting scope when needed.
• Clear, thoughtful communication about priorities, alternatives, and tradeoffs with engineering, product and design teams.
• Deep proficiency in TypeScript; server on Node.js/Express/Prisma/PostgreSQL; client in React.
• Experience running production software on AWS (ECS Fargate, Aurora PostgreSQL, S3, CloudFront) with observability tools.
• Commitment to accessibility, privacy, and reliability in software used by children and schools.
• Demonstrated willingness to learn from students, teachers, coaches, and school staff and to mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Map student, teacher, and admin workflows with product and design; translate needs into scoped engineering work.
• Design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, and data models powering placement, scheduling, and reporting.
• Engage with teachers and operations staff; use feedback to define problems and validate solutions.
• Make tradeoffs among speed, usability, reliability, and maintainability during critical class moments.
• Measure impact of shipped work on classroom experience and learning outcomes; iterate accordingly.
• Use production data and logs to diagnose issues and improve reliability post-release.
• Contribute to a small team through code reviews, clear technical decisions, and mentoring teammates.

Skills

Product partnership

Communication

Mentoring

Accessibility

Privacy

Education

B.S. in Engineering or related field

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

Express

Prisma

PostgreSQL

React

AWS

Job description

Air Reading is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Product to join a distributed team focused on building backend services, APIs, and data models that power student placement, scheduling, and school reporting. You will collaborate with product, design, teachers, and school teams to identify problems, develop solutions, and measure impact on learning outcomes.

Proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, Express, Prisma, PostgreSQL, and React is valued, with AWS infrastructure and observability tooling.