Senior Software Engineer – AI Platform Leader (Remote)

StrongMind; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Holiday week off at Christmas

Job summary

StrongMind is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help design and operate AI-enabled learning systems, with remote-first collaboration across product, data, and engineering teams.

You will drive architecture, improve developer experience, and influence multiple teams while aligning with StrongMind's values of kindness, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and grit. This role supports flexible, remote work while delivering high-impact solutions for educators and students nationwide.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production code.
• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating production software systems at scale.
• Track record of setting technical direction for a team or major system and shipping the associated outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to establish shared patterns, templates, or guardrails that other engineers adopt.
• Strong system design skills—scaling patterns, reliability controls (timeouts, retries, backpressure, caching), and first‑class observability
• Experience leading refactors, deprecations, or modernization efforts that reduce long-term cost of change
• Proven ability to influence engineering direction across multiple teams through writing, reviews, and coaching
• Strong cross‑functional partnership skills with Product, Design, and Engineering Management
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including decision docs, design summaries, and incident follow‑ups
• Alignment with StrongMind's core values: Kindness, Accountability, Collaboration, Innovation, and Grit

Responsibilities

• Lead design reviews and implementation for larger, cross-cutting efforts; set technical direction within a scope
• Establish reusable patterns—service templates, libraries, guardrails, and default configurations that multiple teams adopt
• Drive refactors and reliability improvements that measurably reduce recurring defects and incident volume
• Introduce data contracts, validation gates, and coordinated migrations that align shared entities and ownership
• Improve performance practices by introducing dashboards, benchmarks, and post-incident systemic fixes; coach others on effective use of AI-assisted tools
• Introduce security and privacy guardrails (secure templates, CI checks, safer defaults) that reduce recurring findings across the team
• Lead team-level planning: establish shared expectations for breakdown, sizing, and sequencing; surface risks early and keep work flowing
• Create communication norms (design/decision docs, incident comms templates) and mentoring structures (onboarding plans, buddy systems) that scale the team
• Unblock teammates on hard technical problems and advocate for scope decisions in product terms
• This position requires availability to work core business hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Arizona time, Monday through Friday.

Skills

Software design

System design

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Observability

Tools

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

StrongMind is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help design and operate AI-enabled learning systems, with remote-first collaboration across product, data, and engineering teams.

You will drive architecture, improve developer experience, and influence multiple teams while aligning with StrongMind's values of kindness, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and grit. This role supports flexible, remote work while delivering high-impact solutions for educators and students nationwide.