Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack
TrulyHired
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Job summary
TrulyHired, through MagicSchool, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) to develop features that directly impact educators. The engineer will own projects, from concept to delivery, ensuring quality and user satisfaction.
With a focus on fostering innovation in education through AI, MagicSchool values strong communication skills and a team-oriented approach in its candidates. Full-time benefits include unlimited vacation, health insurance, and stock options.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as an engineer, preferably 7+ years.
- Strong communication skills and an emotionally intelligent, team-oriented mindset.
- Ability to take end-to-end ownership of features.
Responsibilities
- Own full features and products from idea through delivery.
- Collaborate with designers and product managers to prioritize features.
- Debug complex code and produce quality code rapidly.
Skills
Job description
MagicSchool is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack). The engineer will take end-to-end ownership of developing new and existing features, ensuring they integrate well with the system architecture, deliver high-quality code, and focus on user impact. They will collaborate closely with designers and product managers, engage with users to understand their needs, and advocate for building the right features effectively.
- Own full features and products from idea through delivery, ensuring extensibility and system fit.
- Write and debug complex, high-quality code rapidly and maintainably.
- Collaborate with designers and product managers to prioritize and refine features based on user experience and feedback.
- Technologies required: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Serverless & Edge functions, SQL, PostgreSQL; Python is a plus.
- Minimum 5 years engineering experience, preferably 7+ years and startup experience.
- Strong communication skills; emotionally intelligent and team-oriented mindset.
- Work impacts over 7 million teachers using MagicSchool’s AI platform.
- Full-time benefits include unlimited time off, employer-paid health insurance options, stock options vested over 4 years, 401(k) match, and wellness stipend.
- Emphasis on building cutting-edge AI technology to improve education equity and efficiency.
- Values include educator empowerment, innovation, responsibility, diversity, and excellence.
WHO WE ARE: MagicSchool is the premier generative AI platform for teachers. We’re just over 2 years old, and more than 7 million teachers from all over the world have joined our platform. Join a top team at a fast growing company that is working towards real social impact. Make an account and try us out at our website and connect with our passionate community on our Wall of Love.
The Senior Software Engineer will take end-to-end ownership of full features and products, both new and existing. They will feel a sense of ownership over these features and products far beyond just taking tickets – they will obsess over speed, quality, and user impact.
- Taking new features and products from idea to delivery
- Understands systems and architecture. Will make sure the new components fit within the existing system, and that they are designed in an extensible way.
- Produces a lot of quality code in a short amount of time.
- Effectively debugs complex code.
- Can build software that is easy for others to understand and easy to maintain.
- Helping us ensure we’re building the right things
- Develops opinions on the user experience.
- Is comfortable (and excited) to talk to users to understand their pain.
- Works closely with the designer and product manager to build the right things the right ways. Doesn’t just take tickets, pushes on priority and design.
- Working knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Serverless & Edge functions, SQL, and PostgreSQL.
- Gets a lot done: works hard, resourceful, does whatever it takes.
- Adaptable: smart, learns fast, curious.
- Builds relationships easily: emotionally intelligent, communication, warm.
- Strong communication skills: team-first mindset, highly collaborative, can articulate decisions within team’s context.
- Nice to have: Python.
- 5+ years of experience as an engineer.
- Preferred: 7+ years of experience as an engineer.
- Preferred: Startup experience.
Please note that applications for this position will be accepted until 6/14/26 – applications received after this date will be reviewed on an intermittent basis. While we encourage early submissions, all applications received by the priority deadline will receive equal consideration. Thank you for your interest, and we look forward to reviewing your application.
- Work on cutting-edge AI technology that directly impacts educators and students.
- Join a mission‑driven team passionate about making education more efficient and equitable.
- Flexibility of working from home, while fostering a unique culture built on relationships, trust, communication, and collaboration with our team – no matter where they live.
- Unlimited time off to empower our employees to manage their work-life balance.
- Choice of employer-paid health insurance plans so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Dental and vision are also offered at very low premiums.
- Every employee is offered generous stock options, vested over 4 years.
- 401(k) match & monthly wellness stipend.
- Educators are Magic: Educators are the most important ingredient in the educational process – they are the magic, not the AI. Trust them, empower them, and put them at the center of leading change in service of students and families.
- Joy and Magic: Bring joy and magic into every learning experience – push the boundaries of what is possible with AI.
- Community: Foster community that supports one another during a time of rapid technological change. Listen to them and serve their needs.
- Innovation: The education system is outdated and in need of innovation and change – AI is an opportunity to bring equity, access, and serve the individual needs of students better than we ever have before.
- Responsibility: Put responsibility and safety at the forefront of the technological change that AI is bringing to education.
- Diversity: Diversity of thought, perspectives, and backgrounds helps us serve the wide audience of educators and students around the world.
- Excellence: Educators and students deserve the best – and we strive for the highest quality in everything we do.
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