Staff Product Engineer: Scale Critical EdTech Systems

OpenEd; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenEd in the United States is hiring a Staff Product Engineer to tackle the toughest problems across the stack. You’ll set direction, own outcomes of mission critical systems, and work with the CTO on long-term engineering strategy.

You’ll mentor the team and build scalable automations to drive the company’s education platform. You'll design financial, enrollment, and data flows; guard student PII; and push back when plans are not optimal.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building software including ownership of outcomes at fast-growing companies.
• Deep in TypeScript, React, Next.js and Node with PostgreSQL schema design and performance.
• Designed and shipped cross-team systems—payments, ledgers, workflows, integrations.
• Clear communicator; explain complex ideas to non-technical audiences.
• Bias for action; ownership and accountability in delivery.
• Interest in AI, exploring its use in developer workflows without losing control.

Responsibilities

• Own the design of mission critical systems with the most risk: wallets and ledgers, enrollment lifecycle, reimbursement reviews, and flows that move money and student records.
• Identify and tackle cross-cutting problems with no clear owner.
• Set engineering standards; lead design and code reviews; improve team output.
• Own data modeling and system design; ensure robust data models.
• Own reliability: define SLIs/SLOs, build monitors, incident response, blameless postmortems.
• Build the factory lines; automate checks, reviews, reports, rollouts, data fixes, docs.
• Guard student PII and company funds: FERPA, audits; partner with Security and Legal.
• Mentor engineers; grow judgment, not just output.
• Represent engineering with Product and leadership; push back when plans are wrong.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Systems design

Mentoring

Data modeling

Job description

OpenEd in the United States is hiring a Staff Product Engineer to tackle the toughest problems across the stack. You’ll set direction, own outcomes of mission critical systems, and work with the CTO on long-term engineering strategy.

You’ll mentor the team and build scalable automations to drive the company’s education platform. You'll design financial, enrollment, and data flows; guard student PII; and push back when plans are not optimal.