Senior Software Engineer Save

Overview

Join our product and engineering team to help us provide free tutoring to 12 million low-income students in the U.S.

Software engineers at UPchieve are full-stack, product engineers who own the success of our students and volunteers, from the first signup to the last lightbulb moment. Expect to spend 40 hours a week on some combination of software development, thinking up or testing ideas with teammates, revising product and technical strategy, helping and mentoring others, and doing what needs to be done, whatever it is, if it will get a tutor to every student who deserves one. Think startup energy, nonprofit purpose.

Given our early stage, you'll be instrumental in whether we accomplish our vision of scaling free, 24/7 online tutoring and college counseling. You’ll leave a mark on everything from strategy to culture across the organization, so come put your name on every corner of the world's best tutoring platform for low-income students!

This might be the right job for you if…

• Our mission is personal, and you'd chase it elsewhere if not here
• You're scrappy. You dig in and figure it out with what you've got. 🏴‍☠️
• You've got range. FE and BE, web and mobile, AI and infra, Figma and Jurassic period historical reenactments... you've dabbled.
• You're a team player and a teacher at heart, with a knack for and love of helping others grow
• You have high standards for quality and speed (and you know they're two sides of the same coin).

What you’ll do

• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with your PM, design, and engineering teammates while collaborating across the company to hit big product and business goals
• Own products and projects end-to-end. You'll dream up, test, design, and ship full-stack software that solves our users' biggest problems.
• Help others, especially engineers, through pairing, code reviews, peer mentorship, and depending on seniority formal management of a direct report
• Get in people's heads. You'll talk to students, volunteers, and customers. You'll look at numbers. You'll ask your coworkers great questions about our users, products, business, and mission.
• Stay on top of the latest technology, both in-house and in industry, to fuel creative ideas no one else thought of (including Claude)
• Raise the bar for engineering. You'll improve our social and software systems to drive high levels of quality, performance, scalability, and reliability of our platform while helping everyone ship better code faster.

Thank you for choosing to make a huge difference in the lives of millions of students!

Preferred experience

Here are some experiences we think would make a 🌟 candidate, but they aren't the **only** things that could do that. **You don't need to check all the boxes to apply.**

• Thrived in a startup environment with minimal structure
• Worked with a wide range of teams and touched every part of the SDLC (discovery, design, architecture, infrastructure, testing, monitoring, data, devops...)
• Has a personal connection to our mission (e.g., was a low-income student in the U.S., worked at a Title 1 high school, etc.)
• Has 7+ years of full-stack app development
• Has strong product and design sense
• Has some data analysis or data science chops
• Is interested in open source communities

Our recruiting process

Due to the volume of applications we get, it can take us a few weeks from when you submit your application to invite you to a screening call. We can typically only bring the top ~15 candidates forward to screening calls, which often works out to << 10% of applicants. While we do our best, due to the volume of applications we get, we can’t promise a response to every application.

(Pro tip: real humans do review your application! So, while it's probably a good idea to optimize your resume for some AI in a giant company's ATS, here it's better to optimize your resume for the hiring manager Chris.)

Interview stages

• Screening call (~30 mins)
• Collect references
• 2 Behavioral interviews (~2-3 hours)
• Case interview (~2 hours)
• Founder interview (~30 mins)
• Reference checks
• Offer!

Salary range

While our ideal candidate is pursuing a senior level role or above, we are considering candidates at varying experience or skill levels for this role. Ultimately, we will find the right person for the team and then bring them in at the right level.

U.S. work authorization

Right now, our small mighty team is focusing on candidates who are already authorized to work in the U.S. We're not set up to sponsor visas or handle immigration procedures at the moment. It's a tough call, and we're aiming to expand our capabilities in the future. If you're ready to work in the U.S., we'd love to connect with you!

Equal opportunity employer

Given our mission, it's probably no surprise we're big believers in equal opportunities for everyone. We're committed to creating a workplace that's as diverse as the students we serve. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, we comply with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members.