Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Role Overview
As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend at EdVisorly, you will design, build, and scale backend services and APIs that power student-university interactions. You'll own critical systems for real-time data, automation, and integrations, working closely with product and data teams to deliver impactful features. This role offers high ownership and influence in a fast-growing startup environment, ideal for an experienced engineer who thrives on solving complex problems.
Perks & Benefits
This is a fully remote role with flexible work arrangements, allowing you to work from anywhere. You'll have real ownership and influence in a high-velocity, early-stage environment with direct impact across the company. EdVisorly offers the opportunity to work on meaningful problems in higher education, alongside a smart, mission-driven team. While not explicitly stated, typical remote tech perks include competitive compensation and growth opportunities.
Full Job Description
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack to join our growing product and engineering team. This is a hands-on role where you’ll design, build, and scale the systems that power student–university interactions. You’ll own critical applications and services that enable real-time data, automation, and integrations — and you’ll have the chance to shape product direction at a foundational stage.
This role is perfect for someone who thrives in fast-moving, high-growth environments, loves architecting elegant solutions to complex problems, and wants to see their work make an impact on the future of higher education.
What You’ll Own
🔹 Core Backend Development
Architect, build, and maintain scalable services, APIs, and applications, including our mobile application.
Drive improvements in reliability, performance, and security across distributed systems.
Automate onboarding and workflows by building ingestion jobs and database-driven configurations.
🔹 Collaboration & Cross-Functional Impact
Partner with product and data teams to design and deliver impactful features.
Work closely with Solutions Engineering and Customer Success to ensure seamless school deployments.
Contribute to system design discussions, technical decision-making, and mentorship within the team.
🔹 Continuous Improvement
Champion best practices in testing, code quality, and CI/CD automation.
Proactively identify bottlenecks and scale systems to handle high-volume data and transactions.
Stay ahead of emerging frameworks, cloud technologies, and AI-driven tools to keep us innovative.
You Might Be a Fit If…
✅ You bring 5+ years of backend engineering experience — ideally in SaaS, EdTech, or high-growth startup environments.
✅ You're strong in Node.js and comfortable building with frameworks and languages such as Express, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, and other modern backend technologies.
✅ You have experience working with React and derivative frameworks, including React Native.
✅ You’ve built and scaled RESTful APIs (GraphQL a bonus) and know how to keep them clean, secure, and fast.
✅ You’ve worked across databases (Postgres, Redis, or NoSQL) and can design for scale, reliability, and performance.
✅ You’re comfortable in cloud-native environments (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure fine too) and can navigate Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform without blinking.
✅ You build with a security-first mindset — you know your way around OAuth2/OIDC, role- and policy-based auth, and compliance frameworks (SOC2, FERPA).
✅ You’ve touched CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability tools (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Sentry) — and you know they’re not “nice to have,” they’re table stakes.
✅ Bonus points if you’ve played with AI/ML integration (OpenAI, Hugging Face, vector search like FAISS/pgvector) or have a knack for developer productivity hacks using AI tools.
✅ You’re a self-starter who thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments, and you love the challenge of building 0→1.
✅ You’re a collaborator at heart — sharing knowledge, giving feedback, and celebrating wins with the team.
Why EdVisorly
✨ We’re solving a high-stakes, high-impact problem — helping institutions remove friction and students unlock brighter futures
✨ You’ll have real ownership in a high-velocity, early-stage environment with direct influence across the company
✨ You’ll help shape the future of a category-defining company, working alongside smart, ambitious, mission-first operators
✨ You’ll do the most meaningful work of your career, leaving a lasting legacy in how higher education serves students
We believe institutions thrive when students thrive.
At EdVisorly, we’re building a best-in-class team to transform higher education through AI-first technology and student-centered design. We welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences, united by a shared belief: empowering institutions is the fastest path to unlocking opportunity for students.
If you’re ready to help reshape the transfer journey, we’d love to meet you.
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