Senior Software Engineer - Newsela Writing Team (Contract) - Remote

Overview

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer Contractor for the Writing product team. This is a hands-on role on a small, full-stack team building AI-powered learning experiences.

In Short

• Join a small, full-stack team building AI-powered learning experiences.
• Work across the product end-to-end: frontend, backend, data, and LLM-driven services.
• Engage actively with AI coding agents to enhance development processes.
• Own the full lifecycle of product features from conception to production.
• Provide substantive code reviews and architectural feedback.
• Drive delivery and planning efforts within the team.
• Improve engineering practices over time.
• Comfortable with production debugging across the stack.
• Strong async written communication skills are essential.
• Experience in building on agentic developer tooling is a plus.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production web applications.
• Strong full-stack range with modern React/TypeScript frontends and a Pythonic backend.
• Track record of owning ambiguous problems end-to-end.
• Substantive code review history.
• Active daily use of AI coding agents.
• Strong written communication skills.

Benefits

• Work with a leading education technology company.
• Contribute to meaningful classroom learning solutions.
• Flexible remote work environment.
• Opportunity to impact the education sector positively.