Senior Full Stack Engineer

Role Description

Be a Part of our Team! Join a working team that is dedicated to the mission of the work we do!

Teaching Strategies is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help build and evolve the systems that child care centers rely on to run their businesses. This engineer will work primarily across our Python backend and web application surfaces, with a focus on:

• Family billing
• Payments
• Invoices
• Account administration
• Billing solution management
• Reporting
• Other back-office capabilities

In this role, you will take ownership of meaningful product and service work from discovery through delivery. You will:

• Translate product ideas and operational needs into clear technical plans
• Make pragmatic engineering decisions around architecture and technical debt
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, QA, support, and other engineers

This role is expected to use AI-assisted development practices where they improve quality, speed, and clarity.

Specific Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, build, test, and maintain full stack product capabilities for family billing and related back-office workflows
• Develop backend services, APIs, task processing, and business logic primarily in Python
• Build and improve web application experiences using the existing frontend stack
• Make pragmatic, informed decisions about technical debt, refactoring, sequencing, and tradeoffs
• Partner with product, design, QA, customer-facing teams, and non-technical stakeholders
• Use AI-assisted development throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Help define, evaluate, and improve team practices for effective AI use
• Seek input from architecture, design, security, infrastructure, or specialized domain experts
• Improve quality and reliability through automated tests and careful rollout practices
• Build cross-product and cross-service technical knowledge
• Participate in team planning, estimation, incident response, production support, and continuous improvement

Qualifications

• 5-15+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong Python backend development experience
• Experience building and maintaining web applications with JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Experience with billing, payments, invoicing, financial workflows, account administration
• Experience with AI-assisted software development is preferred
• Interest in working in an AI-first engineering culture
• Practical understanding of relational or NoSQL data modeling
• Strong judgment around authorization, privacy, data integrity, and operational risk
• Ability to reason through existing systems and deliver improvements
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and raise the technical quality of a team
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Strong bias for pragmatic execution
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, App Engine and/or Flask is a plus
• Interest in early childhood education and building software that supports teachers

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Employee Equity Appreciation Program
• Health and wellness insurance benefits
• 401k with employer match
• Flexible work environment
• Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth
• Best in class technology equipment for every employee
• Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field