Senior Software Engineer

Explicitly requires vibe/agentic coding skills and AI-native workflows (prompt engineering, Spec-Driven Development, RALPH Loops) to rapidly ship features. About the Role Senior Software Engineer to lead development of backend and generative-AI content pipelines for a newly funded edtech product, building an AI workflow engine and resilient, scalable Python/TypeScript infrastructure. Act as technical lead for agentic coding, prompt and context engineering, and ship multiple substantial features per week. Job Description Role Senior Software Engineer (full-time, salaried) to join a small, growing engineering team building new edtech products. The role is focused on back-end systems, generative AI content pipelines, and building an AI workflow engine and agentic orchestration to support teachers and students. Key Responsibilities Serve as a senior individual contributor and technical lead, reporting to the Head of Engineering and collaborating with product leaders. Ship multiple substantial features per week using agentic coding workflows and AI-assisted development. Design and implement the AI workflow engine: graph-based agentic orchestration with nodes, conditional edges, interrupts, human-in-the-loop circuit breakers, durable execution, and long-running work that survives restarts and outages. Compose and steward agentic pipelines: write detailed prompts/specifications, orchestrator agents, dispatch agent teams, and engineer RALPH loops with completion guarantees. Architect resilient, high-scale backend systems across Python and TypeScript; own system design, API boundaries, and database performance to ensure availability and security. Maintain and extend the context layer (Agent Skills, AGENTS.md ) and produce living production artifacts such as versioned prompt chains and annotated datasets. Build evaluation harnesses and cross-provider benchmarks for cost, latency, and quality; implement durable execution and provider-agnostic model routing. Review teammates’ and contractors’ work, write PR comments and design docs, and raise the engineering bar through collaboration and code review. Requirements Proven experience as an AI-native engineer using agentic/AI-assisted development workflows. Expert-level prompt engineering and context engineering skills; experience with Spec-Driven Development (e.g., GitHub Spec Kit). Experience building backend AI orchestration layers and agentic pipelines; familiarity with graph-based orchestration concepts (nodes, edges, interrupts, circuit breakers). Strong backend engineering skills in Python and TypeScript; systems design and API/database performance tuning for scale. Experience designing durable execution for long-running work, evaluation harnesses, structured outputs, and versioned prompt chains. Comfortable writing production-grade specifications, prompts, and Agent Skills; able to operate autonomously in a small team and ship frequently. Familiarity with Claude Code and/or OpenAI Codex is expected; familiarity with LangGraph or equivalent orchestration tooling is desirable. Preferred / Helpful Experience building edtech products and handling sensitive education data (COPPA, CIPA, FERPA, PPRA, SOC 2). Experience with annotated datasets, cross-provider benchmarking, and cost/latency/quality trade-offs. Salary: $160,000 - $190,000 per year (salaried) Employer-sponsored health insurance (CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield) Employer-sponsored dental and vision insurance (MetLife) Participation in Vanguard 403(b) with 3% employer match Paid Time Off (vacation/PTO 20 days), paid holidays, paid parental leave, sick/safe leave, "Me Days", and ability to earn paid comp time Annual continuous learning budget (available after 6 months) FSA and Dependent Care FSA access 1x salary company-paid life insurance Wishbone pet insurance benefit Ability to work remotely and set your own hours (within reason) Location & Work Type Remote, USA-based; full-time, salaried. Start date: ASAP. Skills Agentic Coding Prompt Engineering Context Engineering Spec-Driven Development System Design Distributed Systems Backend Development API Design Database Performance Architecture Evaluation & Benchmarking Collaboration and Code Review Autonomous / Self-directed Work Experience Level Senior USD 160,000 - 190,000/year Employment Type Full-time Employer-sponsored health insurance (CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield) Employer-sponsored dental and vision insurance (MetLife) Vanguard 403(b) with 3% employer match Paid parental leave Sick and safe paid time off Ability to earn paid comp time Annual continuous learning budget (after 6 months) FSA and Dependent Care FSA access 1x salary company-paid life insurance Wishbone pet insurance benefit Ability to work remotely and set your own hours #J-18808-Ljbffr