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Nerdy

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501 - 1000 employees

📚 Education

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

💰 $150M Post-IPO Equity - Nerdy on 2021-09

Education • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Nerdy is an education technology company that combines live instruction (through Varsity Tutors) with AI-powered learning tools on a purpose-built platform. It offers live 1-to-1 tutoring, weekly prep classes, workshops, instant session playback, and AI features such as session summaries, adaptive diagnostics, an on-demand AI Tutor, and a Tutor Copilot to surface examples and exercises. The platform covers 3,000+ subjects and uses data-driven expert curation and AI-based matching to connect learners with high-rated tutors and personalize practice and study agents.

📋 Description

• Serve as the technical point of reference for the squad and broader engineering team, ensuring best practices in architecture, performance optimization, and accessibility standards are upheld. • Lead the design and architectural discussions for systems, making pivotal decisions on frameworks, state management patterns, component architecture, and design systems. • Advocate for and ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code. Conduct regular code reviews and provide mentorship to team members. • Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, provide technical insights, and ensure the timely delivery of features. • Contribute to the engineering department's strategy and vision, bringing innovative ideas to improve our customer-facing experiences. • Address complex technical challenges, innovate solutions, and optimize existing systems for scalability and performance. • Mentor and develop team members, helping them to grow in their technical roles and careers. • Leverage AI-native tools and approaches to improve development speed, product capabilities, and engineering effectiveness across the software lifecycle.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and evolving complex, high-scale systems and customer-facing applications. • Strong full-stack expertise, including domain in: • Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript • Backend: Javascript, Java, Golang • Explicit mentoring of senior-level engineers regularly, leading to results. • Significant experience in AWS-based cloud architecture environments. • In-depth knowledge of modern software engineering practices, design patterns, and architectures. • Experienced with AI-native tools that enhance productivity and speed (Cursor, Make.com, Supabase, Netlify, Claude Code, n8n, Firecrawl, ChatGPT, Grok, Bolt, Vercel, etc). • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Experience designing high-traffic web applications and scalable distributed services. • Demonstrated experience in collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. • A strong owner willing to roll up their sleeves. This role includes coding and reviewing the code of others. • Ability to implement customer-facing solutions that solve the customers' true needs with exceptional user experiences.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive USD Compensation: Enjoy a market-leading rate (Contractor role) • 100% Remote (Home Country Only): Work from anywhere in your home country—no relocation required, no borders crossed. • Flexible Time Off: Our flexible PTO lets you recharge on your own terms and when you need it the most. • Local Holiday Pay: We honor your nation’s official holidays with paid time off—celebrate what matters to you. • Continuous Learning: Get a free, all-inclusive learning membership for you and your household—including 1-on-1 tutoring hours, unlimited on-demand classes, and access to our full suite of learning products and services. • Supercharge with AI: Gain exclusive access to cutting-edge AI tools that boost your productivity, making you feel almost super-human (cape not included). • Feedback-Rich, Collaborative Culture: Tap into regular training, peer reviews, and a team that treats every team member as a vital collaborator and owner in our success. • Make a Global Impact: Your expertise fuels an innovative platform used by learners around the world—be part of something transformative.