Senior Software Engineer, Optimizer

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🕒 September 16

🗽 New York, Massachusetts – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Timely

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Early Stage VC on 2022-12

Education • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Timely is an AI-powered scheduling platform focused on K-12 education. Timely combines AI optimization with educator-led support to build district master schedules that reflect priorities, constraints, and student needs more quickly and precisely. The company is built by former educators and district leaders and markets its platform to school districts, claiming deployments in 22 states, 90+ districts, and supporting roughly 500,000 students. Timely emphasizes systemwide visibility, smarter staffing, FTE reallocation, budget savings, and higher rates of students with complete schedules.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain core optimization technology, full-stack systems, and data-intensive systems powering school scheduling • Lead challenging technical projects across optimization, full-stack, and data domains • Operationalize the optimizer product for scale and usage • Participate in on-call support as needed • Establish tests and observability • Run data-driven experiments to inform core technology decisions • Partner with product to improve the optimizer’s core algorithm, model-builders, and full-stack job orchestration framework • Research, recommend, and implement extensions using generative AI and machine learning • Lead major projects and initiatives and support the product squad in meeting goals • Define and disambiguate new opportunities • Provide technical leadership for key areas of the optimizer stack and wider engineering team • Troubleshoot customer issues and provide timely resolutions • Mentor and support junior engineers • Promote continuous improvement and collaboration

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of development experience • Demonstrated track record of shipping value to customers while contributing across the stack • Prior success driving software delivery on complex and challenging technology projects • Depth of knowledge in linear optimization modeling and solvers, application stacks built heavily on machine learning, product and infrastructure stacks leveraging generative AI, or backend API and asynchronous task development • Ability to learn and contribute to frontend engineering, cloud infrastructure, and data engineering as needed • Demonstrated ability to dive deeply into complex product requirements and challenging technical domains • Proficiency developing and maintaining scalable web applications • Experience implementing unit and integration tests • Experience working with CI/CD pipelines • Strong communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional environments • Commitment to continuous improvement through code reviews, pairing, and collaborative problem-solving • Experience and comfort operating in a fast startup environment • Prior EdTech experience is a plus but not required • Preference for candidates based in New York or Boston • Ability to answer whether work authorization sponsorship in the United States will be required

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Unlimited PTO • Professional development opportunities • Free access to online learning programs • Fully remote work

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