Senior Fullstack Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack to design and implement solid architectural solutions with the rest of the engineering team, supporting our Discover product - a powerful analytics platform that helps K-12 administrators track and manage educational software usage, understand app engagement trends, and make data-driven decisions about licensing and technology investments. With your passion for quickly solving problems and ability to implement high-quality code while continuously collaborating with other amazing team members, you will be building features that provide actionable insights for school districts. You'll work across the full stack, from crafting intuitive React dashboards and data visualizations to designing scalable Go to backend services and optimizing analytics queries. Our engineering team is built on a purpose-driven culture of collaboration, openness, trust, and transparency with amazing individuals who push the limits and think outside the box every day.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and continually improve our Pear Assessment product and related services.
• Build and ship features that power real-time formative assessments and classroom engagement experiences for educators and students.
• Develop and maintain high-performance backend services in TypeScript that power the assessment platform.
• Develop intuitive, high-performance React interfaces for interactive assessments, dashboards, and data visualization.
• Develop and enhance OpenSearch-based semantic search systems to enable fast, relevant discovery across hundreds of millions of educational documents.
• Optimize data pipelines and queries to deliver low-latency insights and feedback to teachers during live and asynchronous sessions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and data teams to translate educational needs into impactful technical solutions.
• Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance under high usage across classrooms and districts.
• Continuously improve code quality, testing practices, and engineering standards within a collaborative team environment.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Architect and operate cloud-native systems on AWS, leveraging services like SQS for asynchronous processing and event-driven workflows.
• Work with MongoDB and other data stores to model, store, and efficiently query large-scale assessment and engagement data.
• Integrate AWS IoT services where applicable to support real-time classroom device interactions and data ingestion.
• Integrate LLM/AI services to power intelligent features such as automated insights, content generation, and enhanced search relevance.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of professional industry experience building and delivering scalable software features in a production environment.
• Strong experience with Javascript/Typescript/Node.js/Python and familiarity with concurrency patterns, APIs, and service-oriented architecture.
• Experience building modern React applications with TypeScript, including working with APIs, state management, and responsive UI components.
• Familiarity with designing and consuming APIs (REST/WSS) and contributing to backend services handling moderate to high traffic.
• Working knowledge of databases (SQL or NoSQL such as MongoDB/PostgreSQL), including basic query optimization and data modeling.
• Understanding of caching concepts (e.g., Redis) and performance optimization techniques.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and services like S3, SQS, or similar.
• Experience with modern frontend tooling and libraries (e.g., React Query, component libraries).
• Ability to build reliable, maintainable, and scalable features with guidance from senior engineers.
• Strong ownership mindset with a focus on code quality, testing, and continuous improvement.
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment with a willingness to learn and grow.
• Motivated by the opportunity to build impactful products in the education space.