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We started with a simple mission to democratize access to high-quality coaching so that every student in the world has an equal opportunity to access the best opportunities. \nAs the world’s leading network of top admissions coaches in medical, legal, business, and college studies, we’re building software and services in one place-disrupting long-entrenched application processes with products and experiences that strive to provide an equal platform for candidates from diverse backgrounds worldwide. \nAs one of the fastest-growing edtech firms in the world, we are backed by some of the leading venture capital firms and investors in the world, including Zeev Ventures, Quiet Capital, Craft Ventures and Jeff Fluhr (Founder of Stubhub).\nAbout the role\nWe’re looking for a strong full-stack engineer who can own the complete product development process: understand a business problem, define the solution, design the user experience, build the software, and improve it after launch.\nYou’ll work closely with leadership and business teams, combining hands-on engineering with product management and design responsibilities. You should be highly effective with AI coding tools and have the technical depth to independently review, debug, secure, and maintain everything you ship.\nThis is an in-person role requiring 5 day/week in our NYC office.\nWhat you’ll own\nTranslate business needs and user feedback into product requirements, user flows, prototypes, and prioritized development plans.\nDesign and build polished applications across the front end, back end, database, and integrations.\nMake architecture decisions and scope releases that balance speed, reliability, and future maintainability.\nUse AI tools throughout development to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation.\nOwn deployment, production monitoring, incident resolution, and ongoing improvements.\nMeasure whether your work improves adoption, conversion, operational efficiency, or another relevant business outcome.\nRequired technical skills\nFront-end engineering\nStrong proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and Next.js, including component architecture, hooks, routing, and client/server rendering.\nStrong HTML and CSS skills, with the ability to implement responsive layouts and consistent visual design.\nExperience managing forms, validation, application state, asynchronous data, caching, and loading/error states.\nAbility to diagnose rendering issues and improve page performance, bundle size, and unnecessary network requests.\nAbility to build accessible interfaces with semantic markup, keyboard navigation, and appropriate focus management.\nBack-end development and API design\nStrong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript, using a framework such as Express, NestJS, or an equivalent.\nExperience designing and implementing REST APIs, including validation, pagination, consistent error handling, and API documentation.\nExperience implementing authentication, authorization, role-based access, and third-party integrations.\nAbility to build reliable background jobs and webhook processing, including retries, duplicate-event handling, and failure recovery.\nUnderstanding of timeouts, rate limits, caching, and common application bottlenecks.\nDatabases and data modeling\nStrong practical knowledge of PostgreSQL and SQL.\nAbility to design relational schemas, relationships, constraints, and indexes.\nExperience with database migrations, transactions, and investigating slow queries.\nFamiliarity with an ORM such as Prisma or Drizzle, along with the ability to inspect and optimize the underlying SQL.\nAbility to handle data integrity, concurrent updates, and safe changes to production data.\nDeployment and production operations\nExperience independently deploying and operating applications on a cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Vercel.\nWorking knowledge of Git, pull requests, CI/CD pipelines, environment configuration, and secrets management.\nFamiliarity with Docker and reproducible development environments.\nAbility to set up useful logs, error tracking, monitoring, and alerts.\nExperience handling releases, database migrations, rollbacks, and production debugging.\nTesting, security, and code quality\nAbility to write meaningful unit, integration, and end-to-end tests using tools such as Vitest/Jest and Playwright/Cypress.\nStrong debugging skills across browser behavior, API requests, application logs, and database queries.\nPractical understanding of secure sessions, server-side permission checks, input validation, SQL injection, XSS, and protection of sensitive data.\nAbility to structure maintainable code, review changes critically, and refactor without breaking existing behavior.\nAI-assisted software development\nRegular, hands-on use of tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Codex.\nAbility to give AI tools useful repository context, break complex work into verifiable tasks, and guide implementation across multiple files.\nAbility to evaluate generated code for correctness, security, maintainability, and compatibility with the existing application.\nExperience using tests, type checks, linting, and code review to validate AI-generated changes.\nAbility to explain and debug the resulting code independently and recognize when an AI-generated approach should be revised or discarded.\nProduct and design skills\nProduct discovery: Speak with users, understand workflows, identify the underlying problem, and challenge assumptions constructively.\nPrioritization: Define a focused first release, make scope trade-offs, and connect engineering effort to business value.\nInteraction design: Create user flows and prototypes using Figma or code, including edge cases and failure states.\nVisual execution: Apply sound judgment around typography, spacing, hierarchy, consistency, and responsive behavior.\nMeasurement: Instrument important user actions and combine analytics with feedback to guide improvements.\nCommunication: Explain decisions clearly and coordinate with nontechnical stakeholders.\nExperience we’re looking for\nTypically 5+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent evidence of substantial independent ownership.\nA track record of shipping and maintaining full-stack production applications.\nExamples of features or products where you personally influenced the requirements, design, and implementation.\nExperience taking loosely defined problems through to a working release.\nNice to have\nPython and FastAPI.\nExperience building AI features using model APIs, structured outputs, tool calling, or retrieval, with attention to evaluation, latency, and cost.\nExperience integrating CRMs, payment systems, analytics platforms, or business workflow tools.\nExperience as an early startup engineer or independent product builder.\nWhy you'll love Inspira\nAmazing people with a great vision and values\nMission-driven team culture focused on student success\nYour work directly impacts the lives and careers of students across the globe\nHealth, 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