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Most importantly, you share our passion for improving the lives of students through communication.\nThis role will include:\nBuild and ship internal and external tools that put LLMs and agents to work for team \nTranslate vague requests from non-technical teams into scoped problems - including pushing back when the ask isn't the right thing to build.\nOwn adoption, not just delivery: measure whether what you built is used, and fix or retire it when it isn't.\nEvaluate model output for accuracy, cost, and failure modes before it reaches a school.\nBuild and maintain features that operate robustly at scale, meeting the security and privacy standards K-12 requires.\nWork within and evolve our existing systems, including our monolith, and participate actively in PR reviews.\nChampion AI development practices across engineering, helping peers find what actually works.\nContribute to a technical culture focused on clear, simple code and continuous learning.\nOur ideal candidate will have the following:\nProfessional experience shipping backend services in Ruby, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or PHP - we care that you've shipped production code, not which language you shipped it in.\nFundamentally changed your own workflow using LLMs and AI agents, with specific examples of where they helped and where you caught them being wrong.\nSolid experience building application services on MySQL or PostgreSQL, with an understanding of relational databases beyond standard ORM usage.\nProficiency building and consuming RESTful APIs.\nExperience deploying, monitoring, and operating services on cloud infrastructure.\nComfort working from ambiguous requests alongside non-technical stakeholders.\nBonus points for:\nExperience with AWS specifically, including Aurora, RDS, or SQS.\nExperience in distributed systems, or evolving monolithic architectures.\nA track record of building internal tools that other teams came to depend on.\nK-12, EdTech, or another domain with meaningful privacy and security constraints.\n\nThe perks of working for us are great!\nYou’ll get your foot in the door as our company continues to grow. 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