# Full-Stack Software Engineer

Full-Stack Software Engineer Are you passionate about building innovative web applications and using AI to address real-world learning challenges? Do you want to help shape the future of education? PrairieLearn is an early-stage EdTech startup. We are hiring talented Full-Stack Software Engineers. Location: Fully remote (anywhere in the US) Position Type: Full-time Visa Sponsorship: Unfortunately, we cannot sponsor visas at this time. About Us PrairieLearn is an open-source assessment platform, originally developed at the University of Illinois and now used at top universities across the US, including Berkeley, Princeton, Michigan, and UIUC. We empower mastery-based learning and large-scale assessment with an emphasis on reliability and innovation. We are like a "power-user" version of Gradescope/Canvas/Moodle. We’re also developing AI tooling in the product, including LLM agents to help instructors create content, and vision-language models to help grade student work. This is practical, user-facing AI work with real-world impact - not a research sandbox. About the Role We are a small, profitable, open-source, bootstrapped company growing quickly. Our users love us and we have ver

- **Id**: 743622
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/prairielearn-full-stack-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-02-04T20:06:03Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-02-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T06:49:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 279
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3266
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule, Stock options, Unlimited PTO
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 690945
- **Name**: PrairieLearn
- **Domain**: prairielearn.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/prairielearn>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 180000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 180000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **tRPC** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 279

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T13:26:45Z
- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T18:59:39Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 5
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.182
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 279
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 180000
- **Is top pay**: no

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