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The advocacy organization works to empower families, especially lower-income families, with the freedom to choose the best K-12 education for their children. The scholarship fund is building the national platform to raise billions of new dollars for K-12 scholarships through the Education Freedom Tax Credit (EFTC), which beginning January 1, 2027, will allow donors to contribute to scholarship-granting organizations and receive a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit of up to $1,700. This is a unique opportunity to join a small, cross-functional pod in Austin and help set the technical patterns for a growing engineering organization ahead of the EFTC’s launch.\nLocation: Austin, TX (in person)\nThe Opportunity\nThe Senior Full-Stack Engineer builds the web applications and platform services behind the scholarship fund’s work: the Partner Portal and its behavioral platforms. Working in person in Austin within a small, cross-functional pod alongside a Product Manager and Operations/CI partners, the engineer will own products from first prototype through production and ongoing improvement. As the organization grows its engineering team ahead of the Education Freedom Tax Credit’s launch, the engineer will help set the technical patterns that let multiple pods build independently without fragmenting the architecture.\nWhat You Will Own\nWeb Applications & Platform Services\nDesign and build web applications and platform services from first prototype to production\nBuild within the Partner Portal, a Next.js / TypeScript / Convex application hosted on Vercel, with Clerk for authentication and Sentry for monitoring, as well as the behavioral platforms\nBuild clean, accessible front ends and reliable back-end services and APIs\nDesign and build AI-powered features, including LLM-powered tools, chatbots, and AI-assisted workflows, where they add real value\nWrite well-tested, maintainable code, take an active part in code review, and instrument features with logging and error monitoring so issues are caught before users notice them\nShip through the team’s CI/CD pipelines across dev, staging, and production, applying shared security practices: authentication, access control, and dependency updates\nSystems Integration\nBuild and maintain custom APIs and integrations between the organization’s applications and third-party platforms\nHandle the details that make integrations dependable: authentication, pagination, rate limits, retries, error handling, and logging\nSupport data pipelines and data quality checks that feed reporting and day-to-day operations\nProduct, Team & Partner Collaboration\nPartner closely with the Product Manager to translate product goals and business requirements into technical approaches, scope work, identify tradeoffs, and deliver iteratively\nWork directly with designers, program staff, and stakeholders to understand needs and validate solutions\nServe as a technical point of contact for third-party vendors, agencies, and platform providers, leading integration work (API contracts, data formats, timelines, and testing) and reviewing partner-delivered code for quality, security, and architectural fit\nEvaluate new tools and vendors and make clear build-vs-buy recommendations\nStep in to support other pods and projects as priorities shift\nWho You Are\nA senior engineer who is as comfortable architecting a system as writing the code to build it, and who does their best work as part of a small, in-person team. 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