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Software Engineer
Remote, United States
COMPANY OVERVIEW
At Accelerate Learning, we’re dedicated to engaging and inspiring STEM education for PreK-12. Our mission is to spark curiosity in the STEM classroom with programs designed by experienced teachers and STEM experts. Supporting over 9 million students and 750,000 teachers, we constantly adapt to educators’ needs and customer feedback to promote powerful teaching strategies that shape the future of STEM learning.
“For teachers, by teachers” is not a slogan—it’s a fact. Our award-winning product, STEMscopes, was incubated in the classroom and developed by over 200 teachers, science experts, and science professors.
We’re scaling rapidly and investing in cutting-edge cloud technologies, AI, and modern software practices to bring STEM education into the future. Join us, and your work will directly shape how millions of students learn.
POSITION SUMMARY
As a Software Engineer, you’ll contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of backend services and internal tools. You’ll work closely with senior engineers and architects, applying best practices and patterns while gaining exposure to modern frameworks and event-driven systems.
This is a full-stack position where you’ll gain exposure to event-driven architectures, AI-powered features, and advanced AWS services, while growing your expertise in both backend and frontend development.
Why Accelerate Learning?
At Accelerate Learning, we’re dedicated to engaging and inspiring STEM education for PreK-12. Our mission is to spark curiosity in the STEM classroom with programs designed by experienced teachers and STEM experts. Supporting over 9 million students and 750,000 teachers, we constantly adapt to educators’ needs and customer feedback to promote powerful teaching strategies that shape the future of STEM learning.
“For teachers, by teachers” is not a slogan—it’s a fact. Our award-winning product, STEMscopes, was incubated in the classroom and developed by over 200 teachers, science experts, and science professors.
We’re scaling rapidly and investing in cutting-edge cloud technologies, AI, and modern software practices to bring STEM education into the future. Join us, and your work will directly shape how millions of students learn.
POSITION SUMMARY
As a Software Engineer, you’ll contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of backend services and internal tools. You’ll work closely with senior engineers and architects, applying best practices and patterns while gaining exposure to modern frameworks and event-driven systems.
This is a full-stack position where you’ll gain exposure to event-driven architectures, AI-powered features, and advanced AWS services, while growing your expertise in both backend and frontend development.
Why Accelerate Learning?
- Purpose-driven work: Every line of code supports teachers and inspires students.
- Modern stack: Cloud-native, serverless, AI technologies.
- Growth opportunities: Work alongside senior engineers and gain exposure to architectural decision-making.
We are looking for team players who thrive in a collaborative agile environment and are eager to contribute to our mission of transforming STEM education.
Location: Onsite two days a week, if you live within a 45-mile radius of the Houston headquarters. Remote for those outside of the Houston metropolitan area.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
Key responsibilities include:
Location: Onsite two days a week, if you live within a 45-mile radius of the Houston headquarters. Remote for those outside of the Houston metropolitan area.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, build, and maintain applications for online digital STEM applications.
- Develop services and APIs using TypeScript/Node.js, Fastify, and React.
- Contribute to React frontend development and integration with EdTech applications, ensuring a seamless user experience.
- Support service-to-service communication strategies and event-driven architecture.
- Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms (JWT, API keys, personal access tokens).
- Collaborate with teammates on audit logging, error handling, testing, and observability for high-quality, resilient applications.
- Work with GitHub for version control, pull requests, and code reviews, and Jira for agile workflows and issue tracking.
- Leverage AWS services (Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, etc.) for cloud-based deployments and scalability.
- Partner with Product, engineering, and QA teams to deliver features that directly impact educators and learners.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 3–5 years of professional experience in software development.
- Proficiency with TypeScript/Node.js (backend) and React (frontend).
- Experience with APIs, authentication, and service-to-service communication.
- Experience with AWS deployments and cloud services.
- Strong understanding of testing practices (Playwright or similar) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and willingness to learn.
- A collaborative team player with strong communication skills for effective collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.
- Bonus: Familiarity with Fastify, Zod, OpenTelemetry, GraphQL, or gRPC. AI/ML integrations or serverless-first architecture.
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