Edtech.com's Summary

SchooLinks is hiring a Product Engineer. The engineer will autonomously develop end-to-end features using full-stack technologies including Django and React, leveraging AI tools like Claude for planning, building, QA, and documentation. Collaboration with Product and Engineering leadership is essential to align on direction and ensure smooth integration with Marketing and Customer Success teams.

Highlights

Own full feature development cycle: specification, development, QA, documentation, and cross-team communication.
Develop clean, maintainable full-stack code using Django, Django Rest Framework, and React.
Employ AI tools such as Claude and Cursor actively in the planning and development process.
Collaborate with leadership for solution alignment and independently execute once plans are set.
Write tests, manage technical debt, and scale solutions for millions of users.
Participate in on-call rotations for production support.
Require 5+ years experience in full-stack engineering with strong Django/React skills and 3+ years AWS and SQL production experience.
Preferred experience with Celery and Redis; domain knowledge in educational data and workforce development is a bonus.
Bachelor's degree and strong written communication skills required.
Benefits include full healthcare coverage, 401K with company match, dental and vision, parental leave, gym membership subsidy, remote stipend, and annual team offsite.

Product Engineer Full Description

SchooLinks is a venture-backed ed-tech company that is changing how students explore and pursue their post-high school goals. We have a suite of over 80 tools for students and school staff including college application management, course planning, financial aid planning, personality assessments, college profiles, and many others.

We are looking for a Full-Stack Product Engineer who ships complete features autonomously. This role is for engineers who work AI-native: using tools like Claude to write specs, build, QA, document, and communicate their work across the organization.

Engineers in this role collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to validate direction, then own execution end-to-end. Strong candidates are comfortable with ambiguity, iterate quickly, and take responsibility for how their work lands with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams.

This role is for engineers based in Austin, Texas. We do not have the ability to sponsor H-1B Visas.

What you’ll do

• Own features end-to-end: write specs and plan with Claude, build, QA, write release notes, create product documentation, and socialize changes with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to align on solutions, then execute autonomously once direction is set

• Ship clean, readable, and maintainable full-stack code across our Django backend and React frontend

• Use AI tools as a core part of your workflow for planning, building, and delivering

• Iterate rapidly on solutions by proposing, testing, and refining ideas

• Write tests and address technical debt to elevate codebase quality

• Design and build solutions that scale to millions of users

• Review requirements and user stories and provide timely, meaningful feedback

• Participate in on-call rotations

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience with strong proficiency in Django, Django Rest Framework (DRF), and React

• Demonstrated ability to ship complete features autonomously, including writing your own specs

• AI-native work style: active use of AI tools such as Claude or Cursor for planning, coding, and documentation

• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to navigate unclear requirements and propose solutions

• Strong written communication skills for writing specs, release notes, and product documentation

• 3+ years of experience working with AWS

• 3+ years of experience working with SQL databases in production

• Experience building, supporting, and planning production systems

• Experience with asynchronous task management

Nice to have

Experience with the following technologies we use regularly:

• Celery

• Redis

Domain experience or interest in the following areas is a bonus:

• Educational data (SIS, Ed-Fi, One Roster)

• Workforce development and career exploration

• Predictive analytics around educational outcomes

Benefits

• 100% health care coverage

• 401K with company 2% matching

• Dental & Vision

• Parental Leave

• Subsidized gym membership

• Remote work stipend

• Annual team offsite

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