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Cambly

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

🇺🇸 Hybrid - San Francisco, CA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $160K - $190K

💻 Software Engineering

🗓️ June 24th, 2025

MongoDB NoSQL TypeScript

Edtech.com's Summary

Cambly is hiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer. The engineer will design, develop, and launch new user-facing features, lead improvements for the student and tutor experiences, optimize platform performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create a scalable frontend platform using NextJS, React, and TypeScript.

Highlights
  • Design, build, and launch new user-facing features.
  • Lead development of Cambly’s Student and Tutor experience improvements.
  • Optimize application performance for high-quality teaching and learning.
  • Collaborate with product managers and designers on user experience.
  • Maintain code quality through reviews, testing, and best practices.
  • Work on AI-driven classroom content and personalized post-lesson activities.
  • Required 5+ years full-stack development, 3+ years React experience.
  • Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB and production tools such as Lighthouse, Sentry, New Relic.
  • Compensation ranges from $160,000-$190,000 base salary plus pre-IPO stock options.
  • Focus on building impactful products to assist global English learners.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer Full Description

About Cambly: Our mission is to bring high-quality English education to every English learner in the world at the touch of a button. Think of us as the Airbnb that matches English students with English tutors. Come help us build the world’s largest English learning marketplace and school.

We're looking for a talented Senior Frontend Engineer who is passionate about changing the way people learn English. As an FE Engineer @ Cambly, you'll be part of a fast-moving engineering team of ~15 engineers. You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver high-performance features while maintaining a robust, scalable codebase. You'll be a key contributor to most feature work and have significant ownership over our entire Frontend platform.

Our app is built on NextJS // React // TypeScript.

Come help us:
  • Conceive, design, build, and launch new user-facing features
  • Lead development of new features and improvements for Cambly’s Student and Tutor experience.
  • Optimize performance and ensure a smooth, high-quality teaching & learning experience.
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to build product experiences that help students find the perfect tutor, create a learning plan, and build their English Fluency.
  • Maintain a high code quality product through code reviews, testing, and best practices.

Work on projects like:
  • Building a tutor discovery experience that is fun, engaging, and effective at connecting students with the perfect tutor
  • Creating a classroom experience where lesson content is generated by AI to be tailored to the learner's needs
  • Building post-lesson activities that are curated to fit each learner's areas for improvement

About you:
  • 5+ years of full-stack development experience
    • 3+ years of experience with React
  • Experience working with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
  • Experience building and maintaining production systems using tools like Lighthouse, Sentry, New Relic, etc.
  • Good understanding of frontend technologies, patterns, and best practices.
  • Good understanding of backend systems, patterns, and best practices.
  • Passion for building products that have a real impact on users.

Life @Cambly includes...
  • $60M VC backed - check out why Bessemer invested in us
  • Hybrid First Company (Office days: M, T, & Th)
  • Daily catered lunch
  • 100% of Medical, Dental, and Vision paid along with matching 401k (up to 4%)
  • Maternity and Paternity Paid Leave
  • 20 days of PTO
  • 9 days of sick leave
  • 10 company holidays plus end-of-year shutdown
  • Work from anywhere in the world for two weeks
  • Helping others around the world unlock economic opportunities by learning English

This role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the expected base salary range for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.

Compensation Package
$160,000-$190,000 USD Base Salary + Pre-IPO Stock Options

Also:
We are proud to be a highly inclusive company and an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We believe in order to thrive, businesses need a diverse team and leadership. We welcome every background, identity, abilities, and mindset to join us on our mission to make high-quality English education for all. Everyone is welcome here.