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Cambly

Senior Full Stack Engineer

🇺🇸 Hybrid - San Francisco, CA 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $160K - $190K 💻 Software Engineering 🗓️ February 1st, 2026
SQL MongoDB TypeScript

Edtech.com's Summary

Cambly is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer. The role involves designing, building, and launching new user-facing features while leading development efforts to improve the student and tutor experience on Cambly's platform. The engineer will optimize performance, ensure code quality, and collaborate closely with product and design teams to create engaging educational experiences.

Highlights
  • Lead development of frontend and backend features for Cambly’s English learning platform.
  • Build user-facing applications using NextJS, React, and TypeScript; backend development with AWS, Flask, and MongoDB.
  • Optimize performance and enhance student and tutor interactions.
  • Maintain code quality through reviews, testing, and best practices.
  • Require 5+ years full-stack experience, including 3+ years with React.
  • Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB and production monitoring tools such as Lighthouse, Sentry, and New Relic.
  • Projects include tutor discovery, AI-generated lesson content, and customized post-lesson activities.
  • Compensation ranges from $160,000 to $190,000 base salary plus pre-IPO stock options.
  • Benefits include fully paid medical, dental, vision, 401k match, paid parental leave, PTO, sick leave, and flexible work arrangements.
  • Part of a venture-backed company focused on global English education accessible via an intuitive marketplace.

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 Full-Stack Engineer who is passionate about changing the way people learn English. As a Full-Stack 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 Frontend & Backend platform.

Our frontend app is built on NextJS // React // TypeScript. Our Backend is built on AWS // Flask // MongoDB.

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.