Clever
Software Engineer, Classroom Experience
🇺🇸 Hybrid - San Francisco, CA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $126K - $148K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ October 22nd, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Develop user interfaces and backend features for educational platforms such as Clever Portal and Clever Parents.
- Collaborate with product, design, and marketing teams to deliver engaging solutions for educators and students.
- Work with a technology stack including Go, Node.js, TypeScript, React, DynamoDB, MongoDB, and AWS.
- Participate in on-call rotation to support customer-facing systems and respond to incidents.
- Minimum 2 years experience as a full-stack software engineer; experience with React and Go is beneficial but not required.
- Lead small projects and architect solutions aligned with product goals.
- Strong foundation in computer science and software engineering principles required.
- Committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment.
- Compensation ranges from $114,000 to $148,000 depending on location and expertise.
- Benefits include flexible PTO, paid parental leave, comprehensive healthcare, mental health services, personal development budget, and company events.
Software Engineer, Classroom Experience Full Description
Clever is on a mission to connect every student, worldwide, to a world of learning. With our identity platform for education, we serve 77% of U.S. schools and over 1 million K12 students internationally. As a trusted partner for schools and educators, we provide secure, seamless access to digital learning tools that empower students everywhere. Clever, a Kahoot! Company, is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, but our impact extends far beyond. Learn more about us at www.clever.com.
As an engineer on the Classroom Experience team, you will work towards enabling simple, secure connections to meaningful classroom resources. This includes: our Clever Portal - which allows students, staff, and teachers to access their resources day to day as well as classroom management tools for teachers, Clever Parents - our web application that supports learning in the home, and future explorations of how we might give access to Clever resources outside of our products. On the Classroom Experience team, we build interfaces that millions of students and teachers use daily to enable learning.
A DAY IN THE LIFE:
- Collaborate with product management, design, and marketing teams to research, design, and code major new features and enhancements that will best engage, educate, and delight educators
- Develop and lead new features spanning fast and intuitive UIs, Go Microservices, and rest APIs to give users access to their resources and other classroom management tools.
- Be an important part of Cleverâs ecosystem of engineering excellence as we strive to create both the best possible customer experiences and top quality internal architecture across all of our products and initiatives
- Understand and prioritize the Clever engineering culture - see our blog post on Defining Cleverâs Engineering Culture
- Participate in team on-call rotation. Shifts are one full week every ~8 weeks. Primarily working during business hours to respond to customer requests, but may require off hours incident responses.
- Work across the stack - Clever has a microservice container-based architecture and is hosted entirely on AWS. We use Go for backend services, with Node, TypeScript, and React for frontend services and DynamoDB, Mongo, and S3 for databases and storage
WHAT WEâRE LOOKING FOR:
- 2+ years of experience as a full-stack Software Engineer
- Experience with a major frontend framework like React is useful, but not required
- Experience with Golang and REST APIs is useful but not require
- Led small projects and collaborated with a team to create meaningful impact
- Architected solutions to solve for product needs
- Strong fundamentals in computer science and software engineering
- Commitment to inclusion and belonging: Clever believes that the classrooms we serve and our companyâs halls should be spaces that are diverse and inclusive. We seek opportunities and celebrate actions that further allow us to build diverse teams, include every voice, and create a safe space for everyone to bring their authentic selves into the workplace.
CLEVER BENEFITS AND PERKS:
- A competitive salary
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- Top-notch healthcare, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
- Best-in-class mental healthcare service that supports employees' mental and emotional wellness
- A generous personal development yearly budget which can be used for courses, conferences, trainings, books, and more
- A comprehensive Learning & Development program that enables employees to enhance their skills, knowledge, and functional expertise
- Annual company and team events to connect with fun, bright coworkers
SALARY TRANSPARENCY:
The range of our base salary cash compensation for this role for candidates living in the United States, besides NYC and San Francisco, CA, is between $114,000 - $135,000. For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco, CA is between $126,000 - $148,000. All final offers are determined using multiple factors including experience and level of expertise.
Clever does not conduct interviews via text or Telegram. We will never ask for your financial information or reimbursement of equipment of any kind. If you receive any communications regarding employment with Clever that you think might be a scam, please email recruitingscam@clever.com.
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