Founding Engineer, EdTechNew York, NY
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- Work style
- Onsite
- Salary
- $140k–$220k
- Stage
- Seed
- Industry
- Education
- Visa sponsorship
- Limited
- Employment
- Full-time
The opportunity
The first full-time engineer at a K-12 company that helps schools keep phones out of class and logs attendance in the same tap. You build agent-driven integrations with legacy school systems, harden the mobile app and architect the backend with the CTO.
A seed-stage New York company whose classroom tap-in system puts student phones into a school-chosen restricted mode and records attendance in one step, then writes that attendance back to the school's records system. It has grown to dozens of districts in under a year on a very small team.
What you will do
- Build browser-agent and automation systems that write attendance back to legacy student information systems with no public APIs
- Make district onboarding take days instead of weeks
- Build and harden the Flutter app for iOS and Android, including network-level focus modes and single-app lockdown
- Architect systems, infrastructure and data with the CTO on Firebase, Express on Cloud Run, Cloud Tasks and Next.js
- Talk with principals, teachers and IT directors, and own whole product areas end to end
What you bring
- Roughly 1 to 5 years shipping production software end to end
- Strong backend architecture and system design, including messy multi-source data, race conditions and async work
- A reliability mindset: uptime, monitoring and graceful failure
- Fast learning of new frameworks
- Clear thinking and communication on the spot
- Comfort with very direct feedback
- Willingness to work in person in New York, about six long days a week during busy school periods, with visits to schools
Nice to have
- K-12 or student information system experience
- iOS or Android system-level APIs
- Browser automation or agent work
- Hackathon wins or shipped personal projects
Pay and benefits
- Salary range: $140,000 to $220,000 per year. This is the range the client expects to pay in good faith. The final amount depends on experience and other job-related factors.
- Comprehensive benefits
Where you will work
The team is based in New York, NY, and works onsite. We can talk about what that looks like for you.
This role has limited visa sponsorship. We will confirm what is possible for your situation.
Why is the company hidden? Our clients hire quietly. V6 shares the name once we have spoken and you are ready.
How we hire
- ApplyTwo minutes. A resume or pasted text, plus a few lines on why you fit.
- V6 screenA practitioner reviews your application and aims to reply in one to two business days.
- First conversationWith the CEO, on motivation and communication
- Live technicalA scoped system-design problem talked through out loud, likely no coding
- Paid work trialDay one an architecture problem and a feature build; day two fixing real customer bugs
Interview steps are set by the client and may change. V6 does not control the client's process, but we advocate for every candidate at each stage.
About this listing
V6 posts this role on behalf of a client company, which makes the hiring decision. Role details, salary range and benefits come from the client and may change or close without notice. A listing is not an offer of employment, and applying does not create an employment, agency or contractual relationship with V6 or the client. Candidates never pay V6 any fee.
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