The Staff Engineer (AI-Native) will lead technical direction across front-end and back-end systems, shaping architecture, performance, reliability, and user experience for Nerdy's AI-powered learning platform. This role involves hands-on leadership, mentoring engineers, and driving scalable, secure-by-default, AI-integrated customer experiences across high-traffic systems.
What You'll Do
- Serve as the technical point of reference for the squad and broader engineering team, ensuring best practices in architecture, performance optimization, and accessibility standards are upheld.
- Lead the design and architectural discussions for systems, making pivotal decisions on frameworks, state management patterns, component architecture, and design systems.
- Advocate for and ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code. Conduct regular code reviews and provide mentorship to team members.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, provide technical insights, and ensure the timely delivery of features.
- Contribute to the engineering department's strategy and vision, bringing innovative ideas to improve our customer-facing experiences.
- Address complex technical challenges, innovate solutions, and optimize existing systems for scalability and performance.
- Mentor and develop team members, helping them to grow in their technical roles and careers.
- Leverage AI-native tools and approaches to improve development speed, product capabilities, and engineering effectiveness across the software lifecycle.
What We're Looking For
- Minimum of 10 years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and evolving complex, high-scale systems and customer-facing applications.
- Strong full-stack expertise, including domain in: Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript
- Strong full-stack expertise, including domain in: Backend: Javascript, Java, Golang
- Explicit mentoring of senior-level engineers regularly, leading to results.
- Significant experience in AWS-based cloud architecture environments.
- In-depth knowledge of modern software engineering practices, design patterns, and architectures.
- Experienced with AI-native tools that enhance productivity and speed (Cursor, Make.com, Supabase, Netlify, Claude Code, n8n, Firecrawl, ChatGPT, Grok, Bolt, Vercel, etc).
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience designing high-traffic web applications and scalable distributed services.
- Demonstrated experience in collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- A strong owner willing to roll up their sleeves. This role includes coding and reviewing the code of others.
- Ability to implement customer-facing solutions that solve the customers' true needs with exceptional user experiences.
Technical Stack
- JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Golang, AWS, Cursor, Make.com, Supabase, Netlify, Claude Code, n8n, Firecrawl, ChatGPT, Grok, Bolt, Vercel
Team & Environment
- AI-Native at every level
- Entrepreneurial velocity
- Free-market rigor
- Full-stack ownership
- Reward for contribution
- Relentless exploration
- Is Apolitical
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive USD Compensation: Enjoy a market-leading rate paid in U.S. dollars.
- 100% Remote (Home Country Only): Work from anywhere in your home country—no relocation required, no borders crossed.
- Flexible Time Off: Our flexible PTO lets you recharge on your own terms and when you need it the most.
- Local Holiday Pay: We honor your nation’s official holidays with paid time off—celebrate what matters to you.
- Continuous Learning: Get a free, all-inclusive learning membership for you and your household—including 1-on-1 tutoring hours, unlimited on-demand classes, and access to our full suite of learning products and services.
- Supercharge with AI: Gain exclusive access to cutting-edge AI tools that boost your productivity, making you feel almost super-human (cape not included).
- Feedback-Rich, Collaborative Culture: Tap into regular training, peer reviews, and a team that treats every team member as a vital collaborator and owner in our success.
- Make a Global Impact: Your expertise fuels an innovative platform used by learners around the world—be part of something transformative.
- Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. Pay rises with impact, not years.
Work Mode
- 100% Remote (Home Country Only): Work from anywhere in your home country—no relocation required, no borders crossed.
Nerdy is an apolitical company focused solely on helping people learn, and we achieve the most when united in this mission.
