Senior Full Stack Engineer – SmartCenter Modules
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Senior Full Stack Engineer building Python backend and web capabilities for Teaching Strategies’ early-childhood education platform. Improving SmartCenter modules used by child care centers, teachers, administrators, and families.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, test, and maintain full stack product capabilities across SmartCenter modules and shared platform workflows
- Develop backend services, APIs, task processing, and business logic primarily in Python
- Build and improve web application experiences using the existing frontend stack, focusing on usability, performance, accessibility, and maintainability
- Make informed decisions about technical debt, refactoring, sequencing, and tradeoffs
- Partner with product, design, QA, customer-facing teams, and non-technical stakeholders to shape solutions
- Translate HIPAA, CCPA, and other regulatory requirements into engineering controls and implementation plans
- Use AI-assisted development throughout requirements analysis, planning, implementation, testing, debugging, code review preparation, documentation, and release readiness
- Apply CLI-based prompt and guided AI workflows and fully agentic flows where appropriate
- Help define and improve team practices for effective, responsible AI use
- Consult architecture, design, security, infrastructure, and domain experts as needed
- Improve quality and reliability through automated tests, monitoring, careful rollouts, and handling of privacy, security, compliance, and data-integrity edge cases
- Build cross-product and cross-service technical knowledge for clean platform integrations
- Participate in planning, estimation, incident response, production support, and continuous improvement
Requirements:
- 5-15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated senior-level contributions to enterprise product or service areas
- Strong Python backend development experience, including API design, domain modeling, data validation, error handling and testing
- Experience building and maintaining web applications with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and modern or legacy frontend frameworks; comfort working in an established frontend codebase
- Experience building or maintaining modular enterprise applications that support multiple business and operational workflows
- Experience with AI-assisted software development is preferred, including prompt-driven implementation, AI-supported testing/debugging, code review preparation, documentation workflows, or agentic development tools
- Interest in working in an AI-first engineering culture, with the curiosity and discipline to help the team evolve responsible, effective AI practices
- Practical understanding of relational or NoSQL data modeling, transactional behavior, asynchronous processing, queues, and idempotent workflow design
- Strong judgment around authorization, regulatory compliance, privacy, data integrity, and operational risk, especially for systems that handle sensitive information about children, families and child care centers
- Ability to reason through existing systems, identify the right integration points, and deliver improvements without unnecessary rewrites
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate, review code constructively, and raise the technical quality of a team
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical team members
- Strong bias for pragmatic execution: able to move work forward while keeping quality, maintainability, and customer impact in view
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform, App Engine and/or Flask is a plus
- Interest in early childhood education, child care center operations, and building software that supports teachers, administrators, and families
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation package
- Employee Equity Appreciation Program
- Health and wellness insurance benefits
- 401k with employer match
- Flexible work environment
- Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth
- Best in class technology equipment for every employee
- Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field
- Flexible work schedules
- Opportunities to engage with co-workers
- Access to career advancement and professional development opportunities

















