Contractor: Senior Software Engineer

Why You'll Love This Role: We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Newsela What You'll Be Doing: • Deliver high-quality work on time, leveraging AI tools to accelerate velocity without sacrificing craft. • Own feature delivery end-to-end, from scoping and design input through implementation and release, with minimal oversight. • Craft well-tested software that meets a high bar for quality, using AI-assisted development practices where they add value and exercising judgment where they don't. • Build and validate AI-integrated features with sound engineering judgment, applying appropriate evaluation practices to LLM-powered and AI-assisted functionality. • Partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, and Product Design to refine ambiguous work into clearly defined, valuable deliverables. • Maintain reliable systems by applying best practices for observability, quality, and incident response, and actively use AI tooling to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster. • Support production releases, ensuring your team's systems are deployment-ready and stable post-release. About You: • 5+ years building production web applications, with a strong full-stack range (modern React/TypeScript frontends and a typed or Pythonic backend). • Track record of owning ambiguous problems end-to-end and shipping with measurable impact. • Substantive code review history - examples of catching architectural issues. • Active daily use of AI coding agents (Claude Code or similar) with a clear point of view on where they help, where they hurt, and how to keep their output reviewable. • Comfort with production debugging across the stack: traces, logs, profiling, the unglamorous parts. • Strong async written communication: clear PR descriptions, Slack comms, and specifications. Why you’ll love working at Newsela: • Make A Difference: No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers. About Newsela: Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner. All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check as part of our pre-employment process. #LI-Remote