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Senior Software Engineer, LearnWith.AI (Remote) - $100,000/year USD

Crossover

South Africa · On-site Full-time Senior 1w ago

About the role

This role is designed for exceptional engineers who excel at ownership, strategic thinking, and solving sophisticated technical problems. You will be responsible for building the product’s most critical features while defining its technical trajectory and maintaining its long‑term reliability and expansion. The technical choices you make will have a direct effect on both the product and its user base, granting you the freedom to innovate and the accountability to execute.

Products You’ll Contribute To Are Reshaping Education

• TeachTap: Uses AI to animate historical figures within a TikTok‑style learning platform.

• TeachTales: Captures student attention through customised, enchanting narratives that enhance understanding.

• TimeBack: Functions as a learning assistant that works alongside existing applications, actively guiding students.

• Athena: Employs AI‑created videos and assessments to produce quantifiable educational results.

Your role will be to steer the technical advancement of our offerings, guaranteeing they remain scalable, sustainable, and dependable over time. Working in close partnership with product stakeholders, you will convert broad requirements into concrete technical design decisions and navigate intricate challenges while upholding rigorous quality benchmarks. The impact of your decisions will define the product’s trajectory and affect how thousands of learners engage and develop.

We emphasize deliberate planning and design‑first thinking. Our AI‑driven methodology automates routine work, allowing you to concentrate on strategic decisions and meaningful problem‑solving. You will enjoy substantial autonomy and the capacity to shape product strategy while prioritising enduring stability and scalability.

If you are prepared to spearhead the technical transformation of our SaaS offerings and harness generative AI to explore new frontiers, we want to connect with you.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Feature Development: Architecting and building new capabilities with an emphasis on scalability, sustainability, and enduring product value.

• Requirement Engineering: Partnering with the product organisation to clarify requirements and guiding technical conversations to ensure features support product objectives.

• Operations and Maintenance: Overseeing and sustaining product reliability, optimizing performance, and anticipating and addressing potential issues.

• Technical Design: Executing high‑stakes technical choices that directly influence user satisfaction and product growth potential.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Jumping between transient projects or pursuing the latest technology fads.

• Contributing to internal IT infrastructure or contract‑based projects that lack tangible user outcomes.

• Spending time in unproductive meetings or managing monotonous infrastructure concerns.

Basic Requirements Senior Software Engineer Key Responsibilities

• At least 1 year of full‑stack development experience, working on front and back‑end features.

• At least 2 years as the primary technical contributor for a SaaS product, driving strategic technical decisions.

• At least 4 years of experience working on actual SaaS products, not outsourcing or internal IT projects.

• Experience in using generative AI in your day‑to‑day development work.

About LearnWith.AI LearnWith.AI is an edtech startup that leverages AI and subject matter experts to cultivate a new way of learning. Our unique approach leverages 50+ years of learning science, cutting‑edge data analytics and AI‑powered coaching. In doing so, we can help students learn more, learn faster, and learn better – and have fun while doing it. We are a remote‑first company that hires globally via Crossover.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with Us This is a full‑time (40 hours per week), long‑term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

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