Full Stack Software Engineer

About UsTuition.io is a well-funded startup based in San Mateo, California. Our mission is to help companies attract, retain and upskill top talent while making life better for employees through a wide range of education assistance benefits. Our products support employees through the full life cycle of education, including planning for the future costs of education, understanding and repaying their student loan debt, and leveraging employer education benefits to continue to progress their careers while helping to improve their financial wellbeing. The RoleOur business is growing fast and the demand for new products and services makes this a critical addition to our engineering team. You will work with a talented team of individuals delivering products and services that help millions of people over time, on an established platform built with TypeScript, Ember.js, Ruby, Rails, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, Python and more. This is the job for you, if …You have the right combination of the soft and hard skills needed in a role like this to keep development and operations hummingWriting and supporting code across the breadth and depth of that stack is something that drives your idea of ownership, including the tooling and environments the rest of the team depends onYou're careful with other people's money, and you understand why idempotency, an audit trail, and a reconciliation path matter more than clever code in a payment pathYou use AI coding agents daily and review their output harder than you'd review a colleague'sWorking within the frontier of tools and technology to solve business problems is a challenge you enjoyYou constantly challenge the status quo, iterating on the existing platform to make it better This is what you'll do …Build end-user facing functionality to fundamentally change human behavior towards greater financial literacyUse your experience designing and building great server side solutions that scale our business on our hybrid serverless and Kubernetes stackWork with the rest of the development team, product, and UX to shape what gets built, not just how it gets builtWork on the parts of the platform where a defect is someone's missed or mistaken paymentDevelop with the care that financial systems demand, designing idempotent operations, explicit error handling, and verifying functionality within a distributed systemIntegrate carefully with third-party financial providers, where a dropped or twice-processed event has real consequencesReview code critically for correctness, and the failure modes the tests may not cover What we are really looking for ...5+ years of experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer or similar3+ years of experience working in the Javascript/TypeScript ecosystem; Ember.js or another opinionated framework is a plusExperience working with multiple back-end languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Java)Solid understanding and experience doing Test Driven DevelopmentStrong background in relational database technologies, Postgres preferredExperience with systems where correctness has financial consequence, or a demonstrable instinct for that kind of careHands-on experience using AI coding agents in real work, the judgment to review their output rigorously, and the honesty to say when you haven't verified somethingProven track record of shipping quality software on time, and supporting it afterwardsGreat attitude towards solving problems and helping moving the ball forward with the teamAn excellent communicator with strong teamwork skillsGreat attention to detail BenefitsStudent Loan RepaymentHealth Coverage401(k) planLife InsuranceStock OptionsCommuter BenefitsGym Membership About Tuition.ioEstablished in 2012, Tuition.io has established itself as the leading service provider of education assistance benefits for large employers. We are well funded by leading venture investors and are growing rapidly. Please see https://www.tuition.io/about