About Edia

Edia is a fast-growing Silicon Valley technology company that aims to reshape K-12 education. Over the last two years, Edia has grown to 40+ employees and is scaling quickly. Today, Edia supports 100+ districts across the country (e.g. New York City, Fulton County, Palm Beach, etc.) and builds breakthrough AI products to reduce chronic absenteeism, improve math outcomes, and more.

The Role

We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing engineering team and help scale our Node.js applications on AWS. You'll work across our product suite to build robust, scalable systems that serve educators and students nationwide.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain efficient and reliable backend systems.

• Integrate with clients' systems in robust and fault tolerant ways.

• Debug and resolve performance bottlenecks.

• Collaborate with frontend developers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend development, with at least 3 years working with Node.js.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (containers, pub/sub, managed DBs).

• Experience building and scaling applications.

• Knowledge of API design and development.

• Strong problem-solving abilities and capacity to manage complex systems.

Nice to Have

• AI/ML implementation in production environments.

• Programming language implementation / Computer algebra experience.

What Sets You Apart

• High agency with good taste.

• Problem-solving ability.

• Comfort with complexity.

Why Join Us

• Opportunity to build software that makes a meaningful impact in education.

• We're a fast-growing company, well funded, and with ambitious growth plans.

• High-ownership engineering culture.

• Competitive salary and equity package.