Empowerly · Remote, United States
Skills: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, AWS, CI/CD
Empowerly (empowerly.com) personalizes college and career counseling with data-driven technology and former Admissions Officers. Our Empowerly Score™ is a predictive model that evaluates each student across academics, essays, and extracurriculars. We are a fully remote, venture-backed team, and this hire will shape what our platform looks like next.
About the Role Empowerly helps students and families navigate college admissions, pairing data-driven technology with counselors who are former Admissions Officers. As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will work closely with counselors, operations, and product partners to understand what slows them down, then build the software that fixes it, from React front-end to backend services, APIs, and AI features. A senior engineer will review your work and coach your decisions, and you will own real problems from your first month. We care more about what you have built and how you think than how many years you have been doing it. We hire for strong computer science fundamentals and the ability to go deep. When we ask how something works, we want you to be able to explain it all the way down.
What you'll do
Solve the real problem behind a request from counselors, operations, or product Ship tested, full-stack features end to end: React, backend services, APIs, and the database underneath Build and improve AI-powered features using LLMs and AI APIs, and check whether they help the people using them Turn ambiguous requests into a scoped plan and a working first version quickly, then iterate on feedback Debug production issues across the stack, with a senior engineer at first and on your own over time
What you'll bring
Experience shipping software that other people use, from a job, internship, freelance work, open source, or a substantial project of your own. We care about what you built and your role in it, not how long you have been doing it Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, networking, and how the w…
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