Backend engineer for educational platforms

LearnWise AI is an AI-first scale-up building virtual assistants, instructor efficiency tools, and student engagement solutions for universities and colleges. We're a small team moving fast: the best idea wins no matter who says it, and every hire owns real scope from day one.

• Build new product features Extend our existing products with new capabilities, from design and data model to API and production rollout, together with Product and Design.
• Integrate institutional systems LMS, CRM (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics) and SIS data through a reusable integration framework, including writeback.
• Evolve the multi-tenant platform Organization hierarchies, granular role-based permissions, shared organization-level resources, and safe customization inside the LMS.
• Scale efficiently across regions and peaks Keep data and monitoring in-region across EU, US, CA, AU and UK, prepare for 10x term-start traffic spikes, and cut infrastructure and AI costs.
• Lead new initiatives Occasionally take technical leadership of a new initiative, coordinating the work of 2-3 engineers.

• 6+ years as a software engineer building and running production backend services.
• Production experience in more than one backend language (e.g., Python, PHP, Go, Java, TypeScript/Node, C#).
• Working Python knowledge and interest in learning async Python.
• Hands-on system integrations: third-party APIs, OAuth flows, webhooks, data sync, retries, and rate limits.
• Production ownership: logs, metrics, tracing, alerts; you debug live issues across services and third parties.
• Clear, direct written and spoken English; you raise blockers early.
• Daily use of AI coding tools, e.g., Codex or Claude, and you verify what they produce.
• Architecture design of services, data models, and service boundaries that others built on.
• Technical leadership: led development of a system across at least 2-3 engineers.
• Будет плюсом: Our stack: Python, FastAPI, MongoDB, AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions; LMS integrations: LTI 1.3, Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard, Moodle; Data residency and multi-region systems (GDPR, FERPA); Laravel/PHP experience; Exposure to LLM-powered products, agents, or tool-calling; Authentication and authorization in practice: SSO, OAuth/OIDC, JWTs, RBAC, multi-tenant access control

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