Contractor: Senior Software Engineer

Why You'll Love This Role: We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Newsela What You'll Be Doing: Deliver high-quality work on time, leveraging AI tools to accelerate velocity without sacrificing craft. Own feature delivery end-to-end, from scoping and design input through implementation and release, with minimal oversight. Craft well-tested software that meets a high bar for quality, using AI-assisted development practices where they add value and exercising judgment where they don't. Build and validate AI-integrated features with sound engineering judgment, applying appropriate evaluation practices to LLM-powered and AI-assisted functionality. Partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, and Product Design to refine ambiguous work into clearly defined, valuable deliverables. Maintain reliable systems by applying best practices for observability, quality, and incident response, and actively use AI tooling to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster. Support production releases, ensuring your team's systems are deployment-ready and stable post-release. About You: 5+ years building production web applications, with a strong full-stack range (modern React/TypeScript frontends and a typed or Pythonic backend). Track record of owning ambiguous problems end-to-end and shipping with measurable impact. Substantive code review history - examples of catching architectural issues. Active daily use of AI coding agents (Claude Code or similar) with a clear point of view on where they help, where they hurt, and how to keep their output reviewable. Comfort with production debugging across the stack: traces, logs, profiling, the unglamorous parts. Strong async written communication: clear PR descriptions, Slack comms, and specifications. Why you’ll love working at Newsela: Make A Difference: No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers.