Ingeniero de Software Senior - Escritura (Remoto, LATAM)

Se busca un Ingeniero de Software Senior para el equipo de Writing de Newsela, con experiencia en desarrollo full-stack y AI. El rol es remoto y requiere 5+ años de experiencia en aplicaciones web productivas.

Descripción del puesto

<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">About the Role</span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We're hiring a Contracted Senior Software Engineer for the Writing product team. This is a hands-on individual contributor role on a small, full-stack group building AI-powered learning experiences. The product is Newsela Writing: teachers create assignments, often built from Newsela's article library, and students draft essays in a rich-text editor that gives them real-time, rubric-aligned AI feedback - what they did well, what to improve, and what to try next, so they can revise before submitting, while teachers review the AI's grades. You'll ship across the product end-to-end, from the assignment-creation and editing flows and a rich editor, to the rubric models that define how writing is scored and the LLM-driven services behind it all, spanning frontend, backend, and data.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We work AI-native. Coding agents (Claude Code) are how this team builds, reviews, and operates, and we expect senior engineers to do more than use them. The strongest people on the team invest in the harness itself: writing skills, hooks, and custom workflows that make the next person faster.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">What We're Looking For</span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A senior IC with a high agency. Someone who:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Owns the full lifecycle. Takes a problem from vague ask to shipped, monitored, and stable in production. Comfortable shaping scope without heavy PM guidance.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Raises issues early. Catches risks, design drift, and brittle patterns before they reach production - in their own work and in review. Doesn't wait to be asked.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Picks up slack outside their lane. Steps into incidents, jumps into a teammate's PR queue, and drives an unowned problem when priorities shift.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Builds in the AI-native space with judgment. Uses agents as a daily driver, knows their failure modes, and pushes the team's practice forward - not just their own.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Drives delivery. Active in planning and grooming, pushes back on under-specified work, communicates trade-offs clearly to engineering and product partners.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Core Responsibilities</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ship full-stack features with measurable product impact.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Provide substantive code review, architectural feedback, not just approvals.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Serve as a first responder for production issues (within working hours): triage, root cause, and preventive measures recommendations.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Improve the team's engineering practice over time: tooling, agentic workflows, technical standards, and documentation that lives where work happens.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Translate product requirements into a technical approach and communicate the reasoning.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Required Experience</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">5+ years building production web applications, with a strong full-stack range (modern React/TypeScript frontends and a typed or Pythonic backend).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Track record of owning ambiguous problems end-to-end and shipping with measurable impact.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Substantive code review history - examples of catching architectural issues.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Comfort with production debugging across the stack: traces, logs, profiling, the unglamorous parts.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Strong async written communication: clear PR descriptions, sharp Slack, sharp specs.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Strong Plus</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience extending or building on agentic developer tooling (custom agents, skills, hooks, MCP servers, eval harnesses).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Background in rich text editing, document collaboration, or LLM-backed product features.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><em>All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check as part of our pre-employment process.</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.</em></span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>About Newsela:</strong></span></h3> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">#LI-Remote</span></p>

Responsabilidades

• Enviar características full-stack con impacto medible en el producto
• Proporcionar revisión de código sustantiva
• Atender problemas de producción
• Mejorar las prácticas de ingeniería del equipo

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