Product Engineer

SchooLinks•Austin, TX

8d•Onsite

About The Position

SchooLinks is a venture-backed ed-tech company that is changing how students explore and pursue their post-high school goals. We have a suite of over 80 tools for students and school staff including college application management, course planning, financial aid planning, personality assessments, college profiles, and many others. We are looking for a Full-Stack Product Engineer who ships complete features autonomously. This role is for engineers who work AI-native: using tools like Claude to write specs, build, QA, document, and communicate their work across the organization. Engineers in this role collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to validate direction, then own execution end-to-end. Strong candidates are comfortable with ambiguity, iterate quickly, and take responsibility for how their work lands with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams. This role is for engineers based in Austin, Texas. We do not have the ability to sponsor H-1B Visas.

Requirements

5+ years of full-stack engineering experience with strong proficiency in Django, Django Rest Framework (DRF), and React
Demonstrated ability to ship complete features autonomously, including writing your own specs
AI-native work style: active use of AI tools such as Claude or Cursor for planning, coding, and documentation
Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to navigate unclear requirements and propose solutions
Strong written communication skills for writing specs, release notes, and product documentation
3+ years of experience working with AWS
3+ years of experience working with SQL databases in production
Experience building, supporting, and planning production systems
Experience with asynchronous task management

Nice To Haves

Experience with Celery
Experience with Redis
Domain experience or interest in educational data (SIS, Ed-Fi, One Roster)
Domain experience or interest in workforce development and career exploration
Domain experience or interest in predictive analytics around educational outcomes

Responsibilities

Own features end-to-end: write specs and plan with Claude, build, QA, write release notes, create product documentation, and socialize changes with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams
Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to align on solutions, then execute autonomously once direction is set
Ship clean, readable, and maintainable full-stack code across our Django backend and React frontend
Use AI tools as a core part of your workflow for planning, building, and delivering
Iterate rapidly on solutions by proposing, testing, and refining ideas
Write tests and address technical debt to elevate codebase quality
Design and build solutions that scale to millions of users
Review requirements and user stories and provide timely, meaningful feedback
Participate in on-call rotations