Senior Product Engineer

Just Right Reader

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About The Position

Just Right Reader is a forward-thinking curriculum provider committed to advancing literacy for students from Birth through 12th Grade. Our comprehensive resources are designed to support all learners, including upper-grade students requiring additional intervention to develop foundational skills. Grounded in the Science of Reading, our high-quality materials and tools equip educators with the support they need to accelerate achievement and foster lifelong readers.
Position Overview:
We are hiring a Senior Engineer to help build and operate the Just Right Reader platform across customer-facing products, internal tools, backend services, and data-driven workflows.
This individual contributor role is ideal for a strong product engineer with meaningful backend depth. You should be comfortable shipping in a modern TypeScript and Next.js environment while also working through API design, SQL-heavy workflows, third-party integrations, and production debugging.
This is not a narrowly scoped frontend role or a pure infrastructure role. It is a hands-on engineering role for someone who can move across the stack and help solve real operational problems in a workflow-heavy product environment.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a senior (or equivalent) full-stack/product engineer working on production-grade systems
• Deep proficiency in TypeScript
• Demonstrated success building and scaling applications using Next.js
• Solid backend engineering foundation, including API design, server-side logic, and troubleshooting in live environments
• Expertise in PostgreSQL and SQL, with a strong grasp of query optimization and data modeling principles
• Practical judgment in using ORMs, with the ability to leverage raw SQL when appropriate
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and navigating real-world edge cases and failure scenarios
• Familiarity with AWS services such as S3, SQS, Secrets Manager, ECS/Fargate, Lambda workflows, RDS, and DynamoDB
• Willingness to support internal tools and operational workflows as part of end-to-end ownership
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Prisma
• Background in building internal tools or operational systems
• Exposure to analytics, reporting features, or data products
• Working knowledge of infrastructure concepts, including Terraform
• Familiarity with platforms such as NetSuite, HubSpot, Shopify, Slack, or similar business systems
• Experience with Python

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain product features across frontend, backend, and database layers.
• Design and implement backend APIs and application workflows for both customer-facing and internal operational use cases.
• Improve internal tools used by operations, customer success, fulfillment, and related teams.
• Work across TypeScript application logic, SQL queries, reporting workflows, and integration code.
• Build and maintain integrations with external systems such as ERP, CRM, auth/identity, and fulfillment-related tools.
• Debug and resolve issues across application code, data, cloud services, and operational workflows.
• Contribute to reliable, maintainable systems that support a growing platform and a small, fast-moving team.

Benefits

• Mission-driven company focused on improving literacy and education outcomes.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment with opportunities for growth and development.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed