Senior Software Engineer (Argentina and Brazil Only)

Niche•Pittsburgh, PA

6d•Remote

About The Position

Niche is the leader in school search. Our mission is to make researching and enrolling in schools easy, transparent, and free. With in-depth profiles on every school and college in America, 140 million reviews and ratings, and powerful search tools, we help millions of people find the right school for them. We also help thousands of schools recruit more best-fit students, by highlighting what makes them great and making it easier to visit and apply. Niche is all about finding where you belong, and that mission inspires how we operate every day. We want Niche to be a place where people truly enjoy working and can thrive professionally. We are currently recruiting for this role in Argentina and Brazil only. We will not be considering US based candidates at this time. All interviews are being held remotely. If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know. Only applications/resumes written in English will be accepted. We are looking for a driven, resourceful, and experienced Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong frontend focus to join one of our growing product teams. You will take a leading role in designing and building high-quality, user-facing features and interfaces that power our platform, with a strong focus on reliability, maintainability, scalability, and user experience. As a senior member of the team, you will be expected to make thoughtful decisions around frontend architecture, component design, performance, and maintainability, while collaborating closely with product designers and backend engineers to deliver cohesive, end-to-end solutions. You’ll contribute across the stack as needed, but your primary impact will come from elevating the quality, consistency, and scalability of our frontend applications.

Requirements

3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience building user-facing applications
Strong experience with TypeScript and React, including complex, production-grade frontend applications
Experience designing reusable component systems and contributing to shared UI patterns or design systems
Solid understanding of modern frontend best practices (state management, performance optimization, accessibility)
Experience with Go or strong willingness to ramp up quickly
Experience with relational databases (Postgres preferred)
Experience testing frontend code using unit and integration testing frameworks
Experience incorporating AI agents and LLM tooling into daily development workflows

Nice To Haves

Experience using Storybook or similar tools for component-driven development is a plus

Responsibilities

Learn about Niche by meeting with various team members to learn more about our company through our Onboarding meetings
Pair with other engineers to learn more about our tech stack, the products we support, and our development standards and processes
Familiarize yourself with our automated testing platforms and begin to contribute to our test coverage
Collaborate with product team members to implement and ship small features and functionality
Participate in code reviews and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback to other engineers
Gain exposure to the platform’s underlying infrastructure and deployment processes
Understand the high-level architecture of the website and back-end services
Begin shipping more complex user-facing code
Grow as a contributing member of a product team, providing input and insight to the rest of the team on challenges and feasibility of proposed development
Confidently implement new functionality and fix bugs across our stack
Partner closely with design and product to shape frontend solutions, proactively identifying UX and technical tradeoffs
Work with members of the tech and product teams to distill user stories or business requirements into technical requirements/design
Begin identifying areas for improvement in our codebase, researching best practices, and making recommendations to the team on strategies to address them
Solidify understanding of the breadth of our tech stack, including underlying infrastructure, internal tools, front end applications, and how they interact with our back-end services
Be a subject matter expert for the product team’s areas of responsibility