Sr. Software Engineer (Full-Stack, Frontend-Leaning)

TechSmart•Seattle, WA

1d•$120,000 - $140,000

About The Position

TechSmart is building a new AI-powered learning platform from the ground up to support modern curriculum delivery, instructional workflows, and data-driven insights for high schools and CTE programs. This work is early, foundational, and highly collaborative. The focus is on building durable, maintainable systems simultaneously with features. Engineers at TechSmart work closely with Product and UX Design partners to shape how the platform evolves. You’ll have meaningful input into technical direction, system boundaries, and tradeoffs, with the opportunity to influence how educators and students experience the platform for years to come. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack, Frontend-Leaning) to play a key role in designing and building the core user interface and experience layers that power TechSmart’s AI-driven web-based learning platform. In this role, you will shape architecture and platform patterns while working closely with Product and Design partners as the platform scales. You will deliver both backend and frontend components, but have special expertise & desire to influence the frontend in particular. This is a hands-on senior engineering role focused on building durable systems and translating product vision into scalable UI. You will contribute to foundational technical decisions, help establish shared standards, and ensure the platform evolves predictably through sprint-based delivery. At TechSmart, “Senior” means owning systems end-to-end, influencing technical direction, designing thoughtfully before implementation, and having the skill to shape the largest kinds of requested feature areas and decompose them to incrementally & predictably deliverable steps that the team can swarm on. This role is well-suited for an experienced engineer who enjoys owning complex systems and working on greenfield products while still having access to mature supporting infrastructure. You’ll balance near-term product delivery with longer-term platform and design system investments, playing a critical role in shaping how educators and students experience the platform over time.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful influence over the direction and evolution of frontend systems in production web applications.
Strong experience building frontend applications using a reactive component-based framework such as Vue or equivalent, with special expertise in CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.
Comfortable contributing directly to backend development and collaborating with backend-leaning engineers when needed. Experience using a backend web framework such as Django or equivalent. Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or other gradually-typed backend language.
Experience collaborating closely with Product and UX partners to deliver high-quality user experiences.
Experience working in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or similar cloud-hosted environments.
Experience delivering work in sprint-based environments with a focus on quality and maintainability.
Strong sense of ownership, clear communication, and effective cross-functional collaboration.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable maintainable frontend architecture in Vue & Vite, a modern reactive frontend framework.
Design, drive, and evolve frontend systems, including application structure, state management, routing, data-fetching patterns, and shared utilities.
Implement the paired Django & Sanic backend components which power the frontend systems, collaborating with local backend specialists as needed.
Translate complex product workflows and requirements into intuitive, performant user interfaces aligned with the product roadmap.
Ensure frontend performance, reliability, and responsiveness in the context of real-world limited-bandwidth classroom environments.
Lead the creation and ongoing refinement of the platform’s visual design system, encompassing shared components, layout foundations, typography, and interaction patterns.
Partner closely with UX and Product Design to translate visual designs into reusable, accessible, and production-ready components.
Establish clear standards and guidelines for component usage, styling, and extension to promote frictionless & consistent usage by the engineering team.
Partner closely with Product, UX, and Engineering leadership to translate roadmap initiatives into well-scoped work aligned with sprint and release planning.
Contribute technical perspective during product discovery and roadmap planning, helping shape scope, sequencing, and feasibility.
Participate actively in sprint planning, backlog grooming, code & tech design reviews, and retrospectives.
Deliver iteratively with predictable velocity, balancing speed with long-term maintainability and quality.
Work closely with backend-leaning full-stack engineers (specializing in Django, Sanic, MySQL, and Amazon Web Services) when implementing features with especially complex backend requirements.
Partner with Product, UX, and Engineering leadership to ensure features meet acceptance criteria and real classroom needs.
Contribute to testing strategies (unit, integration, and end-to-end) to support confident iterative releases.
Provide thoughtful code reviews, mentor other engineers, and help raise engineering standards across the team.