Staff Full Stack Engineer

Panorama Education

About The Position

As a Staff Full Stack Engineer on the Surveys squad, you’ll help lead the next phase of Panorama’s first and most foundational product. Surveys sit at the core of how districts understand student experience and well-being, and this role is about building on a strong foundation to unlock new capabilities, scale with confidence, and continuously improve how insight turns into action for educators. You will bring strong full-stack expertise, systems thinking, and product-minded engineering to complex, high-leverage problems. You’ll partner closely with product managers, designers, data science, and other engineers to deliver thoughtful, maintainable solutions that balance speed, quality, and long-term sustainability. In addition to hands-on development, you’ll serve as a technical leader within the squad and a mentor across the broader engineering organization. You’ll also help identify and support opportunities to apply AI and automation thoughtfully within survey workflows, reporting, and internal tooling to reduce manual effort and improve insight quality over time. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working on a mature, mission-critical system, strengthening foundations, and making improvements that unlock outsized impact for customers and internal teams.

Requirements

7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including work at the Senior or Staff level.
Strong full stack experience, with deep proficiency in Ruby on Rails and working knowledge of modern front-end frameworks (Vue.js preferred).
Experience working on large, long-lived products and evolving systems over time.
A product-oriented mindset and the ability to reason about tradeoffs between speed, quality, and sustainability.
A proven track record of mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership without formal authority.
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and design.
Comfort working with ambiguity and ownership over complex problem spaces.
Interest in applying AI thoughtfully to improve workflows, data quality, and product experiences, with a strong sense of when automation is and is not optimal.
Experience collaborating with data science or AI-focused teams, or hands-on experience integrating AI-powered capabilities into production systems.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain full stack features and systems that power Panorama’s Surveys product.
Lead complex technical initiatives that improve scalability, reliability, and performance of survey workflows and reporting, including selectively incorporating AI-assisted approaches where they add clear value.
Partner with Product and Design to translate customer needs into well-scoped, durable technical solutions.
Balance new feature development with ongoing investment in platform health, technical debt reduction, and operational excellence.
Ensure survey experiences are intuitive, accessible, and performant for educators and administrators.
Serve as a senior technical voice within the Surveys squad, helping guide architectural decisions and technical direction.
Mentor and support engineers across the team through pairing, code reviews, and technical guidance.
Raise the bar for engineering quality, testing practices, and maintainability.
Collaborate with other Staff and Principal engineers to align patterns and practices across Panorama’s technology organization.
Contribute to shared technical standards and help evolve Panorama’s engineering practices over time.
Work across the stack, with deep backend expertise in Ruby on Rails and comfort building and evolving front-end experiences in Vue.js.
Support data-intensive features, including survey administration, response collection, reporting, and insights.
Design, prototype, write, test, review, debug, deploy, and monitor production code.