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MasteryPrep

Backend Product Engineer

Baton Rouge, LA · On-site +1

$130K - $140K/yr

Backend Product Engineer Department: Product Employment Type: Full Time Location ... Remote - USA Description MasteryPrep helps students succeed on the ACT, SAT, TSIA, WorkKeys, and ...

MasteryPrep

Backend Product Engineer

Baton Rouge, LA · Remote

Description MasteryPrep helps students succeed on the ACT, SAT, TSIA, WorkKeys, and other high ... We're looking for a Backend Product Engineer to own the data and backend systems that power those ...

MasteryPrep LLC

$130K - $140K/yr

Backend Product Engineer Department: Product Employment Type: Full Time Location ... Remote - USA DescriptionMasteryPrep helps students succeed on the ACT, SAT, TSIA, WorkKeys, and ...

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Quizlet, Inc

Sr Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$167K - $219K/yr

S. high school students and half of college students, powering over 1 billion learning interactions ... We're looking for a Backend Engineer who can own this end-to-end: from data ingestion and ...

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Senior Backend Engineer

Austin, TX · On-site +1

Patio is the private community for college: we make it easy for college students and incoming ... As the senior backend and infrastructure engineer, you will provide insight into how we can ...

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Senior Backend Engineer

Austin, TX · Remote

$130K - $180K/yr

Patio is the private community for college: we make it easy for college students and incoming ... As the senior backend and infrastructure engineer, you will provide insight into how we can ...

Zūm

CA

$240K - $280K/yr

In the $50 billion student mobility market - the largest segment of the mass mobility industry ... Work with 2-4 backend developers to deliver high-quality product features Introduce tools and ...

Zám

Staff Engineer, Backend Platform

Redwood City, CA · On-site

$240K - $280K/yr

In the $50 billion student mobility market - the largest segment of the mass mobility industry ... Work with 2-4 backend developers to deliver high-quality product features Introduce tools and ...

Zūm

Staff Engineer, Backend Platform

Redwood City, CA · On-site +1

$240K - $280K/yr

In the $50 billion student mobility market - the largest segment of the mass mobility industry ... Work with 2-4 backend developers to deliver high-quality product features Introduce tools and ...

Straia

Senior Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Remote

$200K - $225K/yr

... from student advising to admissions to budgeting and resource planning, is supported by ... Backend: Node.js + Express, orchestrating data and AI agent workflows * Data Layer: Postgres ...

Straia, Inc

Senior Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$200K - $225K/yr

... from student advising to admissions to budgeting and resource planning, is supported by ... Backend: Node.js + Express, orchestrating data and AI agent workflows * Data Layer: Postgres ...

Mercor

Software Engineer, Backend

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$200K - $500K/yr

Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by ... About the Role As a Member of Technical Staff of talent experience, you'll own the shared backend ...

Svix

Rust Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$130K - $180K/yr

About the Role We are looking for a top performing backend engineer that loves coding with Rust ... All roles are full-time - no students or part-time.

Blue Crew

Backend Developer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

The work itself is super rewarding as we employ people in need with thousands of jobs (Veterans, Students, single mothers and fathers). We have an awesome team of 11 and are looking to add a backend ...

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Backend Product Engineer

Baton Rouge, LA • On-site, Remote

MasteryPrep
Education Programs Administration • 51 - 200 employees
Learn more about MasteryPrepexternal

$130K - $140K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 7 days ago

Job description

Backend Product Engineer
Department: Product
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Remote - USA
Description
MasteryPrep helps students succeed on the ACT, SAT, TSIA, WorkKeys, and other high-stakes assessments. Our test delivery and learning platforms serve schools and students who count on them working every day. We're looking for a Backend Product Engineer to own the data and backend systems that power those products and platforms.
This is an AI-first role. We build with AI-native development practices - using AI coding tools as a core part of the daily workflow and designing systems with AI capabilities in mind from the start, not bolted on later. You should be excited about that way of working, not just tolerant of it.
You'll be building products, and responsible for all of our data and backend systems, and you'll work closely with our Site Reliability Engineer to manage and develop the environment - keeping it reliable, secure, and ready to scale.
What You'll Do
  • Own the design, development, and maintenance of our backend services and data systems that power our products.
  • Build and maintain APIs and services running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Manage our data layer across PostgreSQL, Firestore, and Firebase - including schema design, data integrity, migrations, and performance.
  • Practice AI-first development: use AI coding and development tools daily, and help shape how the team applies them.
  • Design backend systems that support AI-powered product features (for example, integrating LLM APIs and building the data pipelines that feed them).
  • Partner closely with our SRE to manage, monitor, and improve the environment - deployments, observability, incident response, and infrastructure decisions.
  • Safeguard the data of the schools and students we serve through sound security and privacy practices.
  • Write clear documentation and communicate technical decisions to both technical and non-technical teammates.
  • Cloud: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, Firestore
  • Platform services: Firebase
  • Language: TypeScript/Python
  • Workflow: AI-native development - AI tooling is a first-class part of how we build

What We're Looking For
  • 5+ years of professional backend development experience.

  • Strong technical skills and solid experience building and running production APIs and services.
  • Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) - schema design, queries, and performance tuning.
  • Experience with a major cloud platform; GCP experience is a requirement, as is Firebase/Firestore.
  • Genuine enthusiasm for AI-assisted development - you already use tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot and can speak to how they've changed the way you work.
  • Experience integrating AI/LLM APIs into applications, or a strong desire to build that skill quickly.
  • Comfort collaborating on infrastructure and reliability work - you don't need to be an SRE, but you should care about how your systems run in production.
  • Clear communication and the ability to work well with teammates across engineering, product, and support.
  • Experience in education technology or with assessment/testing platforms.
  • Familiarity with accessibility requirements (WCAG) and how they shape product decisions.
  • Experience with data migrations between environments (for example, staging to production).
  • Experience with observability tooling and incident response.

Benefits
  • $130,000 - $140,000 salary range
  • Employee benefits eligibility (health, disability, AD&D, life insurance).
  • Matching 401k
  • Paid time off
  • Generous paid holidays
  • Ability to work fully remote
  • Company supplied device/laptop

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