Job Title: Staff Software Engineer (AI / Fullstack)

Company Name: Hope Street Group

Job Url: https://wellfound.com/jobs/3971890-staff-software-engineer-ai-fullstack-founding-team

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Staff Software Engineer (AI / Fullstack) (Founding Team)
$180k – $225k • No equity
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Remote (
United States
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|5 years of exp
|Full Time
Posted: today• Recruiter recently active
Hires remotely in
United States
Remote Work Policy
Remote only

Company Location
United States
Visa Sponsorship
Not Available

Preferred Timezones
Pacific Time
Collaboration Hours
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Relocation
Not Allowed
Skills
Information Security
Leadership
UI/UX Design
REST APIs
React.js
AWS
OAuth2 , Token Authentication , JWT(json Web Token)
Flutter
Supabase
ChatGPT
LLMs
About the job
Help build the technical foundation for an AI-powered platform helping students explore careers and imagine their futures.

About Hope Street Group
Hope Street Group is a mission-driven nonprofit building AI-powered tools that helps middle and high school students explore careers and plan their futures.

The Hope Street Platform is a series of ai enhanced classroom quests that create delight for both students and teachers.

We launched our platform in January and are now scaling toward 10,000+ classrooms.

Engineering at Hope Street Group works directly with product, curriculum, and school partners. We are a small team building technology that will directly shape how students explore careers nationwide.

The Role
We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join our founding engineering team.

This role is roughly:

~70% hands-on engineering
~30% architecture, mentorship, and technical leadership

You will work closely with our founding engineer and CTO to scale the Hope Street platform and build the systems that power AI-driven career exploration for students across the country.

This is the most senior individual contributor role on our engineering team. You will own systems, not just tickets.

What You’ll Work On
Backend & Infrastructure

Our backend stack includes AWS and Supabase.

You will help design and evolve systems including:

AWS Lambda functions and backend services
SQS-based processing pipelines
Supabase (PostgreSQL, RLS policies, Edge Functions, pgvector)
Data systems supporting career exploration and student interactions
Teacher App (React / TypeScript)

Our teacher dashboard helps educators manage classroom experiences.

You will:

Guide architecture and patterns across the React codebase
Review and mentor frontend development
Contribute directly to features and improvements
AI / LLM Systems

Hope Street uses AI to power career conversations and interactive learning.

You will help design and maintain:

Prompt systems for AI career professionals
Moderation and safety layers
Retrieval and context systems (RAG pipelines)
Infrastructure for scaling AI-powered interactions across schools
Student App (Flutter / Dart)

Hope Street’s student experience is built with Flutter for mobile and web.

You will help lead development of:

AI-powered student conversations with career professionals
The quest system that powers our interactive career experiences
The data layer and state management across platforms
Cross-platform deployment to iOS, Android, and web
What You Bring
Technical Experience

6+ years professional software engineering experience
Strong full-stack engineering skills
Experience with either React + TypeScript and Flutter/Dart
Real experience working with AWS infrastructure (Lambda, queues, IAM)
Experience building on Supabase and PostgreSQL
Experience building production AI/LLM features
Product Mindset

You understand tradeoffs between speed, scale, and maintainability
You’ve shipped entire platforms used by real users
You thrive in ambiguity and early stage growth
Engineering Leadership

Comfortable owning architecture decisions
Strong code review and mentoring habits
Strong collaborator with product, design, and non-technical partners
Nice to Have

Experience in education technology or K–12 systems
Mobile app deployment experience (iOS or Android)
Experience designing RAG pipelines or LLM infrastructure
Experience working in early-stage startups or small engineering teams
What Success Looks Like
Within the first 6 months you will likely:

Ship major improvements to the Hope Street student experience
Strengthen the architecture of our backend platform
Help scale the system to support thousands of classrooms
Raise the bar for engineering quality and technical decision-making
Why Join
Build technology that directly impacts middle and high school students
Work on meaningful AI applications in education
Join a small team with real product ownership
Help shape the engineering culture of a growing platform
Collaborate closely with product, curriculum, and school partners
Our Values