Senior Backend Engineer

Edia is a Series A technology startup revolutionizing K-12 education with AI-driven solutions. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help scale their Node.js applications on AWS and to guide AI coding assistants in implementing large-scale changes and new features.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and oversee backend systems across our product lineup and internal tooling
• Guide AI coding assistants to implement large-scale changes and new features
• Review, debug, and refine AI-generated code to production standards
• Use AI internally to automate business operations
• Ship full-stack features end-to-end

Requirements:

• Fast at reading code, human or AI generated
• Strong debugging skills and an eye for bugs
• Capacity to envision large architectural changes and break them into steps an AI can execute
• Ability to context switch and juggle multiple in flight tasks
• Experience with Node.js and cloud infrastructure (AWS, containers, managed databases)
• Comfort working across multiple codebases and problem domains
• You think at systems scale
• You're effective at communicating intent to AI tools and iterating on their output
• You have good judgment about when to accept AI suggestions and when to push back
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and can take ownership of loosely-defined problems
• Frontend experience (React)—you'll be reading it regardless
• Startup experience