Senior Full Stack Engineer--SmartCenter Modules (Remote)

Teaching Strategies is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to build and evolve SmartCenter systems used by child care centers. The role owns product and platform work from discovery through delivery, spanning Python backend services, web applications, integrations, and responsible AI-assisted engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, test, and maintain full stack product capabilities across a variety of SmartCenter modules and shared platform workflows, including center administration, family and child records, account management, reporting, operational tools, and integrations
• Develop backend services, APIs, task processing, and business logic primarily in Python, following existing application patterns for authorization, data access, transactions, deferred work, and service boundaries
• Build and improve web application experiences using the existing frontend stack, with attention to usability, performance, accessibility, and maintainable client-side code
• Make pragmatic, informed decisions about technical debt, refactoring, sequencing, and tradeoffs, especially in areas where privacy, security, regulatory compliance, data integrity, and customer trust matter
• Partner with product, design, QA, customer-facing teams, and non-technical stakeholders to shape solutions that are technically sound and aligned with center and family needs
• Translate HIPAA, CCPA, and other applicable government and regulatory requirements into practical engineering controls and implementation plans, including appropriate access controls, auditability, data handling, retention, and privacy safeguards
• Use AI-assisted development throughout the delivery lifecycle, including requirements analysis, technical planning, implementation, testing, debugging, code review preparation, documentation, and release readiness
• Apply CLI-based prompt and guided AI workflows, and use fully agentic flows where appropriate, while maintaining strong engineering judgment, security awareness, and accountability for the final output
• Help define, evaluate, and improve team practices for effective AI use, including where AI should accelerate work, where human review is essential, and how the team should share reusable prompts, workflows, and lessons learned
• Seek input from architecture, design, security, infrastructure, or specialized domain experts when needed, and incorporate that guidance into practical delivery plans
• Improve quality and reliability through automated tests, clear monitoring signals, careful rollout practices, and thoughtful handling of privacy, security, compliance, and data-integrity edge cases
• Build cross-product and cross-service technical knowledge so SmartCenter modules integrate cleanly with family engagement, center administration, account, admin, and other platform workflows
• Participate in team planning, estimation, incident response, production support, and continuous improvement of engineering practices

Requirements:

• 5-15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated senior-level contributions to enterprise product or service areas
• Strong Python backend development experience, including API design, domain modeling, data validation, error handling and testing
• Experience building and maintaining web applications with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and modern or legacy frontend frameworks; comfort working in an established frontend codebase
• Experience building or maintaining modular enterprise applications that support multiple business and operational workflows
• Interest in working in an AI-first engineering culture, with the curiosity and discipline to help the team evolve responsible, effective AI practices
• Practical understanding of relational or NoSQL data modeling, transactional behavior, asynchronous processing, queues, and idempotent workflow design
• Strong judgment around authorization, regulatory compliance, privacy, data integrity, and operational risk, especially for systems that handle sensitive information about children, families and child care centers
• Ability to reason through existing systems, identify the right integration points, and deliver improvements without unnecessary rewrites
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate, review code constructively, and raise the technical quality of a team
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical team members
• Strong bias for pragmatic execution: able to move work forward while keeping quality, maintainability, and customer impact in view
• Experience with AI-assisted software development is preferred, including prompt-driven implementation, AI-supported testing/debugging, code review preparation, documentation workflows, or agentic development tools
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, App Engine and/or Flask is a plus
• Interest in early childhood education, child care center operations, and building software that supports teachers, administrators, and families