Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Timely Schools — AI-powered school scheduling · ~63 employees · $7M raised

Remote — USA (New York or Boston preferred)Full-time · Remote$150K – $200K + equity

About the role

Timely Schools is an education technology company transforming how schools build master schedules for teachers and students. Starting with two pilot districts four years ago, Timely now serves half a million students across 20+ states — with growth and renewal rates that lead the EdTech industry. Series A completed August 2025, led by Workshop Ventures and A Street ($7M raised).

80% of the company are former educators, including co-founder and CTO Faisal Anwar, who started as a math teacher. That shows up as a genuine culture of learning, mentorship, and care that runs across the whole team — engineering included, spread across multiple time zones internationally.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Platform with 3+ years of infrastructure and platform engineering experience to own cloud infrastructure, shared tooling, observability, auth systems, and CI/CD — improving engineering team productivity, system reliability, and development velocity.

Fully remote — USA. New York or Boston preferred. No visa sponsorship — US citizens or Green Card holders only.

What you will own

Identify, prioritise, design, and deliver platform solutions spanning cloud infrastructure, test infrastructure, shared product libraries, security practices, authentication, and CI/CD tooling
Take ownership of production availability — implement observability, recovery practices, and provide periodic on-call support
Work closely with engineering stakeholders to understand pain points and unlock opportunities for the team to deliver value quickly
Drive investigation and decision-making on key technology choices that impact how the team builds and maintains software
Lead critical platform projects end-to-end — defining scope, creating tickets, and managing delivery timelines
Uplevel the engineering team through documentation, presentations, design/code reviews, and mentoring
Design and develop full-stack solutions when necessary, including frontend work

Requirements

Must have3+ years of experience in infrastructure and platform engineering at a company past product-market fit — scaling an existing platform, not building from scratch

Must haveStrong backend programming in Python or equivalent — not just scripting or automation

Must haveAWS cloud infrastructure understanding and IaC experience (Terraform or equivalent)

Must haveExperience building platform services beyond CI/CD — auth systems, observability/telemetry, or async processing infrastructure

Must haveHas served as an internal platform team supporting other engineers — gathered needs, built shared tooling, removed bottlenecks

Must haveHas owned platform and architecture decisions — not just executed someone else's roadmap

Must haveUS citizen or Green Card holder — no visa sponsorship of any kind

Must haveBased in the USA — remote, New York or Boston preferred

Nice to havePrior work in EdTech or industries handling sensitive/regulated data (FERPA, HIPAA, PII)

Nice to haveExperience with data privacy and security practices in a compliance-driven environment (SOC2, FERPA, HIPAA)

Nice to haveExperience with message queues or workflow orchestration (e.g., RabbitMQ, Temporal, Celery)

Not a fitPure DevOps or SRE profile with no application-layer backend code experience

Not a fitOnly has startup greenfield experience — no experience refining and scaling an existing platform

Not a fitHas never owned platform or architecture decisions independently

Not a fitRequires visa sponsorship of any kind

We interview honestly against this list — if you meet most of the “Must have” rows, apply.

Compensation

Remote — USA (New York or Boston preferred)

Location

Full-time · Remote

Employment

$150K – $200K + equity

Compensation

Equity included

Equity

Role details

LocationRemote — USA (New York or Boston preferred)

EmploymentFull-time · Remote

Compensation$150K – $200K + equity

EquityEquity included

DepartmentEngineering

VisaNot open to any visas — US citizen or Green Card holder only

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