Product Engineer

SchooLinks is a venture-backed ed-tech company that is changing how students explore and pursue their post-high school goals. We have a suite of over 80 tools for students and school staff including college application management, course planning, financial aid planning, personality assessments, college profiles, and many others.

We are looking for a Full-Stack Product Engineer who ships complete features autonomously. This role is for engineers who work AI-native: using tools like Claude to write specs, build, QA, document, and communicate their work across the organization.

Engineers in this role collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to validate direction, then own execution end-to-end. Strong candidates are comfortable with ambiguity, iterate quickly, and take responsibility for how their work lands with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams.

This role is for engineers based in Austin, Texas. We do not have the ability to sponsor H-1B Visas.

What youll do

Own features end-to-end: write specs and plan with Claude, build, QA, write release notes, create product documentation, and socialize changes with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams

Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to align on solutions, then execute autonomously once direction is set

Ship clean, readable, and maintainable full-stack code across our Django backend and React frontend

Use AI tools as a core part of your workflow for planning, building, and delivering

Iterate rapidly on solutions by proposing, testing, and refining ideas

Write tests and address technical debt to elevate codebase quality

Design and build solutions that scale to millions of users

Review requirements and user stories and provide timely, meaningful feedback

Participate in on-call rotations

Requirements

5+ years of full-stack engineering experience with strong proficiency in Django, Django Rest Framework (DRF), and React

Demonstrated ability to ship complete features autonomously, including writing your own specs

AI-native work style: active use of AI tools such as Claude or Cursor for planning, coding, and documentation

Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to navigate unclear requirements and propose solutions

Strong written communication skills for writing specs, release notes, and product documentation

3+ years of experience working with AWS

3+ years of experience working with SQL databases in production

Experience building, supporting, and planning production systems

Experience with asynchronous task management

Nice to have

Experience with the following technologies we use regularly:

Celery

Redis

Domain experience or interest in the following areas is a bonus:

Educational data (SIS, Ed-Fi, One Roster)

Workforce development and career exploration

Predictive analytics around educational outcomes

Benefits

100% health care coverage

401K with company 2% matching

Dental & Vision

Parental Leave

Subsidized gym membership

Remote work stipend

Annual team offsite