Synthesis Tutor

Full Stack Software Engineer

Software Engineering, Full-time, Remote

Synthesis is making a statement in education by building a superhuman math tutor.

We’re looking for a full-stack software engineer near the beginning of their career to join the Tutor team. Specifically, you’ll be responsible for building valuable internal tooling to help us better understand and service key facets of our product and business, including financial and product dashboards, admin tools to manage accounts and subscriptions, etc. This position requires a high degree resourcefulness, patience and flexibility. You’ll dive deep into how we currently work and help us optimize it as you grow into your role. We expect a broad set of skills — both interpersonal skills and technical skills. For this role we’re looking for someone with demonstrable experience working in fast-paced, growth-mode environments creating interactive products and applications.

Check out an example lesson in the Synthesis Tutor here.

Why is building Synthesis Tutor special:

We are building the world’s best Tutor. We create deep, meaningful learning experiences that accelerate math learning for kids.
We are a fast-moving team. We launch new concepts rapidly and iterate quickly.
Witnessing our students’ attitude towards math transform within a few tutor sessions is an absolute joy.

What you'll do:

As an internal tools engineer at Synthesis, you will be instrumental in building internal tooling to help us better understand and manage our growing customer base. Your role will include:

Developing internal admin/customer support tools using Next.js (React), Tailwind, tRPC, and Prisma.
Querying, manipulating, and displaying data in intuitive dashboards for stakeholders to better understand the usage of our product.
Build additional data pipelines as business needs arise.

Technical Skill Requirements**:**

Comfortable with functional React/Nextjs, CSS (Tailwind), SQL, Typescript, and git
Ability to design and build visually appealing and intuitive experiences.

Soft Skill Requirements**:**

This role will require you to develop a deep understanding of and empathy for our customer happiness team, financial team, product team, CEO, and other internal stakeholders. You’ll be working closely with all of them on a daily basis.
Ideas at Synthesis are always open to criticism from anyone, in any role. We welcome this. The best ideas are born out of [sometimes harsh] conjecture and criticism. You’ll need to have thick skin.
We’re pushing the boundaries in many areas. You’ll need to be resourceful.
We have two customers: the children using the Tutor and their parents. Understanding the needs of both is critical to building a winning product.

Benefits

Compensation & Benefits

Purely remote team, US Timezone aligned
$80-120k depending on experience
Meaningful equity (including optional early exercise)
100% covered health insurance for you & your dependents (including medical, dental, vision)
401(k) plan with company matching
Flexible time off
Flexible parental leave
Some benefits (such as medical and 401k) apply to US employees only.

If you are interested in this position, please apply with your resume and explain a specific technical challenge you’ve personally faced and how you solved it. Include a link to the product and/or code if you can.

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