Staff Software Engineer

CodePath is the largest educator of college computer science students in the country. We've trained over 50,000 students from more than 1,000 universities. Our partners include Amazon, Google, and other leading technology companies. After nearly a decade of training technical talent, we launched a $150M initiative with Anthropic to prepare people for careers in AI.

We're expanding into new markets and growing our team as AI changes the workforce. People joining CodePath now will help shape this next stage of our work.

We believe technical skills create opportunities. Our goal is to train millions of learners and create lasting economic impact. If you want to build something new, take ownership, and see the results of your work, this is a place to do it.

About the Role

Location: Remote, United States, Europe, Canada or LATAM

Role-Type: Full-Time

Reports To: VP of Engineering

Compensation: $170,000 to $190,000 per year for US based applicants. Adjusted contingent on location for applicants based in Canada, LATAM, and Europe.

CodePath’s educational programs run on our sophisticated learning platform, a set of Ruby-based applications with functionality spanning admissions, course delivery, grading, career coaching, and reporting.

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer who can lead at multiple levels at once: the architecture, the product direction, the team's capacity, and the longer arc of where we're going. You'll move fluidly across the full technical stack, from infrastructure decisions to greenfield product work.

This is a high-ownership role. You'll work directly with stakeholders to understand what students and staff actually need, participate in deciding what gets built, and then lead the execution. You won't be handed a ticket queue. You'll shape the work.

The ideal candidate for this role is a web engineer inspired by potential projects like these:

Building brand-new functionality in Rails and beyond to create sophisticated and powerful new tools for our users and extend our reach to new kinds of learners we’ve never been able to serve before

Reimagining core platform components as we migrate them from Sinatra to Rails

Integrating AI/ML technology into our platform to support mastery-driven, adaptive learning

Scaling a system that has helped tens of thousands of students to help hundreds of thousands more

Key Activities

Architect and build web applications across Ruby on Rails, Sinatra/Padrino, and Django that directly support our mission

Make consequential technical decisions on infrastructure, data modeling, API design, and emerging technologies with full ownership of the tradeoffs

Set the code quality bar through reviews, architectural guidance, and constructive feedback

Write automated tests that reflect real edge cases, not just coverage targets

Identify performance bottlenecks and systemic issues before they become outages

Mentor other engineers and raise the technical ceiling of the team

Qualifications

10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years with Ruby on Rails

Familiarity with Claude Code or similar development tools and related best practices

A systems-thinking orientation: you consider scalability, maintainability, and failure modes before writing a line of code

• Strong PostgreSQL and database design skills, including experience with complex queries, indexing strategies, and schema evolution

Reasonable working familiarity with the full web stack, from infrastructure to CSS

Demonstrated ability to lead technical decisions in a small, autonomous team environment

Strong written and verbal communication. You can explain a technical tradeoff to a non-engineer without losing what actually matters

Passion for education and desire to make a positive impact

Nice to haves

Familiarity with higher education or edtech

Direct experience working with LLMs and generative AI in production

Familiarity with Docker, A...