Software Engineer — Medley Learning

Summary

Medley Learning builds AI-powered instructional support tools that help multilingual learners access rigorous classroom content while reducing teacher workload. The Software Engineer will primarily develop React/TypeScript Chrome extension and web application features, contribute to UI/UX design, support backend data systems and AI product quality, and help build secure, accessible, reliable experiences for schools.

Responsibilities

• Build the front end. Develop and ship features in our React/TypeScript Chrome extension and web apps, with attention to performance, accessibility (WCAG), and the realities of injecting UI into third-party pages
• Shape the user experience. Partner on UI/UX design — wireframes, interaction patterns, visual polish — and help turn rough ideas into intuitive experiences for students and teachers. Design tool experience is a plus; design instinct is essential
• Think in systems. Understand and contribute to our data models and APIs (Node.js, MongoDB): how student, content, and scaffold data fit together, how it flows through the extension, and how we keep it correct and private
• Expand product coverage. Help Medley work seamlessly across more websites, learning platforms, Google Workspace tools, and PDF-based materials
• Support AI product quality. Work with the engineering team on the interfaces and data that let us evaluate and improve AI-generated scaffolds
• Build for trust. Contribute to privacy, security, and reliability as we scale with school partners
• Operate with ownership. Take initiative, solve problems independently, and help shape engineering culture on a small, fast-moving team

Skills

• Strong React and TypeScript skills. You've built and shipped production front ends and care about component design, state management, and performance
• Systems thinking. You're comfortable reading and writing backend code, and you naturally ask how data is modeled, where it lives, and how it moves — even when the task in front of you is a UI
• Design sensibility. You notice when something feels off, can articulate why, and can propose something better. You've collaborated with (or been) the person sketching the interface
• Product mindset. You think beyond the ticket and care about what should be built, for whom, and why
• Execution orientation. Practical, resourceful, and able to move quickly without sacrificing quality
• Clear communicator. You collaborate well with technical and non-technical teammates, including educators
• Startup fit. You're energized by ambiguity and comfortable wearing multiple hats
• Chrome extension or browser-platform experience (content scripts, DOM manipulation on pages you don't control)
• Experience with Node.js, MongoDB, and AWS
• Familiarity with Figma or similar design tools
• Experience building accessible interfaces
• Experience working with LLM APIs or AI-powered products
• Empathy for education, accessibility, multilingual learners, or special education — as a learner, educator, or builder

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Strong React and TypeScript skills. You've built and shipped production front ends and care about component design, state management, and performance
• Systems thinking. You're comfortable reading and writing backend code, and you naturally ask how data is modeled, where it lives, and how it moves — even when the task in front of you is a UI
• Design sensibility. You notice when something feels off, can articulate why, and can propose something better. You've collaborated with (or been) the person sketching the interface
• Product mindset. You think beyond the ticket and care about what should be built, for whom, and why
• Execution orientation. Practical, resourceful, and able to move quickly without sacrificing quality
• Clear communicator. You collaborate well with technical and non-technical teammates, including educators
• Startup fit. You're energized by ambiguity and comfortable wearing multiple hats

Nice to Haves

• Chrome extension or browser-platform experience (content scripts, DOM manipulation on pages you don't control)
• Experience with Node.js, MongoDB, and AWS
• Familiarity with Figma or similar design tools
• Experience building accessible interfaces
• Experience working with LLM APIs or AI-powered products
• Empathy for education, accessibility, multilingual learners, or special education — as a learner, educator, or builder

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement
• Join early and work directly with founders and engineering leadership
• Own meaningful technical and design decisions
• Work in a diverse and inclusive work environment