Senior Back-end Software Engineer

**Overview**:
We are looking for talented Senior Back-end Software Engineers (full-time contractors) based in South America to help with our ongoing growth and expansion Nerdy is a live learning platform that connects students and professionals with personalized instruction to achieve any goal. To date, students have accessed more than three million hours of live instruction on the platform.

We take great pride in the quality of our code, our processes, and our services. We have a complete CI/CD software lifecycle and an evolving services-oriented-architecture hosted in AWS. We operate in a highly collaborative environment with Product and Design to build innovative and high quality learning experiences for students. At Nerdy, engineers do not just write code, they actively participate in the conversation on what and how to build the systems and solutions that matter to learners all around the world.

**About Nerdy**:
At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) - the company behind Varsity Tutors - we're redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale. We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you'd bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.

Fortune favors the bold. Join us.

**How we compete**:

- **AI-Native at every level**
From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you're not wielding AI, you're not done.
- **Entrepreneurial velocity**
Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.
- **Free-market rigor**
Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.
- **Full-stack ownership**
You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.
- **Reward for contribution**
Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both **_what_** you achieve and **_how_**_ _you achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded.
- **Relentless exploration**
Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.
- **Is Apolitical**
You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes.

**Nerdy's shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy**:
- Q1-2025 Shareholder Letter
- Q4-2024 Shareholder Letter
- Q3-2024 Shareholder Letter

**Qualifications**:
Experience with working with one or more of the following:
Golang- Ruby on Rails- Experience with deployment systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy)
- Familiarity with AWS Services (e.g. RDS, Lambda, EC2, etc)
- Familiarity with the Linux operating system and command-line tools.
- Understanding of OO design, algorithms, and data structures.
- Aptitude to quickly learn new languages and technologies as necessary.
- Understand and appreciate that Nerdy is an apolitical company and that we can have the largest impact if we are united in our focus on helping people learn and not divided or distracted by advancing unrelated causes.
- Computer Science or related degree preferred.
- Fluent in English.

**Responsibilities**:
Write performant, maintainable code that is easy to read and well-documented.
- Be effective in a team environment working with fellow engineers, product management, and design.

**Unlock Your Full Potential at Nerdy**:
Join our worldwide team—work from home, get great pay, and help shape the future of learning. Here's what you get:

- **Competitive USD Compensation**: Enjoy a market-leading rate paid in U.S. dollars.
- **100% Remote (Home Country Only)**: Work from anywhere in your home country—no relocation required, no borders crossed.
- **Flexible Time Off**: Our flexible PTO lets you recharge on your own terms and when you need it the most.
- **Local Holiday Pay**: We honor your nation's official holidays with paid time off—celebrate what matters to you.
- **Continuous Learning**: Get a free, all-inclusive learning membership for you and your household—including 1-on-1 tutoring hours, unlimited on-demand classes, and access to our full suite of learning products and services.
- **Supercharge with AI**: Gain exclusive access to cutting-edge AI tools that boost your productivity, making you feel almost super-human (cape not included).
- **Feedback-Rich, Collaborative Culture**: Tap into regular training, peer reviews, and a team that treats every team member as a vital collaborator and owner in our success.
- **Make a Global Impact**: Your expertise fuels an innovative platform used by learners around the w