Newsela - Contract: Senior Software Engineer, Writing (Remote, LATAM)

• A senior IC with a high agency. Someone who: • Owns the full lifecycle. Takes a problem from vague ask to shipped, monitored, and stable in production. Comfortable shaping scope without heavy PM guidance. • Raises issues early. Catches risks, design drift, and brittle patterns before they reach production - in their own work and in review. Doesn't wait to be asked. • Picks up slack outside their lane. Steps into incidents, jumps into a teammate's PR queue, and drives an unowned problem when priorities shift. • Builds in the AI-native space with judgment. Uses agents as a daily driver, knows their failure modes, and pushes the team's practice forward - not just their own. • Drives delivery. Active in planning and grooming, pushes back on under-specified work, communicates trade-offs clearly to engineering and product partners. • 5+ years building production web applications, with a strong full-stack range (modern React/TypeScript frontends and a typed or Pythonic backend). • Track record of owning ambiguous problems end-to-end and shipping with measurable impact. • Substantive code review history - examples of catching architectural issues. • Active daily use of AI coding agents (Claude Code or similar) with a clear point of view on where they help, where they hurt, and how to keep their output reviewable. • Comfort with production debugging across the stack: traces, logs, profiling, the unglamorous parts. • Strong async written communication: clear PR descriptions, sharp Slack, sharp specs. • Strong Plus • Experience extending or building on agentic developer tooling (custom agents, skills, hooks, MCP servers, eval harnesses). • Background in rich text editing, document collaboration, or LLM-backed product features. • All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check as part of our pre-employment process. • Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits. • Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.