Software Engineer

Main Area Of Focus

Building educational software using all the tools available (LLMs, AI agents) to give our human tutors superpowers

Job Highlight

As a software engineer at Learn To Be, you’ll be responsible for building tools that will help underserved kids around the United States to learn effectively. This means a lot of things: using the Science of Learning to build curriculum for students. Leveraging AI and LLMs to help our tutors be more effective during their session. And prototyping new ways to engage our students. 

About Learn To Be

Learn To Be is a 501c3 non-profit bringing free, 1-on-1, online tutoring to underserved youth around the United States. We work with K-12 students who need help with anything– from math and reading to writing, science and history. These students include homeless youth, foster youth and other low income students across the United States. Students are matched and meet with the same volunteer tutor, for 6 months or 6 years! The pair meet a couple of times per week to help the student close gaps, learn skills and get ahead.

You must have

• Rails 7+, Postgres, Sidekiq, Redis, Hotwire, StimulusJS, TailwindCSS expertise
• Strong knowledge of AI Apis (openAI, Anthropic, etc)
• Enough experience collaborating with designers to have opinions about design concepts, responsive design, design systems, and UI component libraries
• The ability to work quickly and deliver good frontend design and backend architecture

Add bonus if

• you know about the Science Of Learning and know about the theory of spaced repetition learning (Anki) and other research-backed techniques on how kids learn

How to apply

Send all the following to neeraj.kapoor@learntobe.org

1. Your resume

2. Your GitHub profile with details to relevant repos.

3. This is the most important: I really want to see things you've specifically built. If you blog, send me that! Built a side hustle, send me that too! Send me all of it and tell me what you did specifically.