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Salary: USD 160,000 - 180,000 / annual
Odyssey partners with state agencies to design, launch, and operate Education Savings Account (ESA) and school choice programs. The company provides technology, program operations, vendor ecosystem, and family experience to support these initiatives. Operating across 10 states, Odyssey's platform powers programs serving 250,000+ students and over $2B in annual education funding.
As a Full Stack Engineer, you will build core technology behind the platform, working across the stack on program eligibility systems, education fund ledgers, and a marketplace enabling schools and vendors to accept tuition and service payments. This role focuses on building full-stack systems including scalable services, APIs, data models, frontend UI, and internal tools supporting families, schools, providers, and operational teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own features end-to-end from ideation and technical design through implementation, deployment, and iteration
- Build and ship 0-1 products and systems, turning ambiguous ideas into scalable, production-ready solutions
- Architect and develop functional experiences using TypeScript, AWS Lambda, Next.js, and other frameworks
- Design, write, and execute tests ensuring robustness and reliability
- Design and implement sophisticated database models considering scalability and performance
- Develop and maintain APIs for public and internal use
- Drive continuous improvement of the Marketplace platform in collaboration with product teams
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify needs and bridge product gaps
- Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed and scalability with bias toward shipping and learning quickly
- Foster transparent communication, sharing challenges and successes openly
- Contribute to system design, platform management, code reviews, and architectural decisions
- Take full ownership of production work including monitoring, debugging, and continuous improvement
- Operate with high autonomy while proactively identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities
Requirements:
- 3-5+ years of software development experience
- Proficiency in TypeScript for building robust, scalable applications
- Experience with early to mid-stage tech startups and enthusiasm for startup dynamics
- Track record of building or significantly contributing to 0-1 products or features
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to turn loosely defined problems into clear, actionable plans
- Entrepreneurial mindset—thinking like an owner, not just an implementer
- Strong communication skills, comfortable pitching new approaches and concepts
- Solid understanding and experience with Agile practices
- Track record of shipping quickly and iterating based on feedback
Preferred Skills:
- Experience building scalable software using AWS technologies
- Experience in highly regulated industries (fintech, govtech, healthtech)
- Experience with double-entry ledgers, payments (Stripe a plus), and money movement
- Experience owning services end-to-end including infrastructure maintenance
- Familiarity with Terraform, CI/CD, and observability tools
