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Inspira Education Group is a fast-growing edtech startup backed by leading VCs including Zeev Ventures, Quiet Capital, and Craft Ventures. The company operates the world's leading network of top admissions coaches in medical, legal, business, and college studies, combining software and services to democratize access to high-quality coaching and disrupt traditional application processes.
You will own the complete product development lifecycle: translating business needs and user feedback into product requirements, user flows, and prioritized development plans; designing and building polished full-stack applications; making architecture decisions that balance speed, reliability, and maintainability; and measuring whether your work improves adoption, conversion, or operational efficiency.
Key responsibilities include:
- Translate business needs and user feedback into product requirements, user flows, prototypes, and development plans
- Design and build applications across front end, back end, database, and integrations
- Make architecture decisions and scope releases balancing speed, reliability, and future maintainability
- Use AI tools throughout development to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation
- Own deployment, production monitoring, incident resolution, and ongoing improvements
- Measure whether your work improves adoption, conversion, operational efficiency, or other business outcomes
- Conduct product discovery by speaking with users, understanding workflows, and identifying underlying problems
- Create user flows and prototypes in Figma or code, including edge cases and failure states
- Instrument important user actions and combine analytics with feedback to guide improvements
- Communicate decisions clearly and coordinate with nontechnical stakeholders
This is a full-time, in-person role requiring 5 days per week in the NYC office.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Typically 5+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent evidence of substantial independent ownership
- Track record of shipping and maintaining full-stack production applications
- Examples of features or products where you personally influenced requirements, design, and implementation
- Experience taking loosely defined problems through to a working release
TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED:
Front-end: Strong proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and Next.js (component architecture, hooks, routing, client/server rendering); strong HTML and CSS skills with responsive layouts; experience managing forms, validation, application state, asynchronous data, caching, and loading/error states; ability to diagnose rendering issues and improve performance; ability to build accessible interfaces with semantic markup and keyboard navigation.
Back-end: Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript using frameworks like Express or NestJS; experience designing and implementing REST APIs with validation, pagination, error handling, and documentation; experience implementing authentication, authorization, role-based access, and third-party integrations; ability to build reliable background jobs and webhook processing; understanding of timeouts, rate limits, caching, and application bottlenecks.
Databases: Strong practical knowledge of PostgreSQL and SQL; ability to design relational schemas, relationships, constraints, and indexes; experience with database migrations, transactions, and investigating slow queries; familiarity with ORMs like Prisma or Drizzle; ability to handle data integrity and concurrent updates.
Deployment & Operations: Experience independently deploying and operating applications on AWS, GCP, Azure, or Vercel; working knowledge of Git, pull requests, CI/CD pipelines, environment configuration, and secrets management; familiarity with Docker; ability to set up logs, error tracking, monitoring, and alerts; experience handling releases, migrations, rollbacks, and production debugging.
Testing & Security: Ability to write meaningful unit, integration, and end-to-end tests using Vitest/Jest and Playwright/Cypress; strong debugging skills; practical understanding of secure sessions, server-side permission checks, input validation, SQL injection, XSS, and sensitive data protection; ability to structure maintainable code and refactor safely.
AI-Assisted Development: Regular, hands-on use of tools like Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Codex; ability to give AI tools useful repository context and break complex work into verifiable tasks; ability to evaluate generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability; experience using tests, type checks, and code review to validate AI-generated changes; ability to explain and debug resulting code independently.
NICE TO HAVE:
- Python and FastAPI
- Experience building AI features using model APIs, structured outputs, tool calling, or retrieval
- Experience integrating CRMs, payment systems, analytics platforms, or business workflow tools
- Experience as an early startup engineer or independent product builder
