Hybrid Product Engineer

at SchooLinks

• Job title: Product Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Django, React, Redis, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Full-Stack Product Engineer at SchooLinks developing educational tools for students and school staff. Collaborating with teams, shipping features independently in a hybrid role based in Austin, Texas.

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end: write specs and plan with Claude, build, QA, write release notes, create product documentation, and socialize changes with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to align on solutions, then execute autonomously once direction is set
• Ship clean, readable, and maintainable full-stack code across our Django backend and React frontend
• Use AI tools as a core part of your workflow for planning, building, and delivering
• Iterate rapidly on solutions by proposing, testing, and refining ideas
• Write tests and address technical debt to elevate codebase quality
• Design and build solutions that scale to millions of users
• Review requirements and user stories and provide timely, meaningful feedback
• Participate in on-call rotations

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience with strong proficiency in Django, Django Rest Framework (DRF), and React
• Demonstrated ability to ship complete features autonomously, including writing your own specs
• AI-native work style: active use of AI tools such as Claude or Cursor for planning, coding, and documentation
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to navigate unclear requirements and propose solutions
• Strong written communication skills for writing specs, release notes, and product documentation
• 3+ years of experience working with AWS
• 3+ years of experience working with SQL databases in production
• Experience building, supporting, and planning production systems
• Experience with asynchronous task management
• **Nice to have**
• Experience with the following technologies we use regularly:
• Celery
• Redis
• **Domain experience or interest in the following areas is a bonus:**
• Educational data (SIS, Ed-Fi, One Roster)
• Workforce development and career exploration
• Predictive analytics around educational outcomes

Benefits

• 100% health care coverage
• 401K with company 2% matching
• Dental & Vision
• Parental Leave
• Subsidized gym membership
• Remote work stipend
• Annual team offsite