Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (Remote)

Company: Teaching Strategies, LLC
Location: Denton, Texas
Type: remote
Posted: Sep 11, 2026
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Teaching Strategies, an edtech company focused on early childhood education, is hiring a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong backend focus. The role requires 5+ years of experience and expertise in Go, PostgreSQL, and scalable API design. Candidates should have experience with distributed systems, CI/CD, and mentoring, with React and AWS as preferred skills. The position is remote with a competitive compensation package.

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Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers.

Position Overview

We build planning and curriculum experiences that help educators create, manage, and deliver meaningful learning experiences. Planning is a central part of our product ecosystem, and our systems support complex, customer-facing workflows that must remain reliable, scalable, and maintainable as the product evolves.

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong backend focus. This role will design and evolve the services, data models, APIs, integrations, and release practices behind our product, while collaborating effectively with frontend engineers and contributing to user-facing work when needed.

The ideal candidate has deep backend engineering judgment, can lead complex initiatives through delivery, and brings an open mind to improving systems and technical direction. They communicate technical decisions, progress, risks, and dependencies clearly to stakeholders.
  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services supporting planning and curriculum workflows.
  • Build and evolve APIs, integration contracts, data models, and database migrations.
  • Develop and optimize backend services using Go and PostgreSQL.
  • Lead technical initiatives from discovery through delivery, including solution design, implementation, validation, and release.
  • Troubleshoot production issues, performance bottlenecks, and complex cross-system behavior; implement durable solutions.
  • Own the quality of releases, including testing, validation, deployment readiness, and post-release follow-through.
  • Work closely with product, design, QA, and engineering partners to deliver cohesive end-to-end experiences.
  • Evaluate existing approaches and recommend pragmatic new solutions or technical directions that better serve customers and the product.
  • Contribute to architecture, documentation, engineering standards, and practices that improve system maintainability and developer effectiveness.
  • Participate in code reviews, planning, and architectural discussions.
  • Mentor engineers and promote high standards for code quality, testing, reliability, accessibility, and maintainability.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows thoughtfully to improve debugging, validation, automation, and delivery.
Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of professional experience building and maintaining production software systems.
  • Strong experience developing backend services with Go.
  • Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, including schema design, migrations, query optimization, and production data considerations.
  • Experience designing and maintaining APIs, service boundaries, and integration contracts.
  • Experience working with distributed systems, caching, event-driven integrations, or asynchronous processing.
  • Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues in complex systems.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and make sound architectural decisions.
  • Strong debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product, design, and quality teams.
  • Ability to identify risks, communicate tradeoffs, and keep stakeholders informed without creating unnecessary overhead.
  • Ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic product delivery.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering best practices.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and modern developer productivity tools.
Preferred (but not mandatory):
  • Experience with React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript development.
  • Experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure, including deploying, operating, or troubleshooting cloud-hosted applications.
  • Familiarity with consuming or integrating with GraphQL APIs.
  • Experience with curriculum, planning, content, or similarly complex workflow-driven SaaS products.
  • Experience modernizing legacy systems while continuing to deliver customer value.
Why Teaching Strategies

At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve.

Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies!

Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies

Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include:
  • Competitive compensation package
  • Employee Equity Appreciation Program
  • Health and wellness insurance benefits
  • 401k with employer match
  • Flexible work environment
  • Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth
  • Best in class technology equipment for every employee
  • Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field
Teaching Strategies is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)
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