Staff Software Architect, LearnWith.AI (Remote) - $200,000/year USD

We are seeking Platform Architects to build the foundational systems that enable other engineering teams to deliver. In this role, you will focus on platform-level products where your decisions around APIs, architectural design, and technical documentation directly influence how multiple teams execute their work.
Example Products In Scope

• TimeBack: An educational platform that supports Alpha Schools 2-hour learning model (achieving 99th percentile test outcomes)
• Incept: A content generation platform producing personalized educational materials for diverse learning applications
• Crossover: An AI-driven hiring platform managing tens of thousands of applicants each month
• This is a design-intensive position: you will spend 50% of your time authoring specifications, API contracts, and technical decisions; 30% building intricate platform capabilities; and 20% conducting reviews and providing technical guidance. You hold architectural authority. Once aligned with the team, your specifications become binding.
  

You will join a compact team of capable engineers, enjoy substantial ownership, and operate without bureaucracy. You design it, you implement it, you maintain it.
What You Will Be Doing

• Authoring detailed specifications prior to any implementation work
• Crafting APIs that ensure backward compatibility and future extensibility

• Producing Important Technical Decisions (ITDs) complete with justification and context
• Developing sophisticated platform features
• Conducting pull request reviews to maintain architectural coherence
  

What You Wont Be Doing

• Extensive team leadership or direct people management
• Building straightforward application-level products
• Spending time in prolonged meetings
• Doing pure architectural work with no hands-on implementation
  

Basic Requirements
Staff Software Architect key responsibilities

• A minimum of 5 years of professional software development experience
• At least 2 years spent designing systems in which other teams relied on your APIs or architectural decisions
• Demonstrated history of producing technical specifications or decisions that were implemented by others
• Practical experience integrating AI tools into your development workflow
  

About LearnWith.AI
LearnWith.AI is an edtech startup that leverages AI and subject matter experts to cultivate a new way of learning. Our unique approach leverages 50+ years of learning science, cutting-edge data analytics and AI-powered coaching. In doing so, we can help students learn more, learn faster, and learn better - and have fun while doing it. We are a remote-first company that hires globally via Crossover.
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Working with us
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5737-IN-Gurgaon-StaffSoftwareA.001