Job Openings Senior Fullstack Engineer

About the job Senior Fullstack Engineer

Bridge-it at a Glance

Bridge-it is an AI powered SaaS platform redefining how middle and high school students plan their careers. By combining Generative AI, data driven insights, and seamless school integrations, we empower students, counselors, school personel and families to chart actionable paths from classroom to career.

As a rapidly growing scaleup, were looking for a FullStack Senior Engineer/ Technical Lead who can own end to end application architecture, drive engineering excellence, and mentor a small but mighty team.

Why This Role Matters

  • Architect for scale: You will design the next generation of our Python/Django + Next.js platform to serve hundreds of schools and tens of thousands of concurrent users.
  • Own the API contract: Define clean, versioned REST and event driven interfaces that power our AI services and partner integrations.

  • Ship with velocity: Balance longterm architecture with short sprint cycles typical of an early stage startup.

  • Wear multiple hats: From DevOps and performance tuning to code reviews and mentoring team members your fingerprints will be everywhere.

Key Responsibilities

What You will Do

Architecture & Design

Lead the overall solution architecture (frontend, backend, data, infrastructure). Translate product requirements and domain rules into resilient application designs. Champion DomainDriven Design and modular, testable codebases.

Backend Engineering

Own Python/Django (Ninja/Channels) services, designing REST APIs. Model data with Django ORM, Postgres, optimize queries and caching layers. Implement pub/sub and WebSocket patterns for realtime AI assistance. Experience in partner and vendor integration, large scale data handling will be a plus.

Frontend Oversight

Guide engineers on Next.js 14 (App Router) and modern React patterns (TypeScript, Shadcn, Zustand). Ensure accessibility, performance (Core Web Vitals), and design consistency with Tailwind CSS.

Cloud & DevOps

Design and maintain GCP infrastructure (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry). Implement CI/CD pipelines, IaC (Terraform), automated testing, and bluegreen rollouts. Monitor and tune performance (OpenTelemetry, Sentry, Prometheus, Cloud Monitoring).

Scalability & Reliability

Define SLIs/SLOs, load test AI workflows, and establish autoscaling policies. Optimize connection pools (PgBouncer), caching (Redis/Cloud Memorystore), and async task queues (Cloud Tasks/Celery).

Leadership & Mentorship

Serve as technical owner for 6-8 engineers. Drive sprint planning (working with product and project management team), code reviews, and technical debt management. Foster a culture of quality, documentation, and continuous learning.

What Were Looking For

MustHaves

  • 5 + years building production web applications, with 3 + years in Python/Django (class based APIs, Ninja (Extra), async, Channels). This role has more backend focus than frontend.
  • Having Python/Django and strong system design experience is a must.

  • Demonstrated experience architecting APIs (REST & GraphQL) and event-driven services at scale ( >10 k RPS, horizontal autoscaling).

  • Deep understanding of application design patterns, SOLID principles, and domain modeling.

  • Proven GCP or AWS expertise. We use GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL/Postgres, Pub/Sub, IAM, VPCs) and solid DevOps chops (CI/CD, IaC, observability).

  • Track record of performance & scalability tuning (profiling, caching strategies, DB indexing, async processing, CDN usage).

  • Comfortable leading small engineering teams, performing code reviews, and mentoring junior developers.

  • Exposure to early stage or high growth startup environments you thrive amid ambiguity and tight timelines.

Nice to Haves

  • Experience with Generative AI / LLM integrations, LangChain/LangGraph, vector databases.

  • Familiarity with security & compliance in EdTech (FERPA, COPPA) and K12 integrations (OneRoster, Google Classroom).

What You will Get

  • Impact & Ownership: Shape the core architecture of a mission driven product.

  • Competitive Compensation & Equity: Meaningful ownership in a high growth EdTech startup.

  • Remote Flexibility: Work where you perform best, with US ET core hours for collaboration.

  • Fast Career Growth: Step into a leadership role with direct access to the founders and strategic decisions. Be part of a fast growing startup.


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