EducationSuperHighway
Senior Software Engineer
1mo ago
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Build and own a full-stack platform integrating payroll and HRIS providers for a national education philanthropy benefit.
Responsibilities
- • Design and build an API-first full-stack platform connecting employers, employees, and payroll systems
- • Own integrations with payroll and HRIS providers — authorization flows, data sync, and deduction management
- • Build employee-facing enrollment flows and employer-facing campaign and dashboard tooling
- • Design reliable background job pipelines with status tracking, retry logic, and error handling
- • Handle sensitive employee and financial data with appropriate security practices
- • Make sound architecture decisions under ambiguity, balancing speed with long-term extensibility
Conditions
- EducationSuperHighway offers market-rate compensation competitive with for-profit companies. Specific compensation details will be shared with candidates during the interview process.
- For candidates who convert to full-time, ESH offers a comprehensive benefits package including:
- • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits
- • Generous PTO and flexible remote work
- • The opportunity to build a team and function from scratch and to help close the K-12 literacy gap in America
Other
- Employment Type: Contract | Potential to Convert to Full-Time
- Location: Remote
- EducationSuperHighway, the national non-profit that connected 99.7% of American students to high-speed internet and 5 million low-income households to affordable broadband, is now launching its 3.0 mission to end the reading crisis in America's K-12 schools.
- Beginning in 2027, the federal Education Freedom Tax Credit (EFTC) creates a new mechanism for employers to offer education philanthropy as a workplace benefit. ESH is building the infrastructure that makes this real, connecting employers, employees, and payroll systems into a seamless giving experience.
- This is ESH's first engineering hire for this product. You will make real architecture decisions, own third-party integrations, and build the platform that brings this benefit to life for employers and employees nationwide ahead of the 2027 launch. This engagement starts as a contract role with a strong path to full-time conversion for the right person.
- • 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience building production web applications
- • Early-stage startup experience, working with ambiguity, and building from 0 to 1.
- • Demonstrated use of AI coding tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Claude — as a regular part of your development workflow, including planning, code generation, debugging, and refactoring
- • Mature judgment about AI outputs: knowing when to trust, when to correct, and when to set the tools aside
- • Strong third-party API integration experience, particularly OAuth flows and structured data write-back
- • Experience modeling relational data for complex, multi-step stateful workflows
- • Proven ability to build reliable background job pipelines with operational visibility
- • Secure handling of PII and financial data
- • Clear communication and sound judgment in early-stage, ambiguous environments
- • Experience integrating with payroll or HRIS platforms — UKG, Rippling, ADP, Workday, or similar
- • Background in HR tech, benefits, workplace giving, or fintech
- • Familiarity with payroll deduction mechanics or year-end tax document workflows