Senior Front-end Software Engineer

**Overview**:
We are looking for Senior Front-End Engineers (full-time contractors) based in South America to join the engineering team to help with our ongoing growth and expansion Your focus would be on building frontend experiences in React. Familiarity with backend services & technologies is a plus. We have a complete CI/CD software lifecycle and an evolving services-oriented-architecture hosted in AWS. As a Senior Front-End Engineer, you'll help shape how students, educators, and institutions interact with our technology. Whether it's building a seamless class discovery flow, improving accessibility and performance, or integrating AI into real-time classroom experiences, your work will directly impact how people learn every day. You'll collaborate with Product, Design, and Backend Engineering to create fast, elegant, and responsive interfaces that bring our innovations to life.

**About Nerdy**:
At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) - the company behind Varsity Tutors - we're redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale. We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you'd bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.

Fortune favors the bold. Join us.

**How we compete**:

- **AI-Native at every level**
From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you're not wielding AI, you're not done.
- **Entrepreneurial velocity**
Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.
- **Free-market rigor**
Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.
- **Full-stack ownership**
You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.
- **Reward for contribution**
Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both **_what_** you achieve and **_how_**_ _you achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded.
- **Relentless exploration**
Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.
- **Is Apolitical**
You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes.

**Nerdy's shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy**:

- Q1-2025 Shareholder Letter
- Q4-2024 Shareholder Letter
- Q3-2024 Shareholder Letter

**Qualifications**:

- Experience with React.
- Familiarity with backend services & technologies is a plus, particularly in Ruby on Rails.
- Experience with deployment systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy).
- Familiarity with AWS Services (e.g. RDS, Lambda, EC2, et cetera).
- Familiarity with the Linux operating system and command-line tools.
- Experience with Cursor or other AI-coding tools.
- Understanding of OO design, algorithms, and data structures.
- Aptitude to quickly learn new languages and technologies as necessary.
- Experience developing websites that are visited by thousands of visitors daily.
- Experience with enhancing SEO performance.
- Understand and appreciate that Nerdy is an apolitical company and that we can have the largest impact if we are united in our focus on helping people learn and not divided or distracted by advancing unrelated causes.
- Computer Science or related degree preferred.
- Fluent in English.

**Responsibilities**:

- Write performant, maintainable code that is easy to read and well-documented.
- Write automated tests to thoroughly validate the correctness of your code.
- Have a focus on quality, and operate iteratively to get from good to better.
- Be a part of your team's on-call rotation; we all own our code end-to-end from development to deployment to operations.
- Come ready to learn from some of the best and brightest in the industry.
- Work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic and fast-moving team.
- Be effective in a team environment working with fellow engineers, product management, and design.

**Unlock Your Full Potential at Nerdy**:
Join our worldwide team—work from home, get great pay, and help shape the future of learning. Here's what you get:

- **Competitive USD Compensation**: Enjoy a market-leading rate paid in U.S. dollars.
- **100% Remote (Home Country Only)**: Work from anywhere in your home country—no relocation required, no borders crossed.
- **Flexible Time Off**: Our flexible PTO lets you recharge on your own terms and when you need it the most.
- **Local Holiday Pay**: We honor your nation's official holidays with paid time off—celebrate what matters to you.
- **Continuous Learning*