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Staff Software Engineer

Cambly · San Francisco · Remote

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About Cambly

Cambly gives you instant access to native English speakers over video chat, so you can learn and gain confidence! Backed by Bessemer, Y Combinator and GV.

About the role

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical direction of the products we ship. You'll be a senior technical owner on a fast-moving engineering team of around 15 engineers: backend-strong, comfortable working across the stack, and accountable for taking products from design through launch. You'll work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers, and you'll set the bar for how the team builds.

More about this role

About Cambly: Our mission is to bring high-quality English education to every English learner in the world at the touch of a button. Think of us as the Airbnb that matches English students with English tutors. Come help us build the world's largest English learning marketplace and school.

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical direction of the products we ship. You'll be a senior technical owner on a fast-moving engineering team of around 15 engineers: backend-strong, comfortable working across the stack, and accountable for taking products from design through launch. You'll work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers, and you'll set the bar for how the team builds.

We're bringing AI to language learning in a way that strengthens what makes Cambly work: real tutors and real human connection. And we build AI-first: implementation is delegated to AI coding tools so engineers spend their time on the decisions, design, and review that actually shape the product. That's how you work too.

Our frontend is built on Next.js, React, and TypeScript. Our backend is built with Python (Flask and FastAPI) on AWS with MongoDB.

Own the product platform....

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