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Senior Software Engineer, (Studio Engineer)

Elly · United States · On-site

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About Elly

The first empathetic audio companion for patients living with a chronic disease. Backed by Techstars.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer , you'll sit at the intersection of engineering, AI tooling, and creative product development . You'll build the systems that allow the team to go from an idea to a working, student-testable experience in days instead of weeks. You'll work closely with engineers, designers, curriculum experts, and storytellers to make prototyping faster, more collaborative, and easier to turn into production software.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to build production-quality systems
  • Experience building developer tools, internal platforms, automation, infrastructure, or similar systems
  • Deep curiosity about AI coding agents and emerging agentic development workflows
  • Experience working with APIs, orchestration, queues, asynchronous systems, and automation
  • Comfort working across the stack and moving between infrastructure, product, and creative tooling
More about this role

Our client is building a new kind of learning experience for children.

Their first product is a learning companion for kids ages 5-10 that listens, talks, and teaches math and reading through stories built around what each child is curious about. Behind the experience is a learning graph that understands what a child already knows, what they are working on, and what should come next.

They are a small team building across AI, software, hardware, learning science, and storytelling. They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help turn ideas into working experiences at extraordinary speed.

As a Senior Software Engineer , you'll sit at the intersection of engineering, AI tooling, and creative product development .

You'll build the systems that allow the team to go from an idea to a working, student-testable experience in days instead of weeks. You'll work closely with engineers, designers, curriculum experts, and storytellers to make prototyping faster, more collaborative, and easier to turn into production software.

This isn't a traditional feature-engineering role. You'll spend a lot of time building the tools and infrastructure that help the entire team build .

You'll...

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