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Senior Software Engineer, Optimizer

Timely · USA (Remote) · Remote

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About Timely

Backed by 500 Global.

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will design, build, and maintain our core optimization technology along with the full-stack and data-intensive systems surrounding it, powering scheduling for our users. You will be expected to lead challenging technical projects encompassing these technical domains.

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years of development experience, with a demonstrated track record of shipping value to customers while contributing across the stack as necessary
  • Prior success in driving software delivery on complex and challenging technology projects (partnering with product stakeholders, driving critical decisions, establishing project roadmaps and work tasks, presenting outcomes to external stakeholders, etc.)
  • Depth of knowledge in at least some of the following areas, with a strong interest and capacity to learn in the others:
  • Linear optimization modeling and solvers
  • Application stacks built heavily on machine learning
  • Product and infrastructure stacks leveraging generative AI
More about this role

School scheduling is a hard problem, one that technology was meant to solve. Yet for decades, the master schedule has been built by hand, consuming educators’ valuable time while delivering a sub-optimal result for students. We started Timely to build the tool we wish we had when we were in schools. And today, we are changing how schools create high quality schedules for teachers and students. Timely combines groundbreaking AI technology with support from a team of expert school schedulers: saving schedulers’ time, and surfacing opportunities for leaders to unlock staff potential. Timely delivers optimized master schedules that are more efficient, accommodate diverse educator needs, and enable student access to courses and pathways that impact their lives.

Our district and school partners agree: scheduling is a key opportunity for educational innovation, and that Timely is the indispensable partner in addressing the challenge. We’re experiencing exciting growth as a company, while doubling down on our mission and people-centered approach to leveraging powerful technology. We serve districts and charter school organizations across 20+ states, growing (and renewing) at rates that...

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