Job Description
You will be responsible for scaling platforms that serve thousands of students and teams: • TimeBack: An educational platform enabling Alpha School's 2-hour learning model (achieving 99th percentile test scores). • Incept: A content generation platform producing personalized educational materials for various learning applications deployed at Alpha School. • Crossover: An AI-driven hiring platform managing tens of thousands of candidates monthly, supporting global staffing for schools and enterprises.
You will take ownership of one of these platforms and dedicate the majority of your time to implementing the most complex components of the codebase with a lean team (3-5 experienced engineers, no junior developers). The architectural choices you make will dictate whether other teams can build new applications quickly, integrate seamlessly, and deliver value to students. Correct decisions unlock substantial leverage. Poor decisions result in integration failures and diminish velocity across the organization.
You design what you build and operate. You define quality standards and engineering patterns for your platform. Our approach is specification-driven: design precedes implementation, planning precedes execution. You will have high autonomy, no committees, no approval boards. You will work within a compact, cohesive team and remain accountable for what you deliver. What You Will Be Doing • Technical Leadership: Drive strategic architectural choices and define technical patterns for the team. • AI Leadership: Champion the adoption of emerging AI workflows and develop high-impact playbooks.
• Implementation: Develop the complex, mission-critical components of the codebase with your team. • Quality Reviews: Validate that your team adheres to established patterns and upholds quality benchmarks. What You Won’t Be Doing • Acting as an architect who does not write code • Spending excessive time in meetings • Managing people (this role focuses on technical leadership, not personnel management) • Maintaining legacy systems or handling internal IT infrastructure Basic Requirements Lead Software Architect key responsibilities • Minimum 5 years of professional software development experience creating software products • Minimum 3 years in a lead engineer role (conducting code reviews) or architect role (driving key technical decisions) • Proven experience developing platform-level products with APIs consumed by other teams • Active and deep engagement with AI tools, consistently experimenting and exploring new capabilities About LearnWith.AI LearnWith.AI is an edtech startup that leverages AI and subject matter experts to cultivate a new way of learning.
Our unique approach leverages 50+ years of learning science, cutting-edge data analytics and AI-powered coaching. In doing so, we can help students learn more, learn faster, and learn better - and have fun while doing it. We are a remote-first company that hires globally via Crossover. There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you! Working with us
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position.
The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic. Crossover Job Code: LJ-5106-US-Atlanta-LeadSoftwareAr.024 Apply tot his job