Workshop Venture Partners
Workshop Venture Partners

Fullstack Engineer

April 21, 2025
Full-time
Remote · Boston, MA
Entry level
Back-end Developer
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At Medley, we believe every student deserves the opportunity to succeed, no matter what language they speak at home. Medley is a digital tool that helps multilingual learners by adding just-right supports to the texts and assignments they already encounter in school. With Medley, students can click on any word to get student-friendly definitions, visuals, audio, and examples; adjust the reading level of a text; access side-by-side translations; hear passages read aloud; and get writing help like sentence starters and word banks. For teachers, Medley lightens the load by automatically adapting classroom materials based on each student’s English proficiency and home language, without needing to rewrite lessons from scratch.

By making academic content more accessible, Medley helps multilingual learners fully participate in core subjects like science, history, and language arts — areas where they too often fall behind simply because the materials weren’t designed with them in mind. Schools can customize Medley to fit their students' needs and ensure that they get the right support level at the right time.

Our goal is to change how kids learn language, and that’s where you come in.

How you will help us achieve it

As a founding engineer, you will collaborate with the company founders and product team to build the software envisioned.

You will ideate, design, implement, and maintain the software side of the product. You will code the UX, write the backend, model the database, set up the infrastructure, and work with LLMs.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to tackle exciting challenges such as:

  • Improving our codebase, architecture and processes
  • Building new features, many of which will use LLMs
  • Mentoring young engineer(s) to be great at their craft, as our team grows

Key Details:

  • You can work remotely from anywhere with an overlap of at least four hours with the product team (6 pm to 10 pm IST)
  • This role involves participating in calls with US-based stakeholders
  • The compensation comes with a salary and an equity component

You’ll thrive if you

  • Care about your craft and the mission of the software you are developing
  • You don’t just complete tickets that are assigned to you; you think deeply about the product and how you can make it great, then put that into action
  • Enjoy developing 0-1 software products iteratively
  • Are proficient in the Typescript ecosystem, including monorepos.
  • Are skilled in React and Express (Koa is a plus) or similar tech
  • Can deploy infrastructure using Terraform
  • Are pragmatic and understand trade-offs in software engineering

Requirements:

  • 4+ years of experience in building software products
  • Have solid experience with the MERN stack
  • Have created applications using AI and LLMs
  • Have a deep understanding of infrastructure and can optimise for cost
  • Have comfort in setting up alerting, logging, and error reporting systems
  • Ability to debug and optimize complex systems
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Bonus points for:

  • Have built consumer applications that have been used by many users
  • Experience in mentoring junior team members. Better if they had gone to replace you in your team, allowing you to take up a more meaningful role
  • Familiarity with our tech stack (React, Koa, Mongo, Terraform, AWS)
  • Contributions to open-source projects
  • Care for education and have built software products in this space

Your First Six Months:

  • You will be working on multiple initiatives. Many of which will be discarded
  • You will work on building Chrome extensions, APIs, AI workflows and agents
  • You will work with Google Docs APIs and objects to make it work with our extensions
  • You will demo the product to a lot of potential customers and partners
  • You will take product feedback and come up with features/fixes that you want to work on

About Engineering At Medley

We value:

  • High ownership and fast iteration
  • Deeply understanding our tools and systems
  • Constantly trying to improve as engineers and colleagues

Our stack:

  • Infrastructure: AWS / Terraform
  • Orchestration: ECS
  • Database: Mongo
  • Backend: KOA (Express)
  • Web frontend: TypeScript/React

Our team

  • The Company is funded by Workshop Ventures Partners, as US-based venture studio focused on building great companies in Ed Tech
  • The team consists of 4 founding members from the Workshop Ventures team — Eleanor, Mike, Eddie, and Ulhas

Interview Process:

  • Screening: Review of your open source contributions and past projects.
  • First Round of Technical Evaluation: Assessing your problem-solving and AI integration skills.
  • Technical Evaluation + Cultural Fit: Understanding your alignment with our team.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences.