Lead Engineer (Backend)
Remote$50k - $75kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Backend-focused lead engineer role for an EdTech nonprofit building an API-first backend, with responsibilities spanning backend, devops, data science workflows, and ML model initiatives to scale a chatbot-driven math learning platform.
Responsibilities
- Launching and documenting a public API with authentication
- Building new backend functionality (especially around data retrieval and analysis) to support frontend development
- Optimizing MySQL database configurations and access patterns
- Designing and implementing data science workflows, focused on automating quality assurance and content scoring
- Building and testing ML models to improve our content matching algorithm
- Professionalizing our software development practices (test cases, staging environments, standardization, etc.)
- Making sure that all systems scale efficiently alongside our impact (probably 10-100x over the next year)
- Support (and potentially manage) Darsel’s junior engineers
Qualifications
- 3+ years experience
- Python
- AWS
- MySQL
Skills
Required:PythonAWSMySQL
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Darsel
Chatbot teaching K12 math in developing countries
Darsel is a AI-powered math education chatbot which is designed to supplement K12 education systems in resource-constrained environments. Darsel allows students to practice math questions & do their homework through platforms like SMS, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
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