Senior Software Engineer

Who we are

CollegeVine is an AI company with a mission to bring lifelong guidance to the next generation. Facilitated by Ivy, CollegeVineʼs AI advisor, the platform guides millions of students with personalized advice and actionable insights and empowers students to navigate their admissions journey proactively. Meanwhile, we are also transforming recruitment at colleges, universities, and other institutions. By leveraging advanced AI agents, proprietary data, and an extensive network of millions of high school students, CollegeVine enables these institutions to hyper-personalize their recruitment activities at scale and across multiple modalities.

About the role:

As CollegeVine scales, we’re looking to add talented engineers focused on solving real-world problems to help us build new products and scale our existing systems. In particular, you'll work directly with CollegeVine's leadership to build new AI agents and equip CollegeVine's existing agents with new capabilities. On CollegeVine’s engineering team, each engineer owns their work from idea into production while focusing on pulling business value as early in our development process as possible. This means small batches, CI/CD, deploying to production multiple times per-day, and rapid iteration as our ideas become reality for our customers.

You’ll work on a product squad alongside designers, domain experts, and other engineers to solve the correct problems and deliver our guidance technology in a safe and reliable way.

This role is fully remote with a strong preference for candidates located in the US or Canada.

Responsibilities:

• Use the latest tools and research in applied machine learning, LLMs, and AI agents to enhance our products and create delightful user experiences
• Own problems end-to-end, deliver results quickly, and be willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done
• Partner with subject matter experts across the company including security, product, design, and customer success
• Focus on solving the problems at hand, not just writing code (although that’s typically how CollegeVine delivers solutions)
• Hone your craft by writing performant and maintainable code to extend the CollegeVine platform by working in (at least) Purescript and Ruby

Requirements:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience (including internships)
• Proficiency with relational databases, modern IasS platforms, (Javascript || Ruby), and MVC web frameworks like Ruby on Rails. We also make heavy use of Purescript, so experience or an interest in learning typed-functional programming is necessary.
• You see yourself first and foremost as a pragmatic problem solver who just happens to write code
• Have a humble attitude, a love for learning, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed
• Care deeply about the end user experience and take pride in building products to solve customer needs

Why you'll love working at CollegeVine

• Enjoy actually meaningful work: Spare yourself the dread of having to do mental gymnastics about your company's mission by working on something that's high impact and clearly beneficial for society.
• Iterate quickly and see the impact of your decisions and hard work: You'll find that the teammates who you serve are not only appreciative, and also celebrate your ideas and innovations.
• Be part of a strong consumer brand: We've been closing the guidance gap in the United States since 2013 and have one of the most valuable brands in the space. Mention you work on CollegeVine to any college-bound family and see their faces light up.
• Experience remote work at its best: We claim to do remote right and can't wait to talk to you about it!

CollegeVine was originally founded in 2016 in Cambridge, MA and reaches over 20 million families annually in search of guidance. Our roots are in delivering near- peer mentorship at scale, which has since evolved to delivering lifelong guidance through AI and a vast professional network. We have raised over $66m in venture funding from dedicated investors such as Morningside Technology Ventures (Xiaomi, TikTok), the founding partner of 5Y Capital, Fidelity, University Ventures, and more. In 2020, after years of being a remote-friendly company, CollegeVine became a fully remote company centered on Eastern Time with a diverse cast of team members based predominantly in the United States, but also around the world.