Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Senior Software Engineer for the Pear Deck Learning team, working on a full-stack suite that supports real-time lesson experiences for teachers and students.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and continuously improve features across the Pear Deck Learning suite.
• Develop backend services in Node.js (Express) and Go (gRPC microservices) for real-time classroom workflows.
• Build frontend experiences using React 18 and TypeScript with related UI and state tooling.
• Design and implement REST and gRPC APIs for service communication.
• Work across data stores and event systems (SQL/NoSQL, caching, search, queues, pub/sub) and optimize queries.
• Build and operate real-time infrastructure using WebSockets, SSE, and Firebase Realtime Database.
• Ship and operate services on AWS and GCP; participate in production on-call rotation.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer on SaaS or customer-facing products.
• Strong TypeScript and modern React experience (hooks, React 18, Vite or similar tooling).
• Production experience with Node.js and/or Go on the backend, including concurrency and async processing.
• Experience designing REST and/or gRPC APIs for high-throughput systems.
• SQL proficiency (MySQL or PostgreSQL), including schema design and query optimization.
• Experience building/operating real-time features (WebSockets, SSE, or Firebase-style realtime databases) at meaningful scale.
• Strong written communication and ability to work with partial US time-zone overlap.

Details

• Position based in India and works closely with US-based product and engineering teams.
• On-call rotation for production support.