Contract Developer: TypeScript Backend

## About the Role

We're hiring a **contract developer** with working software development experience. Day to day you'll write **TypeScript** services backed by **Prisma** and PostgreSQL: production APIs, multi-tenant data models, and integrations with the external systems our customers already use.

This is a hands-on role. You'll work with the existing team to ship features end to end.

## Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain REST APIs and product features in TypeScript
• Design and maintain schemas, migrations, and queries with **Prisma** and **PostgreSQL**, including multi-tenant data
• Integrate third-party APIs such as identity providers, campus systems, payments, storage, email, and AI
• Own auth, access control, tenant isolation, audit trails, data protection, performance, and error handling
• Write unit and integration tests, ship features end to end, and support CI/CD, deploys, observability, and production issues

## Required Qualifications

• At least **3 years** building web applications
• Comfortable in **small, results-driven teams**
• Strong production experience with **TypeScript** backends (Node.js)
• Solid **Prisma** (or similar ORM) experience with **PostgreSQL**: schema design, migrations, query patterns, multi-tenant modeling
• Experience designing and versioning **REST APIs** used by web clients and external partners
• Solid grip on **auth**: JWT, sessions, RBAC/ABAC, OAuth2/OIDC
• Practical **automated testing** (Jest or similar) at unit and integration levels
• Comfort with Git, CI/CD, and shipping to the cloud
• Clear writing and speaking: you can walk through a design and its tradeoffs
• Available for **contract** work and fine collaborating async

## Nice to Have

• **Startup** experience
• Built something **0→1**, or owned a feature from idea through production
• Institutional SSO (SAML / OIDC)
• Background jobs / queues, Redis, event-driven patterns
• **AWS** and IaC (Terraform or similar)
• NestJS, Fastify, or similar Node frameworks
• Payments and PCI-aware design
• **React** / frontend experience
• **EdTech** or another regulated data domain

## Interview Process

**Round 1: Project walkthrough (45 min)**
You'll walk one of our engineers through a project you've built. We want to see how you approach problems, hear you talk through solutions you've shipped, and give you time to ask about how we work and what engineering looks like here.

**Round 2: Meet with the CEO**
A conversation about your background, how you work, and what you're looking for next. Good chance to learn more about the company, the product, and whether this is a mutual fit.

Pay: $60,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule

Work Location: Remote