The world has been changing, fast. Educators and their institutions simply can’t keep up. Students are getting lost in enormous classrooms, virtual content, and workloads their teachers can’t support. Meanwhile, tuition is skyrocketing, and high-quality education is becoming less accessible. Learning requires trial, error, practice, and feedback, an active process for which video streaming simply is not enough.

Sense is building an AI platform to balance out the contradictions inherent to today’s education systems. Sense finds patterns and archetypes in students’ work, allowing us to provide students with a personalized tutoring experience, gain insights about students’ skills and enable academic institutions to scale while improving the quality of their teachings. Sense is making bigger classrooms better by enabling learning, for anyone, anywhere, making practice available and accessible.

As the Principal Engineer, you’ll be responsible for choosing and using the right tools, tech stack, and architecture to generate value for students, educators, and institutes. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is ready to take on the Principal Engineer role. You will work closely with Product and Data Science to iterate quickly, validate our solutions and create an impact on education.

• Take part in the full product life-cycle: from client requirements, through planning, design, and development, to deployment and measurement.
• Work closely with data science, product managers, and solution engineers to ensure features meet client needs.
• Own engineering tasks and quality, end-to-end. Adopt CI/CD and other best practices.
• Develop a state-of-the-art full-stack application keeping up with the latest technologies.
• Architect flexible and robust systems.
• Deliver quickly and consistently.
• Build up the startup development culture with a bias for action and critical thinking.

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• 5+ years of experience developing full-stack applications.
• 3+ years of experience with common design and architectural patterns.
• Ability to help make the best product and business decisions.
• Ability to work independently as well as cooperatively.
• Experience with writing clean, SOLID, robust applications.
• Experience with AWS.
• Self-learner who keeps up to date with tech stacks and methodologies.

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• Experience building a platform from scratch.
• Experience in a startup environment.
• Experience with backend development using Python.
• Experience with containerization and CI/CD.
• Experience with frontend development using React or other JS frameworks.

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Our AI Solution Engineers take our real-world client’s data and use AI tools to productize that data into the best possible learning experience for students. You’ll be working closely with our Product department and connecting with our clients to understand their wants and needs.  You’ll be responsible for identifying important skills for students to learn and how those are measured according to their teachers and assignments. Become an integral part of reinventing the teaching and learning of Computer Science.

• Create AI models for Universities and Colleges around the world to use
• Understand the needs, wants and pains of students, TAs and professors
• Provide insights into students’ work
• Develop scripts and tools for analytics, optimization and automation
• Communicate with Product and R&D regularly
• Deliver and present your work to clients

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• Engineering experience or a STEM degree
• Good understanding of programming principles
• Python proficiency
• Doer attitude
• Quick learner
• Great communication skills

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• Customer-facing position experience
• Experience teaching or instructing students - Computer Science extra advantage
• Python programming experience
• Scripting and automation experience

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