What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Engineer position at SchooLinks?
SchooLinks is a venture-backed ed-tech company that is changing how students explore and pursue their post-high school goals. We have a suite of over 80 tools for students and school staff including college application management, course planning, financial aid planning, personality assessments, college profiles, and many others.
We are looking for a Full-Stack Product Engineer who ships complete features autonomously. This role is for engineers who work AI-native: using tools like Claude to write specs, build, QA, document, and communicate their work across the organization.
Engineers in this role collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to validate direction, then own execution end-to-end. Strong candidates are comfortable with ambiguity, iterate quickly, and take responsibility for how their work lands with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams.
This role is for engineers based in Austin, Texas. We do not have the ability to sponsor H-1B Visas.
What you’ll do• Own features end-to-end: write specs and plan with Claude, build, QA, write release notes, create product documentation, and socialize changes with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to align on solutions, then execute autonomously once direction is set
• Ship clean, readable, and maintainable full-stack code across our Django backend and React frontend
• Use AI tools as a core part of your workflow for planning, building, and delivering
• Iterate rapidly on solutions by proposing, testing, and refining ideas
• Write tests and address technical debt to elevate codebase quality
• Design and build solutions that scale to millions of users
• Review requirements and user stories and provide timely, meaningful feedback
• Participate in on-call rotations
• 5 years of full-stack engineering experience with strong proficiency in Django, Django Rest Framework (DRF), and React
• Demonstrated ability to ship complete features autonomously, including writing your own specs
• AI-native work style: active use of AI tools such as Claude or Cursor for planning, coding, and documentation
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to navigate unclear requirements and propose solutions
• Strong written communication skills for writing specs, release notes, and product documentation
• 3 years of experience working with AWS
• 3 years of experience working with SQL databases in production
• Experience building, supporting, and planning production systems
• Experience with asynchronous task management
Nice to have
Experience with the following technologies we use regularly:
• Celery
• Redis
Domain experience or interest in the following areas is a bonus:
• Educational data (SIS, Ed-Fi, One Roster)
• Workforce development and career exploration
• Predictive analytics around educational outcomes
• 100% health care coverage
• 401K with company 2% matching
• Dental & Vision
• Parental Leave
• Subsidized gym membership
• Remote work stipend
• Annual team offsite