Open Roles
Software Engineer
Lumi
Lumi is the K-12 writing and literacy platform founded by Colin Kaepernick. Students plan, draft, revise, and publish real writing with an AI guide that coaches instead of writing for them, and teachers and district leaders see growth as it happens. We work with 15 districts and growing. We are a small, senior team, remote across the US, and we hire people who want to own a problem end to end.
Responsibilities
– Own features from start to finish
– Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and customer success
– Raise our technical bar, from core architecture to developer experience
What we value
– Velocity: you build at breakneck speed
– Practicality: you balance speed vs perfection
– Autonomy, but not solo: you’re self-sufficient but engage the team when ideas or alignment matter
– Friendliness: you’re enjoyable to discuss and debate with
– Product sense: you connect technical decisions to user and business outcomes
– Elite: you operate at a high standard and inspire others to this same level
Our tech stack
Typescript, React, Node, AWS
Compensation
$170,000 - $230,000 salary with equity and benefits
Location
Remote in the US with quarterly team trips