Staff Engineer (AI-Native) (Full time contractor)

**Overview:** We are looking for a Staff Engineer in LATAM to join the engineering team! In this role, you will set technical direction across both front-end and back-end systems, helping shape the architecture, performance, reliability, and user experience of our learning platform. You will provide hands-on technical leadership across squads, partner closely with Product and Design, and drive the development of scalable, secure-by-default, AI-powered customer experiences. This is a high-impact role for an engineer who can move fluidly across the stack, from high-traffic user interfaces to high-scale services, while mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across the organization. **About Nerdy:** At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) -  the company behind Varsity Tutors - we’re redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI™ platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale. We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you’d bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win. Fortune favors the bold. Join us. **How we compete:** * **AI-Native at every level**From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you’re not wielding AI, you’re not done. * **Entrepreneurial velocity**Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die. * **Free-market rigor** Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside. * **Full-stack ownership** You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug. * **Reward for contribution**Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both ***what*** you achieve and ***how***you achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded. * **Relentless exploration**Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way. * **Is Apolitical**You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes. If you’re a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition, personal responsibility, and the chance to redefine how the world learns - while continually stretching the limits of what generative AI can do - come do the most ambitious and rewarding work of your career here. Learn more at[nerdy.com](http://nerdy.com/). **Nerdy’s shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy:** * [Q4-2025 Shareholder Letter](https://s206.q4cdn.com/118732467/files/doc_financials/2025/q4/Nerdy-4Q2025-Shareholder-Letter.pdf) * [Q3-2025 Shareholder Letter](https://s206.q4cdn.com/118732467/files/doc_financials/2025/q3/Nerdy-3Q2025-Shareholder-Letter-1.pdf) * [Q2-2025 Shareholder Letter](https://s206.q4cdn.com/118732467/files/doc_financials/2025/q2/Nerdy-2Q2025-Shareholder-Letter.pdf) **Responsibilities** * Technical Leadership: Serve as the technical point of reference for the squad and broader engineering team, ensuring best practices in architecture, performance optimization, and accessibility standards are upheld. * Solution Design: Lead the design and architectural discussions for systems, making pivotal decisions on frameworks, state management patterns, component architecture, and design systems. * Code Quality: Advocate for and ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code. Conduct regular code reviews and provide mentorship to team members. * Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, provide technical insights, and ensure the timely delivery of features. * Strategy and Vision: Contribute to the engineering department's strategy and vision, bringing innovative ideas to improve our customer-facing experiences. * Problem Solving: Address complex technical challenges, innovate solutions, and optimize existing systems for scalability and performance. * Team Development: Mentor and develop team members, helping them to grow in their technical roles and careers. * AI Enablement: Leverage AI-native tools and approaches to improve development speed, product capabilities, and engineering effectiveness across the software lifecycle. **Qualifications:** * Minimum of 10 years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and evolving complex, high-scale systems and customer-facing applications. * Strong full-stack expertise, including domain in: Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript Backend: Javascript, Java, Golang * Explicit mentoring of senior-level engineers regularly, leading to results. * Significant experience in AWS-based cloud architecture environments. * In-depth knowledge of modern software engineering practices, design patterns, and architectures. * Experienced with AI-native tools that enhance productivity and speed (Cursor, [Make.com](http://make.com/), Supabase, Netlify, Claude Code, n8n, Firecrawl, ChatGPT, Grok, Bolt, Vercel, etc). * Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Experience designing high-traffic web applications and scalable distributed services. * Demonstrated experience in collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. * Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. * A strong owner willing to roll up their sleeves. This role includes coding and reviewing the code of others. * Ability to implement customer-facing solutions that solve the customers' true needs with exceptional user experiences. * Nerdy is an apolitical company focused solely on helping people learn, and we achieve the most when united in this mission. **Unleash Your Potential at Nerdy:** At Nerdy, you'll earn your success through meritocracy and exceptional outcomes. Our benefits reward performance and initiative: * **Competitive USD Compensation:** Enjoy a market-leading rate paid in U.S. dollars. * **100% Remote (Home Country Only):** Work from anywhere in your home country—no relocation required, no borders crossed. * **Flexible Time Off:** Our flexible PTO lets you recharge on your own terms and when you need it the most. * **Local Holiday Pay:** We honor your nation’s official holidays with paid time off—celebrate what matters to you. * **Continuous Learning:** Get a free, all-inclusive learning membership for you and your household—including 1-on-1 tutoring hours, unlimited on-demand classes, and access to our full suite of learning products and services. * **Supercharge with AI:** Gain exclusive access to cutting-edge AI tools that boost your productivity, making you feel almost super-human (cape not included). * **Feedback-Rich, Collaborative Culture:** Tap into regular training, peer reviews, and a team that treats every team member as a vital collaborator and owner in our success. * **Make a Global Impact:** Your expertise fuels an innovative platform used by learners around the world—be part of something transformative. **The Bottom Line:** If you're driven by impact, energized by ownership, and excited to help shape what’s next, you’ll thrive here. We move fast, think big, and reward those who deliver. This isn’t a traditional corporate environment - it’s a place to do the most meaningful work of your career.