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# Contractor: Senior Software Engineer at Newsela

- **Company:** Newsela
- **Location:** Argentina / Brazil / Chile / Colombia / Costa Rica / Ecuador / Mexico
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsela/jobs/8249272

## Job description

Why you’ll love this role:

- Deliver high-quality work on time, leveraging AI tools to accelerate velocity without sacrificing craft.
- Own feature delivery end-to-end, from scoping and design input through implementation and release, with minimal oversight.
- Craft well-tested software that meets a high bar for quality, using AI-assisted development practices where they add value and exercising judgment where they don't.
- Build and validate AI-integrated features with sound engineering judgment, applying appropriate evaluation practices to LLM-powered and AI-assisted functionality.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, and Product Design to refine ambiguous work into clearly defined, valuable deliverables.
- Maintain reliable systems by applying best practices for observability, quality, and incident response, and actively use AI tooling to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster.
- Support production releases, ensuring your team's systems are deployment-ready and stable post-release.

Additional Role Details:

- This contract position is paid a monthly rate (USD).
- This person must be located in one of the following countries: Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica.
- Please note that given the nature of the position, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.
- The contract is estimated to last 12 months with the potential for extension, though an extension is not guaranteed.

All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check as part of our pre-employment process.

Why you’ll love working at Newsela:

- Work From Home: We are a fully remote company!
- Make A Difference: No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers!

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

#LI-Remote

## About Newsela

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Newsela is an education technology company that provides a content and assessment platform with differentiated, standards-aligned instructional resources for K-12 schools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Matthew Gross and Dan Cogan-Drew

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Education technology (E-Learning Providers)
- **Target customers**: B2B (U.S. K-12 school districts); teachers and administrators are primary users; also serves individual teachers (freemium model).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Meaningful classroom learning for every student."

## Products & Services
- **[Newsela ELA](https://newsela.com/)**: Differentiated fiction and nonfiction texts, novel studies, and curriculum complements to support knowledge-rich literacy instruction. (SaaS)
- **[Newsela Social Studies](https://newsela.com/)**: Primary sources, biographies, current events, and interactive multimedia to support critical thinking and diverse perspectives. (SaaS)
- **[Newsela Science](https://newsela.com/)**: Engaging videos, standards-aligned texts, lessons, and activities to support real-world science connections. (SaaS)
- **[Formative by Newsela](https://newsela.com/)**: A real-time instruction and assessment platform that unifies district assessments and delivers standards-aligned insights for administrators and teachers. (SaaS, acquired in 2023)
- **[Newsela Writing / Luna AI](https://newsela.com/)**: AI-powered, rubric-aligned writing feedback delivered in real time to support writing practice across the curriculum. (AI tool)
- **Schoolytics** (acquired): Student data unification platform providing role-based dashboards and actionable insights. (SaaS)
- **Generation Genius** (acquired February 2025): Science and math video content for K-8.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company). Total funding of $172.2M as of 2021.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $50M (source: LinkedIn company data). Over 25 million users (students and teachers) and used in ~90% of U.S. K-12 schools.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: TCV (lead Series C & D), Franklin Templeton (lead Series D), Kleiner Perkins (lead Series B), Owl Ventures (lead Series A), NewSchools Venture Fund & Kapor Capital (Seed).
- **Growth Signals**: 12.6% year-over-year headcount growth (to 386 employees); continuous product expansion via acquisitions (Formative, Schoolytics, Generation Genius); launch of Luna AI; 2025 CODiE Awards (Winner for Newsela Writing, Finalist for ELA and Social Studies).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Differentiated content at scale**: Library of 18,000+ texts and videos from 175+ content providers, available at five reading levels – enabling personalized learning without compromising standards alignment.
- **Entrenched in U.S. schools**: 90% of K-12 schools use Newsela, creating a strong network effect and switching costs.
- **Comprehensive product suite**: Covers ELA, social studies, science, formative assessment, and data analytics under one roof, reducing tool fragmentation for districts.
- **AI-powered tools**: Luna AI provides real-time writing feedback, saving teachers time while differentiating instruction.
- **Research-backed efficacy**: ESSA Tier II studies show product accelerates learning in ELA and social studies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion of AI capabilities**: Deeper integration of Luna AI across the product portfolio to automate lesson planning, activity design, and text differentiation.
- **Product integration**: Unifying acquired companies (Formative, Schoolytics, Generation Genius) into a seamless platform for districts.
- **Market penetration**: Growing international presence (currently operating in 13 countries) and deepening relationships with large school districts.
- **Supplemental curriculum leadership**: Positioning Newsela as the go-to source for engaging, standards-aligned supplemental materials across core subjects.

## Why Work Here
- **Fully remote**: Newsela is a fully remote team across the United States with some roles in Latin America.
- **Culture and mission**: Emphasis on work that makes a tangible impact on K-12 education – "inspire a generation of learners, support and empower teachers."
- **Benefits**: Unlimited time off, generous family leave (maternity, paternity, adoption), wellness resources (mind & body discounts, access to world-class medical experts including pet coverage), and learning stipends.
- **Engineering/Product culture**: Open roles for data engineers, analytics engineers, site reliability engineers, and product managers. The company values creative, passionate employees "with quick minds and warm hearts."
- **Growth opportunities**: 30 active job postings across sales, customer success, product, and technology; 12.6% annual headcount growth indicates a scaling organization.

## Sources
1. [newsela.com/careers](https://newsela.com/careers)
2. [newsela.com/company](https://newsela.com/company)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsela](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsela)
4. [linkedin.com/company/newsela](https://www.linkedin.com/company/newsela)
5. [newsela.com](https://newsela.com/)

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