--- title: 'Senior Backend Engineer at Level' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-backend-engineer-level-austin-8q7wzbb1myqn' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-16' --- # Senior Backend Engineer at Level - **Company:** Level - **Location:** Austin, TX - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-01-09 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/level/538c0fe2-504d-45e9-8ae6-2b44de217418 ## Job description About: Level is a learning technology company dedicated to helping students build real academic and life skills with confidence and joy. We combine proven curriculum principles with world class interactive design to make meaningful practice something students want to come back to, not something they struggle through. We support what teachers, schools, and parents are already doing by increasing student engagement with high quality, standards aligned practice that reinforces classroom learning. That’s why we’re building: For students: Rewarding and motivating learning experiences that meet students where they are to build real academic proficiency. For educators: Tools that fit naturally into instruction and help students stay engaged while reducing teacher workload. For parents: Activities that help your kid catch up or get ahead, build confidence, and minimize homework battles, whether learning at school or at home. We are committed to helping every person maximize their potential and live a life of meaning. It’s a difficult problem that requires brilliant people and tremendous effort over time. If you want to use your skills to make a difference for the world, we're seeking a Backend Engineer (senior or above) to develop functionality and help scale our platform. You’ll be at the core of the team building and operating our online platform powering all of Level’s products. What You Will Do: - Design and build robust, scalable backend systems, APIs, and microservices for our platform. - Build highly available, robust, secure, sustainable, and maintainable tech - Drive analysis and improvement of services' quality and performance - Implement and advocate for best practices in testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting. - Own aspects of innovative feature and/or system development, considering usability, scalability, security, and performance Need to Have: - 5+ years of experience developing developing successful, highly-available online services. - Experience building and deploying services into cloud environments and infrastructure as code. - Strong experience with backend languages, primarily Kotlin. - Experience implementing GitOps approach - managing infrastructure, deployments, CI/CD, live operations and documentation as a code. - Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Redis, DynamoDB). - Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver new features and improve existing ones with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and security. - Knowledge of system design, distributed systems, caching strategies, and asynchronous processing. - Experience in growth software/saas, edtech, or high-scale B2C applications such as streaming or e-commerce Nice to Have: - Experience in industries with compliance requirements (e.g., finance, healthcare, education). - Familiarity with player data models, real-time services, and telemetry/event tracking. - Interest in tech, education, and child-safe technology development. ## About Level ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Level is a learning technology company building engaging, standards-aligned digital practice experiences for K-8 students to build real academic skills and confidence. - **Entity Type**: Private (Early Stage) - **Headquarters**: Not publicly available - **Founded**: Not publicly available (early stage, piloting in 2026) - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - Primary industry: Education Technology (EdTech) - Target customers: B2B (schools and districts) and B2C (parents), with a focus on K-8 students - Mission or purpose statement: “We are committed to helping every person maximize their potential and live a life of meaning” ([level.me](https://level.me/index.html)) ## Products & Services - **Level Learning Platform**: A digital practice platform that combines proven curriculum principles with world-class interactive design to make meaningful, standards-aligned practice engaging for students. Designed to support teachers, schools, and parents by reinforcing classroom learning. - **For Students**: Rewarding and motivating learning experiences that meet students where they are to build real academic proficiency. - **For Educators**: Tools that fit naturally into instruction, help students stay engaged, and reduce teacher workload. - **For Parents**: Activities to help children catch up or get ahead, build confidence, and minimize homework battles. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (early-stage, pre-revenue) - **Key Metric**: Currently in active development; pilot testing scheduled for 2026 - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available - **Growth Signals**: Early-stage company building carefully and in partnership with educators, with pilots beginning in 2026 to study outcomes before broad release. ## Competitive Advantages - **Pedagogical Rigor**: Team includes educators and learning scientists, ensuring content is built on proven curriculum principles. - **World-Class Design**: The team has built some of the most engaging interactive experiences globally, applying that expertise to education. - **Outcomes-Focused**: Pilots are designed to study outcomes and strengthen tools based on real classroom feedback before scaling. - **Purpose-Driven Mission**: Deep commitment to using skills “for good” and making a meaningful impact in education. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Active development and preparation for 2026 pilot testing with select K-8 subjects. - **Long-term goal**: Support lifelong learning, starting with K-8 and expanding over time. - **Partnership approach**: Seeking educational partners who share a focus on outcomes and empowering educators. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven Culture**: A team of educators, learning scientists, and creators who feel a “deep responsibility to use our powers for good” and are committed to solving a difficult, meaningful problem. - **Collaborative Environment**: Emphasis on working together to make a difference; hiring for roles like Engineering and Data. - **Remote-First**: Jobs listed as remote, offering flexibility. - **Impact Opportunity**: Early-stage company where every hire can shape the product and mission from the ground up. - **Values**: Commitment to helping every person maximize their potential and live a life of meaning—starting with the team itself. ## Sources 1. [level.me](https://level.me/index.html) 2. 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