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title: 'Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Services & Configuration at Seesaw'
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# Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Services & Configuration at Seesaw

- **Company:** Seesaw
- **Location:** Mexico
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-25
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/seesaw/jobs/4722642006

## Job description

Build foundational platform capabilities on a dedicated, director-led team with high technical ownership and company-wide impact.

## ABOUT SEESAW

Seesaw helps elementary educators deliver joyful, inclusive learning experiences through interactive instruction, digital portfolios, and connections between teachers, students, and families. Our mission is to provide every elementary student with joyful and connected learning experiences that lay the foundation for success in life.

## YOUR TEAM

You will join a small, dedicated group of senior engineers assembled specifically for one of Seesaw's most critical technology initiatives. This is not a business-as-usual maintenance assignment: the team has a focused mandate to make consequential improvements to the foundations of our production platform. The group reports directly to our Director of Platforms, who will serve as the team's engineering manager and lead the work day to day. Working closely with experienced Core Platform engineers, you'll have meaningful technical ownership, direct access to engineering leadership, and the opportunity to shape systems that support millions of educators, students, and families. Our emphasis is on thoughtful architecture, hands-on execution, and incremental delivery without compromising security or reliability.

## YOUR ROLE

We're looking for a senior backend engineer to evolve and build the internal platform services, especially configuration, that make a sophisticated SaaS product easier to operate and extend. This role calls for a mix of backend architecture, configuration and stateful workflow design, systems integration, and hands-on execution. You'll own technically complex capabilities with wide impact across engineering, spanning build-time configuration, runtime configuration, and customer-managed settings.

## YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

- Design and implement scalable backend services, internal APIs, and durable operational workflows.
- Evolve a layered configuration model spanning build-time, runtime, and customer-managed settings, with clear precedence, ownership, and storage, including migrating legacy settings code onto it incrementally.
- Build and evolve runtime configuration and feature-flag capabilities with safe rollout, validation, auditability, and rollback.
- Model state transitions, configuration, orchestration, and recovery paths for critical platform capabilities.
- Design clear interfaces between shared platform capabilities and product-facing services, including customer-facing settings and preferences.
- Apply sound authentication, authorization, auditability, and secure-by-default engineering practices.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, client, and application teams to deliver production-ready systems with tests, documentation, and observability.

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 8+ years of professional backend engineering experience, including technical ownership of complex platform services; equivalent demonstrated experience considered.
- Strong Python and AWS proficiency and proven experience designing dependable production APIs.
- Hands-on experience designing or migrating configuration, feature-flag, or settings systems used across many services or customers.
- Experience building long-running or asynchronous workflows with clear state management and recovery behavior.
- Understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, consistency, security boundaries, and operational correctness.
- Ability to simplify ambiguous system requirements into clean interfaces and incremental implementation plans.
- Strong independent delivery, clear communication, and comfort owning consequential work in a small, director-led engineering team.

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience building internal developer platforms, provisioning services, orchestration engines, or administrative systems.
- Experience with web or mobile build configuration, environment-specific builds, or remote configuration for client apps.
- Declarative workflows, reconciliation patterns, or event-driven systems.
- TypeScript or lightweight internal tooling experience.

## WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

Configuration is consistent, auditable, and safe to change across builds, environments, and customers; important platform workflows become repeatable, traceable, and recoverable; and other engineering teams gain dependable interfaces.

## CONTRACT ENGAGEMENT

This is a senior, hands-on individual-contributor contract opportunity with a dedicated team led by the Director of Platforms. Engagement duration, location/working arrangement, and commercial terms will be discussed during recruiting.

A note on language: Our team collaborates daily with US-based colleagues in English, so please submit your resume and application materials in English. We’re unable to review applications submitted in other languages.

Seesaw values diverse perspectives and welcomes qualified candidates from all backgrounds. We aim to build inclusive teams that reflect the educators, students, and families we serve.

Our company participates in E-Verify.

## About Seesaw

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Seesaw is an all-in-one elementary learning experience platform that captures authentic learning as it happens and connects teachers, students, and families in a single, privacy-first environment.  
- **Entity Type**: Private (total funding $188M; last round: Private Equity led by Providence Equity Partners in 2021)  
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States  
- **Founded**: 2015  
- **Founders**: Not publicly available  

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: EdTech (elementary education platform)  
- **Target customers**: B2B (schools, districts, teachers) and B2C (families) – serving 65,000+ schools in 150+ countries  
- **Mission**: “To provide every elementary student with a joyful and connected learning journey that lays the foundation for success in life.” [seesaw.com](https://seesaw.com/join-our-team/)

## Products & Services
- **Seesaw Platform**: SaaS learning experience platform that combines teaching, student portfolios (photos, videos, drawing, voice), assessment, and family communication. Includes teacher-led AI for quick activity creation. Built for districts with strong security/privacy (SOC 2, GDPR, FERPA, COPPA, iKeepSafe, Digital Promise AI certification). Awarded 2025 CODiE Award for Best Education Platform and Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence 2025. [seesaw.com](https://seesaw.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed  
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of ~$75M (LinkedIn estimate) and 25M+ monthly users across 65,000+ schools  
- **Total Funding**: $188M – Private Equity round of $175M (Oct 2021) led by Providence Equity Partners, plus a $8M Series A (Feb 2018) from 3 undisclosed investors [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/seesaw-learning)  
- **Notable Investors**: Providence Equity Partners  
- **Growth Signals**: Used in 150+ countries; 25M+ users; headcount of 210 (down 8.3% YoY) – indicates a mature stage with focused hiring in sales (APAC, MENA) and engineering (Frontend, Security) [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/seesaw/jobs/4669042006)

## Competitive Advantages
- **All-in-one platform** – replaces the need for separate tools for instruction, portfolios, assessment, and parent communication  
- **Strong privacy & compliance** – certified for FERPA, COPPA, GDPR, SOC 2, ISTE Seal; built for school district trust  
- **Teacher-led AI** – gives educators control while speeding up content creation, differentiating from fully automated AI platforms  
- **Elementary focus** – purpose-built for young learners, emphasizing joyful, visible learning rather than screen time  
- **Deep district adoption** – embedded in 65,000 schools creates switching costs and network effects  

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding internationally (current job postings for Customer Success in Qatar, Sales in APAC/MENA, Professional Learning in Saudi Arabia and Hawaii)  
- Enhancing AI capabilities while maintaining teacher control and safety certifications  
- Strengthening district-level relationships through compliance and data control features  
- Balancing growth with profitability (stable revenue of $75M, slight headcount reduction)  

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Most roles are remote; monthly workspace stipend for phone/internet. [seesaw.com](https://seesaw.com/join-our-team/)  
- **Work-life balance**: Flexible PTO, “Mindfulness First Fridays” (a dedicated weekday off each month), wellness activities  
- **Professional development**: $500 annual budget for learning and growth  
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical/dental/vision (including orthodontia), 401(k) with 3% company match, paid parental leave (partnered with Pumpspotting), remote engagement events  
- **Engineering culture**: QA engineers are included in early product discussions; opinions are respected and ownership is shared across the team. Teammate quote: “Everyone, regardless of their position in the company, shares ownership of our product and mission.”  

## Sources
1. [seesaw.com](https://seesaw.com/join-our-team/) – Culture, benefits, mission, values  
2. [seesaw.com](https://seesaw.com/) – Product overview, certifications, awards  
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/seesaw-learning) – Company details, funding, revenue, headcount, recent departures  
4. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/seesaw/jobs/4669042006) – Open job roles example  
5. [seesaw.com](https://seesaw.com/seesaw-leadership/) – Leadership page (source provided)

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