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title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Platform at Timely'
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# Senior Software Engineer, Platform at Timely

- **Company:** Timely
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/timely/67925705-3ee5-416b-a36f-34caae7f498b

## Job description

## Who we are

School scheduling is a hard problem, one that technology was meant to solve. Yet for decades, the master schedule has been built by hand, consuming educators’ valuable time while delivering a sub-optimal result for students. We started Timely to build the tool we wish we had when we were in schools. And today, we are changing how schools create high quality schedules for teachers and students. Timely combines groundbreaking AI technology with support from a team of expert school schedulers: saving schedulers’ time, and surfacing opportunities for leaders to unlock staff potential. Timely delivers optimized master schedules that are more efficient, accommodate diverse educator needs, and enable student access to courses and pathways that impact their lives. Our district and school partners agree: scheduling is a key opportunity for educational innovation, and that Timely is the indispensable partner in addressing the challenge. We’re experiencing exciting growth as a company, while doubling down on our mission and people-centered approach to leveraging powerful technology. We serve districts and charter school organizations across 20+ states, growing (and renewing) at rates that lead the education technology industry. This growth has been driven by our strong product-market fit, deep understanding of education, and commitment to customer success.

## About the role

This role is a Senior Software Engineer position with a strong focus on platform and infrastructure development. You and your team will own outcomes around stability, quality, maintainability, and speed of development for the Timely technical platform, encompassing infrastructure, tooling, development patterns, and critical shared libraries or components. In addition to identifying and delivering on projects that have the highest benefit for engineering team productivity and quality, you will help to up-level and onboard the entire team to best practices and establish a strong technology culture at Timely.

Key Responsibilities:

- Identify, prioritize, design and deliver technical platform solutions spanning areas like cloud infrastructure, test infrastructure & patterns, shared product libraries, security practices, authentication platform and CI/CD tooling.
- Engage with engineering stakeholders to understand pain points and opportunities to enable Timely to deliver value quickly while maintaining quality.
- Drive the investigation and decisioning on key technology decisions impacting how Timely builds and maintains software.
- Own production availability by implementing observability and recovery practices for Timely applications while providing periodic on-call support.
- Uplevel the Timely engineering team on platform technologies and engineering patterns by maintaining documentation, presenting in different venues, providing cross-team design/code reviews, and mentoring team members.
- Own the delivery of critical projects by defining scope, creating tickets, and managing delivery timelines.
- Mentor and support junior engineers, promoting a culture of collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

- 3-5+ years of experience in infrastructure and platform engineering and comfort with the following (or equivalent) technologies: AWS, Terraform, MongoDB, Python, CI/CD via Github Actions.
- Ability to design and develop solutions full-stack to deliver value for the engineering team and wider business, including in the Frontend when necessary.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially in cross-functional environments.
- Commitment to continuous improvement: seeking out and welcoming code reviews, pairing, and collaborative problem-solving.
- Experience working in agile environments and familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Pytest).
- Experience and comfort operating in a fast startup environment and all that entails: strong ownership, self direction, prompt delivery of value to the customer & learnings for the business.
- Scaling and cyber security experience is preferable.
- Prior experience in EdTech is a plus but not required.
- Fully remote role with a preference for candidates based in NY or Boston.

## Why Join Us

- Work with an exceptional team tackling meaningful challenges in education.
- Be part of a growing, financially healthy company with a proven product.
- Enjoy comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, vision and life insurance, unlimited PTO, and professional development opportunities including free access to online learning programs

## About Timely

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Timely provides an AI-powered K-12 master scheduling platform that helps school districts build precise, optimized schedules aligned with their priorities in a fraction of the traditional time.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup)
- **Headquarters**: United States (Remote-first)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Paymon Rouhanifard (Co-Founder & CEO), Eleanor Laurans (Co-Founder), Faisal Anwar (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: K-12 Education Technology (EdTech)
- **Target customers**: School districts, school leaders, counselors, and district administrators (B2B/Government)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To unlock time, money, and student opportunity by transforming the master scheduling process for K-12 schools.

## Products & Services
- **[Timely Scheduling Platform]**: An AI-optimized SaaS platform that evaluates millions of schedule combinations based on district-defined priorities, constraints, and student needs. It provides systemwide visibility, identifies staffing efficiencies (e.g., excess FTEs), and ensures high rates of complete student schedules. The platform is supported by hands-on educator support and expert guidance from former district leaders.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Not publicly disclosed; company is in early-stage growth.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed on their site; the company is backed by a team with deep K-12 experience.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Serves 22 states, 90+ districts, and over 500,000 students [timelyschools.com](https://www.timelyschools.com/).
  - Notable district impact: Mesquite ISD (17 campuses) used Timely to face a $24M shortfall, reallocating 2 FTEs per campus and reinvesting $2.2M [timelyschools.com](https://www.timelyschools.com/).
  - Team of 25 total employees as of recent reporting [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/timely-timelyschoolscom).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain expertise**: Nearly 80% of the team are former educators, including the CEO (former superintendent) and co-founder (former district CFO). The product is built by people who have firsthand experience with the scheduling problem [timelyschools.com](https://www.timelyschools.com/about/).
- **AI built for K-12, not generic**: The platform is trained on the real logic of district master schedules, not a one-size-fits-all algorithm.
- **Human + AI model**: Combines powerful AI optimization with hands-on support from former educators, making adoption easier for districts.
- **Proven ROI**: Demonstrated ability to save districts millions of dollars while improving student schedule completion rates (e.g., Mesquite ISD saw student schedule completion jump from 70% to over 90%) [timelyschools.com](https://www.timelyschools.com/).

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Deepening the platform's ability to handle complex constraints (e.g., IEP requirements, staffing equity) across more districts.
- **Market penetration**: Growing from 90+ districts to a larger national footprint, especially in states with complex scheduling needs.
- **Building the team**: Actively hiring across engineering, product, and school success roles to scale the platform and support model.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: The company is explicitly built by and for former educators; nearly 80% of the team has a K-12 background. Employees are passionate about improving student outcomes and reducing administrative burden.
- **Remote-first**: The company operates a fully remote workspace across the United States [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/timely-timelyschoolscom).
- **Founding team with deep credibility**: Led by a former superintendent (Paymon Rouhanifard), a former district CFO (Eleanor Laurans), and a former Head of Engineering at Teachers Pay Teachers (Faisal Anwar) [timelyschools.com](https://www.timelyschools.com/team).
- **Small but growing team**: With 25 employees, new hires will have significant ownership and impact on product direction and company culture.
- **Focus on engineering quality**: The CTO is a startup veteran who led engineering teams serving millions of users, indicating a strong engineering culture.

## Sources
1. [timelyschools.com](https://www.timelyschools.com/)
2. [timelyschools.com](https://www.timelyschools.com/about/)
3. [timelyschools.com](https://www.timelyschools.com/team/)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/timely-timelyschoolscom)
5. [timelyschools.com](https://www.timelyschools.com/careers/)

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