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title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Playpower Labs'
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# Senior Software Engineer at Playpower Labs

- **Company:** Playpower Labs
- **Location:** India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/playpowerlabs/ab9231e8-3e3f-41c4-aff2-ff769241a1c7

## Job description

## About PlayPower Labs

PlayPower Labs builds software for leading EdTech companies that serve millions of learners. We help our clients solve hard product and engineering problems so they can deliver better learner experiences through advanced technology, thoughtful design, and reliable execution. We’ve been fully remote since before COVID and plan to stay remote. We are US-based, with a development center in Gandhinagar, India.

## What We Believe

- We believe technology is a force multiplier for education.
- Great software can make learning more engaging, effective, personalized, and accessible for millions of learners worldwide. The future of education will be shaped by advanced online learning, AI, and education data, and we want to help build that future.
- Education data combined with AI is opening up new ways to create adaptive, personalized learning experiences. We’re here to turn those opportunities into real products that learners, educators, and EdTech companies can actually use.

## The Role

We’re looking for a high-energy full-stack engineer who wants to ship real products, not just close tickets. You’ll work with Angular/React, Java/Node.js, modern AI tools, agents, and MCPs to build fast, useful, secure software. This role is for someone who can take an idea, break it down, build it, secure it, test it, and ship it without being limited by traditional technologies. If you like moving fast, experimenting hard, and using AI as a real engineering multiplier, you’ll fit right in. You can find details on interview process [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15dmyUXx6bxNmZA3hFgEV8z0_oO3_a2M9WMNBT6MsVSU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.b8oafg9nunww).

## What You’ll Do

- Build full-stack product features using Angular/React and Java/Node.js.
- Think security-first: auth, permissions, input validation, secrets, dependencies, OWASP risks, and safe AI usage.
- Own work end to end: UI, APIs, data flows, testing, releases, and fixes.
- Build interfaces that feel clean, fast, and intuitive, not just technically correct.
- Use AI tools, coding agents, MCPs, and automation to move faster.
- Experiment with workflows for coding, debugging, refactoring, testing, documentation, and code review.
- Connect AI tools to real systems through MCPs, APIs, internal tools, and automations.
- Review both human-written and AI-generated code with sharp judgment.
- Bring energy, ideas, and momentum to a small team building real product.

## What We’re Looking For

- 2-5 years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Good with TypeScript/JavaScript, APIs, databases, Git, and modern web apps.
- Strong sense of UI/UX and care about how the product feels, not just how the code works.
- Fluent with modern AI dev tools and willing to keep experimenting as the tooling evolves.
- Experience or strong interest in AI agents, MCP servers, tool calling, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Able to guide AI, write solid prompts, validate output, and avoid leaking sensitive data.
- Solid understanding of OWASP basics, cloud security, Docker, CI/CD, and vulnerability scanning.
- Product-minded, security-aware, and comfortable moving without perfect instructions.
- Startup energy: ownership, speed, curiosity, and no “that’s not my job” attitude.

Bonus Points

- You’ve built or used MCP servers, agents, internal tools, automations, or AI-powered product features.
- You’ve used AI to improve testing, reviews, documentation, or dev velocity.

## What We Offer

Remote work, competitive pay, real ownership, space to experiment, and a small team that cares about building good products without corporate theater.

## About Playpower Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Playpower Labs creates next-generation learning products and provides software development, AI/data science, and design consulting services to large education organizations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Chandler, Arizona, USA (primary) and Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
- **Founded**: 2012 (originally started as a non-profit in 2009)
- **Founders**: Derek Lomas (CEO & Chief Learning Scientist), Kishan Patel (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Education Technology (EdTech), E-Learning, Learning Science, AI & Data Science Services
- **Target customers**: Large education organizations (B2B), schools, publishers, edtech companies; also directly serves students via own products (Math Planet)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Powering the Future of Learning” by producing best-in-class learning experiences based on cognitive science, machine learning, and human-centered design.

## Products & Services
- **Smart Paper**: AI-powered platform for paper-digital integration, enabling equitable large-scale assessments by connecting paper and digital learning. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/about)
- **NeuroUX**: Mobile platform for large-scale cognitive and psychological data collection, offering cognitive tests and ecological momentary assessments for researchers. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/about)
- **Math Planet**: Game-based math curriculum for grades 1–8, aligned with over 80 Common Core standards, designed based on cognitive neuroscience of math learning. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/)
- **Consulting Services**: Software development (LMS, online assessments, dashboards), AI & data science consulting, user research + design consulting, learning game design and gamification. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of ~$232,769 (LinkedIn estimate) and total funding of $120,000 (Pre-Seed round, June 2013)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: MacArthur Foundation (research grant), Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute; investors in Pre-Seed round not named
- **Growth Signals**: 73 employees (+11.1% YoY), 5,837 LinkedIn followers (+23.1% yearly), active hiring across technical roles, and expansion of service contracts with large education organizations

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scientific rigor**: Deep roots in academic research (Carnegie Mellon, published randomized controlled trials) and award-winning products (National STEM Game Competition, Marvel Educational App Grand Challenge)
- **Human-centered design**: Combines cognitive science, machine learning, and play-inspired design to create engaging, effective learning experiences
- **Proprietary AI technology**: Smart Paper and NeuroUX platforms offer unique paper-digital integration and mobile cognitive assessment capabilities
- **Experienced team**: 75% of workforce in technical roles, with alumni from top institutions and companies (Amazon, Oracle, Arizona State University)

## Strategic Focus
- Continue scaling consulting services for major education organizations while growing proprietary products (Smart Paper, NeuroUX)
- Deepen AI and data science capabilities to deliver actionable insights and evidence-based learning outcomes
- Expand global footprint (currently offices in USA, India, Netherlands) and strengthen remote/hybrid work culture

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Rated 4.3/5.0 on LinkedIn (43 reviews), with high marks for work-life balance (4.3), culture (4.4), and compensation (4.0)
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Offers a remote work program and flexible work schedules; employees also work from physical offices in Gandhinagar and Chandler
- **Perks**: Free snacks and drinks, flexible hours, and a focus on learning science and innovation
- **Engineering culture**: 75% of staff in technical roles; stack includes microservices, Spring Boot, Selenium, HTML5, CSS, Figma, Git, Jenkins, Jetpack, JUnit, Postman
- **Growth opportunities**: 11% headcount growth, active hiring for specialists and managers; exposure to cutting-edge AI/ML in education

## Sources
1. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/)
2. [playpowerlabs.com/about](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com](https://in.linkedin.com/company/playpower-labs)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/playpower-labs)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/playpowerlabs)

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