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title: 'Software Engineer, Backend at Seesaw'
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# Software Engineer, Backend at Seesaw

- **Company:** Seesaw
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/seesaw/jobs/4708763006

## Job description

About Us:

Trusted and loved by 25 million educators, students, and families worldwide, Seesaw is the world’s leading elementary learning experience company, offering an award-winning platform and a suite of digital curriculum products for teachers to deliver joyful, accessible instruction.  Through interactive lessons, digital portfolios, and two-way communication features, Seesaw keeps everyone in the learning loop by providing continuous visibility into the student's learning experience to support and celebrate their learning.

Our Mission:

Seesaw’s mission is to provide every elementary student with joyful and connected learning experiences that lay the foundation for success in life.

Your Team:

Seesaw provides a unique opportunity to impact the lives and learning of millions of students, educators, and parents in the US and across the world. The Core Systems team sits at the heart of the technology that powers the millions of interactions with our product every day, ensuring that the platform is reliable, available, performs well, and contributes meaningfully to learning in the classroom. The team is small and covers a broad surface area, so for high-performing and independent developers there is a vast potential for ownership and upward mobility by demonstrating high impact with their efforts. We value impact over effort, and work hard to preserve real work-life balance through our team culture and Seesaw’s unique benefits.

Your Role:

A Senior Engineer on the Core Systems team is expected to have a deep understanding of backend development and infrastructure at scale. This means expertise with the implementation of HTTP APIs, interaction of API code with data storage layers, infrastructure provisioning, and a thorough grasp on how software goes from being built by dozens of developers, tested, shipped, and run at scale with rock-solid reliability.

Your Responsibilities:

- Modify, diagnose, and change code in our Python HTTP backend, which runs on Tornado and backed by data stored in Dynamo, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
- Contribute to our infrastructure-as-code repo, which is responsible for provisioning resources in AWS.
- Reason about distributed systems to drive good technical decision-making.
- Own technical work from the early stages of inception, to implementation, to production monitoring and alerting.
- Export best practices around code authoring, tool usage, and observability to other engineering teams at Seesaw.
- Ensure the security and reliability of Seesaw's platform, proactively identifying and addressing potential vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks.
- Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost-effectiveness, leveraging best practices in resource management
- Help develop a strong technical roadmap and engineering culture through design proposals, industry engagement, and more
- Partner with senior team members, product managers, and other key stakeholders to drive strategic initiatives and align infrastructure development with business objectives.

Your Requirements:

- 7+ years experience with backend development - durable systems-level thinking will always trump specific language experience.
- Thorough understanding of the mechanics of distributed systems - things like eventual consistency, fan-in fan-out patterns, backpressure, etc.
- Familiarity with AWS core services (EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, ECS/EKS) or similar cloud experience
- Proficient with CI/CD pipelines, preferably Github Actions
- Self-starter with an ability to execute independently, knowing when to stop and seek more information and when to forge ahead and boldly own your vision.
- Proven experience owning and operating the infrastructure that runs software at a high scale (think billions of incoming requests per month)

Compensation & Benefits:

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry. Salary is just one part of our total compensation package that includes perks & benefits, and development opportunities at Seesaw. Individual pay decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity relative to other Seesawers. It is our expectation that the majority of candidates who are offered roles at Seesaw will land well within our salary ranges based on these factors.

The annual hiring base salary for this position is: $172,500 - $200,000

This is an Exempt position.

Benefits include: Medical/Dental + Orthodontics/Vision Coverage, 401(k) Match, Flexible Paid Time Off, Mindfulness First Fridays, Monthly Technology Stipend, Home Office Setup Stipend, Professional Development Stipend, Paid Parental Leave, Charitable Donation Matching, Volunteer Days.

Seesaw cares about building a diverse and inclusive team to better advocate for the needs of our incredibly diverse K-12 users.

We prioritize work-life balance and actually walk the walk — we care a lot about our work, but care more about our employee's well-being. We encourage everyone to work at a sustainable pace and have a flexible vacation policy that people actually use.

Seesaw provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity/gender expression/transgender, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information/characteristics, marital status/registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, or military or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Seesaw complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Seesaw is committed to protecting your personal data. Learn more about the personal information we collect, how we use it, and how to exercise your rights here: [U.S. Privacy Notice.](https://web.seesaw.me/us-privacy-notice) 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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