We're hiring a Contracted Senior Software Engineer for the Writing product team. This is a hands-on individual contributor role on a small, full-stack group building AI-powered learning experiences. The product is Newsela Writing: teachers create assignments, often built from Newsela's article library, and students draft essays in a rich-text editor that gives them real-time, rubric-aligned AI feedback - what they did well, what to improve, and what to try next, so they can revise before submitting, while teachers review the AI's grades. You'll ship across the product end-to-end, from the assignment-creation and editing flows and a rich editor, to the rubric models that define how writing is scored and the LLM-driven services behind it all, spanning frontend, backend, and data.
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