Staff Engineer (AI-Native) (Full time contractor)

Overview:

We are looking for a Staff Engineer in LATAM to join the engineering team! In this role, you will set technical direction across both front-end and back-end systems, helping shape the architecture, performance, reliability, and user experience of our learning platform. You will provide hands-on technical leadership across squads, partner closely with Product and Design, and drive the development of scalable, secure-by-default, AI-powered customer experiences.

This is a high-impact role for an engineer who can move fluidly across the stack, from high-traffic user interfaces to high-scale services, while mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across the organization.

About Nerdy:

At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) - the company behind Varsity Tutors - we’re redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AITM platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale.

We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you’d bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.

Fortune favors the bold. Join us.

How we compete:

AI-Native at every level

From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you’re not wielding AI, you’re not done.

Entrepreneurial velocity

Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.

Free-market rigor

Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.

Full-stack ownership

You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.

Reward for contribution

Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both what you achieve and howyou achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded.

Relentless exploration

Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.

Is Apolitical

You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes.

If you’re a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition, personal responsibility, and the chance to redefine how the world learns - while continually stretching the limits of what generative AI can do - come do the most ambitious and rewarding work of your career here. Learn more atnerdy.com.

Nerdy’s shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy:

Q1-2026 Shareholder Letter

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Technical Leadership: Serve as the technical point of reference for the squad and broader engineering team, ensuring best practices in architecture, performance optimization, and accessibility standards are upheld.

Solution Design: Lead the design and architectural discussions for systems, making pivotal decisions on frameworks, state management patterns, component architecture, and design systems.

Code Quality: Advocate for and ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code. Conduct regular code reviews and provide mentorship to team members.

Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, provide technical insights, and ensure the timely delivery of features.

Strategy and Vision: Contribute to the engineering department's strategy and vision, bringing innovative ideas to improve our customer-facing experiences.

Problem Solving: Address complex technical challenges, innovate solutions, and optimize existing systems for scalability and performance.

Team Development: Mentor and develop team members, helping them to grow in their technical roles and careers.

AI Enablement: Leverage AI-native tools and approaches to improve development speed, product capabilities, and engineering effectiveness across the software lifecycle.

Qualifications:

Minimum of 10 years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and evolving complex, high-scale systems and customer-facing applications.

Strong full-stack expertise, including domain in:

Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript

Backend: Javascript, Java, Golang

Explicit mentoring of senior-level engineers regularly, leading to results.

Significant experience in AWS-based cloud architecture environments.

In-depth knowledge of modern software engineering practices, design patterns, and architectures.

Experienced with AI-native tools that enhance productivity and speed (Cursor, Make.com, Supabase, Netlify, Claude Code, n8n, Firecrawl, ChatGPT, Grok, Bolt, Vercel, etc).

Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Experience designing high-traffic web applications and scalable distributed services.