Why You'll Love This Role: 

We're looking for an experienced ML Ops Engineer to join the ML/AI team at Newsela. This team works on projects ranging from classical Machine Learning to AI / Generative pipelines.  This is a hands-on role. You'll work closely with ML/AI, data and site reliability engineers to take models from prototype to production, build robust data pipelines, and keep our services running smoothly as we continue to scale.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for ML model training, packaging, and deployment across our microservices.
• Manage containerized services on AWS ECS, optimizing for cost, latency, and availability.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and service configuration with Terraform.
• Work to maintain and scale services that make use of third party LLM providers.
• Build and improve data pipelines that feed models from BigQuery, S3, and DynamoDB into training and inference workflows.
• Instrument services with observability tooling (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Langfuse) and establish SLOs for model-serving endpoints.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to productionize new models using BentoML, FastAPI, and container-based serving.

About You:

• 2-3 years in ML Ops supporting ML/AI features, systems and workflows with 3-4 years prior experience in DevOps, CloudOps or SRE.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Hands-on experience with Docker containerization and container orchestration.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD for ML workflows in an enterprise production environment.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms — specifically AWS (ECS, ECR, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch) and GCP (BigQuery, Vertex AI).
• Experience with LLM integration and observability (OpenAI API, Google GenAI, Langfuse tracing).
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines for ML training and feature engineering
• Familiarity with ML modeling workflows — training, evaluation, experiment tracking (e.g. MLFlow, Weights & Biases), and model versioning
• Experience monitoring and flagging model drift over time.
• Exposure to NLP/NLU models and frameworks such as Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, or sentence-transformers
• Knowledge of vector databases (LanceDB, FAISS) and embedding-based retrieval systems
• Experience with scaling and maintaining deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) in production settings
• Familiarity with classical ML libraries (scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM) and model explainability tools (SHAP)
• Working knowledge of ML serving frameworks such as BentoML or similar.
• Comfort working with FastAPI or similar async Python web frameworks.

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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Why You'll Love This Role: 

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer Contractor for the Writing product team. This is a hands-on role on a small, full-stack team building AI-powered learning experiences. You'll ship across the product end-to-end: frontend, backend, data, and the LLM-driven services that sit behind our assessment features.

We work AI-native. Coding agents (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor) are how this team builds, reviews, and operates, and we expect senior engineers to do more than use them. The strongest people on the team invest in the harness itself: writing skills, hooks, and custom workflows that make the next person faster.

What We're Looking For:

A Senior Individual Contributor with a high agency. Someone who:

• Owns the full lifecycle. Takes a problem from vague ask to shipped, monitored, and stable in production. Comfortable shaping scope without heavy PM guidance.
• Raises issues early. Catches risks, design drift, and brittle patterns before they reach production - in their own work and in review. Doesn't wait to be asked.
• Picks up slack outside their lane. Steps into incidents, jumps into a teammate's PR queue, and drives an unowned problem when priorities shift.
• Builds in the AI-native space with judgment. Uses agents as a daily driver, knows their failure modes, and pushes the team's practice forward - not just their own.
• Drives delivery. Active in planning and grooming, pushes back on under-specified work, communicates trade-offs clearly to engineering and product partners.

Core Responsibilities

• Ship full-stack features with measurable product impact.
• Provide substantive code review, architectural feedback, not just approvals.
• Serve as a first responder for production issues (within working hours): triage, root cause, and preventive measures recommendations.
• Improve the team's engineering practice over time: tooling, agentic workflows, technical standards, and documentation that lives where work happens.
• Translate product requirements into a technical approach and communicate the reasoning.

Required Experience

• 5+ years building production web applications, with a strong full-stack range (modern React/TypeScript frontends and a typed or Pythonic backend).
• Track record of owning ambiguous problems end-to-end and shipping with measurable impact.
• Substantive code review history - examples of catching architectural issues.
• Active daily use of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or similar) with a clear point of view on where they help, where they hurt, and how to keep their output reviewable.
• Comfort with production debugging across the stack: traces, logs, profiling, the unglamorous parts.
• Strong async written communication: clear PR descriptions, sharp Slack, sharp specs.

Strong Plus

• Experience extending or building on agentic developer tooling (custom agents, skills, hooks, MCP servers, eval harnesses).
• Background in rich text editing, document collaboration, or LLM-backed product features.

All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check as part of our pre-employment process.

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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About the Role:

We are seeking a skilled Data Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining integrations, automating data workflows, and ensuring data accuracy and availability across educational platforms. You’ll play a key role in supporting school operations.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Develop and maintain custom integrations and ETL processes between K-12 data and internal/external systems.
• Design, implement, and optimize data pipelines
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data needs and deliver robust, scalable solutions.
• Maintain technical documentation for systems, data models, and processes.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data flow issues and respond to API changes.
• Participate in cross-functional projects related to school operations, enrollment, attendance, and performance data.
• Perform quality assurance (QA) on downstream data to ensure accuracy, consistency, and alignment with customer requirements.

About You:

• 4+ years of experience in a software engineering, data engineering, or SIS specialist role.
• Hands-on experience with Student Information Systems or other K-12 platforms, including APIs, data exports/imports, and plugin development.
• Strong skills in SQL, Python, and ETL/ELT tools.
• Experience working with RESTful APIs, SFTP, and other data exchange methods.
• Experience in working with educational data.
• Familiarity with data warehousing concepts.
• Experience with data quality assurance practices and tools, including validation and reconciliation of datasets.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to translate customer data requirements into technical specifications and QA checks.
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote position.

Why you’ll love working at Newsela:

• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts. Additional benefits such as pet insurance, free access to the Calm app, and more to help you stay healthy: mind, body, and soul. 
• Work From Home: We are a fully remote company. We provide a monthly tech stipend to support your WFH needs!
• Supporting ALL Families: Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more! 
• Financial Wellbeing: Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes a employer match to help you build long-term financial security.
• Time Off: Flexible PTO plus 10 company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st).
• Professional Development: Newsela offers an annual learning and development allowance to employees to attend external training sessions, classes, workshops, conferences, and educational materials to foster professional growth within their current role and career aspirations at Newsela.
• Make A Difference: No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers.

About Newsela:

Newsela takes authentic, real world content from trusted sources and makes it instruction ready for K-12 classrooms. Each text is published at five reading levels, so content is accessible to every learner. Today, over 3.3 million teachers and 40 million students have registered with Newsela for content that's personalized to student interests, accessible to everyone, aligned to instructional standards, and attached to activities and reporting that hold teachers accountable for instruction and students accountable for their work. With over 15,000 texts on our platform and multiple new texts published every day across 20+ genres, Newsela enables educators to go deep on any subject they choose.

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Why You'll Love This Role: 

As a Sr. Software Engineer you will be part of the EveryDay Labs team within Newsela. Your work will have a direct and meaningful impact on student outcomes helping school districts reduce absenteeism and increase learning time for students who need it most. You’ll have the opportunity to work on both complex, existing systems and build new products from the ground up, giving you meaningful ownership and visibility into how your work drives impact. In this role, you’ll be part of a collaborative and mission-driven team where clean code, thoughtful design, and continuous improvement are core to how we work. You’ll engage in an environment that values constructive feedback, strong engineering practices, and shared problem solving, while also having the space to take initiative and make a tangible difference across our product, team, and the communities we serve.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design, build, and maintain components of our software platform that support attendance analytics, process management, and family communication tools
• Maintain and improve our student and attendance data systems, ensuring they remain performant and scalable as they grow to support tens of millions of records
• Develop new features that enhance product capabilities and drive meaningful outcomes for schools and students
• Automate operational and monitoring processes to support system reliability and scalability
• Optimize and enhance our AWS infrastructure to improve performance, efficiency, and system resilience
• Contribute to technical discussions and help shape practical, scalable solutions, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate product needs into technical solutions and deliver high-quality outcomes

About You:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong foundation in building scalable backend systems
• Advanced proficiency in our core stack (or similar technologies), including:
• Experience working with AWS infrastructure, including tools such as Terraform, ECS, RDS/Aurora, SES, and messaging systems like SQS/SNS
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities, maintaining strong attention to detail and delivering high-quality work on time
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts, trade-offs, and decisions to a range of stakeholders
• Comfortable working in ambiguous and evolving environments, with a proactive and solutions-oriented mindset
• Experience collaborating across teams to drive alignment, communicate progress, and deliver against shared goals
• Experience operating in environments with broad scope and ambiguity, with the ability to work across multiple areas of the stack.
• Experience with education or education technology a plus
• Fluent in English (written and verbal) required

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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Why You'll Love This Role:

As a strategic leader within the Technology team, you will define and drive the architecture of our data platform — encompassing data engineering, warehousing, analytics, and self-serve capabilities for internal and external stakeholders. You will be the connective tissue between technical complexity and meaningful decisions, setting the standards for data quality, governance, and access while empowering cross-functional partners across Product, Marketing, and Customer Success with the tools and insights to act decisively. By building the infrastructure and the culture that turns data into a genuine competitive advantage, you will directly shape how our educational platform evolves and how students and teachers engage with it.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Own and drive the data and analytics strategy, roadmap, and execution across the organization.
• Scale and mentor a high-performing team spanning data engineering, analytics, and platform.
• Partner with the executive team and cross-functional leaders to surface insights that inform business strategy and drive user growth and retention.
• Empower cross-functional partners across Product, Marketing, and Customer Success with the tools, frameworks, and self-serve access to make data-informed decisions confidently.
• Architect and evolve a scalable data platform — encompassing pipelines, warehouse infrastructure, and self-serve capabilities — for both internal and external users.
• Own the data catalog, ensuring data assets are well-documented, discoverable, and understood across the organization.
• Define and enforce data quality standards, monitoring, and remediation processes to ensure trustworthy data at every layer.
• Establish and maintain a data governance framework covering ownership, access controls, and data definitions across the organization.
• Own the BI environment in Tableau and self-serve analytics tool with Heap and Pendo, ensuring accurate reporting and broad data availability.

About You:

• Have 10+ years of data experience, including 2+ years leading teams spanning data engineering, analytics, warehousing, and business intelligence.
• Are hands-on as well as strategic — comfortable jumping into the details to unblock your team and drive projects forward.
• Are an exceptional mentor who thrives on developing talent and elevating the people around you.
• Have a strong ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Are experienced working with diverse stakeholder groups and can facilitate productive conversations that drive alignment and shared goals.
• Have a proven track record of building and owning data governance frameworks, data quality standards, and data catalog practices from the ground up — and can drive adoption across an organization.
• Have direct experience with BigQuery and GCP as your core data warehouse and cloud platform.
• Are proficient in SQL and Python, and can write, review, and uplift others' code.
• Have hands-on experience with modern data stack tools including dbt for transformation and Dagster for orchestration.
• Are experienced with Tableau for enterprise BI and self-serve reporting.
• Have experience with product and web analytics platforms such as Heap and/or Pendo.
•  Legally authorized to work in the US.

All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check as part of our pre-employment process.

Why you’ll love working at Newsela:

• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts. Additional benefits such as pet insurance, free access to the Calm app, and more to help you stay healthy: mind, body, and soul. 
• Work From Home: We are a fully remote company. We provide a monthly tech stipend to support your WFH needs!
• Supporting ALL Families: Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more! 
• Financial Wellbeing: Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes a employer match to help you build long-term financial security.
• Time Off: Flexible PTO plus 10 company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st).
• Professional Development: Newsela offers an annual learning and development allowance to employees to attend external training sessions, classes, workshops, conferences, and educational materials to foster professional growth within their current role and career aspirations at Newsela.
• Make A Difference: No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers.

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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Why You'll Love This Role: 

As a Senior Site Reliability Contractor, you will be involved in coding infrastructure automation with Terraform and Github Actions CI/CD. In this role, you will focus on improving our monitoring using Datadog, Sentry, and Cloudwatch. It will be critical to improve and automate our release processes to deploy Newsela services. You will have the opportunity to develop a rapport with a domain of application developers to improve infrastructure and monitoring for Newsela services in their ownership

What You'll Be Doing:

• Be on an on-call rotation to respond to incidents that impact Newsela.com availability and provide support for developers during internal and external incidents 
• Maintain and assist in extending our infrastructure with Terraform, Github Actions CI/CD, Prefect, and AWS services
• Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than outages using Datadog, Sentry and CloudWatch
• Look for ways to turn repeatable manual actions into automations to reduce on-call toil
• Improve operational processes (such as deployments, releases, migrations, etc) to make them run seamlessly with fault tolerance in mind 
• Design, build and maintain core cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP that enables scaling to support thousands of concurrent users
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack 
• Provide infrastructure and architectural planning support as an embedded team member within a domain of Newsela’s application developers 
• Plan the growth of Newsela’s infrastructure 

About You:

• Technical

  • Infrastructure as code: use Terraform and Github CI/CD for automation, containerize our environments (Docker, ECS), and leverage cloud technologies to meet our goals
  • Systems: manage, configure and troubleshoot operating system issues, storage (block and object), networking (VPCs, proxies and CDNs), and administer high-availability datastores (mySQL, Postgres, Neo4J) and Redis clusters
  • Monitoring and instrumentation: implement metrics in Datadog, Sentry, log management and related systems, and Slack/JIRA integrations
  • Engineering practices: availability, reliability and scalability, as well as disaster recovery
  • Work in a variety of languages: Shell, IaC, Python, SQL

  Execution

  • Planning: familiarity with agile methodologies; use epics, issues to drive projects
  • Organization: personal and team workload organization, OKR leadership
  • Management: able to self-organize and accomplish tasks asynchronously

  Collaboration and Communication

  • Leading and contributing to scope and designs for issues, epics, and OKRs
  • Contributing to Newsela architecture diagrams, process diagrams and runbook documentation
  • Completing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations and perform readiness reviews
  • Improving team practices through code reviews, handoffs of work and incidents

  Influence and Maturity

  • Knowledge sharing, mentoring within SRE and developer teams
  • Self-awareness, handling conflict in the team, providing and receiving feedback
  • Maintaining good relationships with other engineering teams at Newsela that help improve the product
  • Accountability: willing to proactively step in and do the right thing while providing candid and constructive feedback
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Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.

Why you’ll love working at Newsela:

• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts. Additional benefits such as gym reimbursement, pet insurance, free access to the Calm app, Rocket Lawyer and more to help you stay healthy: mind, body, and soul. 
• Work From Home: We are a fully remote company. We provide a monthly tech stipend to support your WFH needs!
• Supporting ALL Families: Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more! 
• Financial Wellbeing: Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes a employer match to help you build long-term financial security.
• Time Off: Flexible PTO, paid sick time off, company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st).
• Professional Development: Newsela offers an annual learning and development allowance to employees to attend external training sessions, classes, workshops, conferences, and educational materials to foster professional growth within their current role and career aspirations at Newsela.
• Make A Difference: No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers.

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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Why You'll Love This Role: 

As a Sr. Software Engineer you will be part of the EveryDay Labs team within Newsela. Your work will have a direct and meaningful impact on student outcomes helping school districts reduce absenteeism and increase learning time for students who need it most. You’ll have the opportunity to work on both complex, existing systems and build new products from the ground up, giving you meaningful ownership and visibility into how your work drives impact. In this role, you’ll be part of a collaborative and mission-driven team where clean code, thoughtful design, and continuous improvement are core to how we work. You’ll engage in an environment that values constructive feedback, strong engineering practices, and shared problem solving, while also having the space to take initiative and make a tangible difference across our product, team, and the communities we serve.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design, build, and maintain components of our software platform that support attendance analytics, process management, and family communication tools
• Maintain and improve our student and attendance data systems, ensuring they remain performant and scalable as they grow to support tens of millions of records
• Develop new features that enhance product capabilities and drive meaningful outcomes for schools and students
• Automate operational and monitoring processes to support system reliability and scalability
• Optimize and enhance our AWS infrastructure to improve performance, efficiency, and system resilience
• Contribute to technical discussions and help shape practical, scalable solutions, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate product needs into technical solutions and deliver high-quality outcomes

About You:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong foundation in building scalable backend systems
• Advanced proficiency in our core stack (or similar technologies), including:
• Experience working with AWS infrastructure, including tools such as Terraform, ECS, RDS/Aurora, SES, and messaging systems like SQS/SNS
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities, maintaining strong attention to detail and delivering high-quality work on time
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts, trade-offs, and decisions to a range of stakeholders
• Comfortable working in ambiguous and evolving environments, with a proactive and solutions-oriented mindset
• Experience collaborating across teams to drive alignment, communicate progress, and deliver against shared goals
• Experience operating in environments with broad scope and ambiguity, with the ability to work across multiple areas of the stack.
• Experience with education or education technology a plus

All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check as part of our pre-employment process.

Why you’ll love working at Newsela:

• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts. Additional benefits such as pet insurance, free access to the Calm app, and more to help you stay healthy: mind, body, and soul. 
• Work From Home: We are a fully remote company. We provide a monthly tech stipend to support your WFH needs!
• Supporting ALL Families: Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more! 
• Financial Wellbeing: Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes a employer match to help you build long-term financial security.
• Time Off: Flexible PTO plus 10 company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st).
• Professional Development: Newsela offers an annual learning and development allowance to employees to attend external training sessions, classes, workshops, conferences, and educational materials to foster professional growth within their current role and career aspirations at Newsela.
• Make A Difference: No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers.

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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Seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Mexico or Argentina for Lead Analytics Engineering Data Team

• We are looking for a Lead Analytics Engineer to join our data team.
• Reporting to the Hiring Manager, you will be responsible for applying data engineering best practices to analytics code to transform, test, and document data.
• You will provide clean and organized data sets to end users.
• You will be provide expert code reviews and mentorship to other engineers in the data space
• You will be responsible for building and maintaining composable data models, as well as optimizing SQL query performance for the models you build.
• You will transform raw data into business insights, working closely with stakeholders and developing analyses to answer critical business questions.
• You will create data visualizations and help stakeholders explore and understand the data visualization tools available to them.

Why you'll love this role:Data Modeling and Transformation

• Build new analyses and support existing ones using SQL and Python.
• Apply software engineering principles like version control and continuous integration to the analytics codebase.
• Expand our data warehouse with clean data ready for analysis.

Data Quality and Testing

• Apply advanced data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores are aligned with expected business logic.
• Implement validation checks and automated testing procedures to manage data quality in your ETL/ELT pipelines.

Collaboration and Communication

• Work with stakeholders to define business logic and data expectations.
• Help drive a change in the usage of data by actively surfacing insights to stakeholders.
• Lead initiatives and problem definition, scoping, design, and planning.

Infrastructure and Automation

• Build tools and automation to run data infrastructure.
• Manage large-scale data migrations in relational datastores.

Why you're a great fit:

• 8+ Years experience working with data in a software environment. 
• Required Skills: Mastered proficiency in SQL and Python; advanced experience managing business semantic layer tooling, data catalog tooling and  data integrity testing frameworks. Experience with dbt orchestration and best practices.
• You have a track record of working autonomously and proactively, with deep domain knowledge of data systems.
• Required Tech Stack: SQL, Python, relational datastores, DAG tooling (like Dagster or Airflow), dbt and Tableau.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Terraform) and document, graph, or schema-less datastores.

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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Why You'll Love This Role: 

As a Senior Full-Stack QualityEngineer, you will be a critical force in ensuring that mission is delivered through reliable, high-quality software. You will work  alongside talented product engineers to test complex front-end applications powered by cloud-based back-end services, internal LLMs, and third-party AI tools.  The ideal candidate will have strong  experience in test automation, API validation, manual testing, and performance testing, with a proactive mindset and excellent organizational skills. This role requires someone who can deeply understand business and technical requirements and translate them into effective test strategies.

What You'll Be Doing:

• You will own quality end-to-end: from story acceptance criteria all the way to production health monitoring.
• You will perform manual testing for exploratory, regression, and end-to-end scenarios when needed.
• You will review and analyze business and technical requirements to define appropriate test coverage Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure quality across the SDLC.     
• You will build API and service-layer test automation from scratch; test APIs both manually (via tools like Postman) and through automated scripts.  
• You will test internally built LLMs and AI-driven features for accuracy, consistency, and edge case behavior.
• Evaluate third-party AI tools and services integrated into the Newsela platform.                                                    

About You:

• 7+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience in a professional engineering environment.
• 4+ years building automated test frameworks and scripts using TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python.                                    
• 4 + years of hands-on experience with WebdriverIO and/or Playwright.                             
• 4+ years working in an Agile Scrum team.                                                                                            
• Demonstrated experience across the full spectrum of testing types: manual, exploratory, regression, integration, API/services, and  database testing.                                                                                                                     
• Experience testing both web applications and mobile apps.                                                                           
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as part of your daily workflow. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills — you can explain a bug to a developer and a risk to a product manager equally well.
• Prior experience in EdTech or consumer-facing SaaS products.     

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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