We’re expanding across Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Peru, and we’re looking for a Principal Database Programmer to help build the foundation of our clinical data operations in LATAM. In this high‑impact role, you’ll lead the development, testing, implementation, and support of clinical databases from start-up through post‑lock, while partnering closely with Data Management, Project Management, EDC vendors, and clients.

You’ll guide database design, oversee programming activities, troubleshoot complex technical issues, support system administration, forecast project needs, and contribute to SOP and process development. This is also a unique opportunity to mentor junior programmers, train end users, support onboarding, and influence how our new regional team grows.

If you’re motivated by technical leadership, collaboration, and the chance to help shape a new regional department from the ground up, we’d love to hear from you!

Essential functions of the job include but are not limited to:

• Maintains responsibility of assigned projects. Ensures on-time delivery, communicates the status of projects to internal teams and study
• Maintains awareness of the key elements of the contract and scope of work for assigned project(s) and communicates status updates to the Project team as necessary.
• Perform project forecasting of hours, and identification of resource requirements and manages project budgets including identification of out-of-scope work and post production changes
• Provides input and guidance to the design of clinical databases to the client and internal teams
• Builds and supports clinical databases
• Develops, tests, and validates programs and clinical database to support client-related projects and third-party applications.
• Provides system administration and advanced technical support services for internally developed applications and clinical databases, client-related projects and third-party applications
• Troubleshoots and resolves software and clinical database problems
• Develops and maintains study-specific validation documents
• Provides support to data management for client-related projects from CRF design to post database close and archival
• May design, develop and validate the Company’s internal applications, client-related projects and third-party applications.
• Participate in software vendor selection
• Participate in conducting EDC demonstrations and trainings
• Participate in the development and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and corresponding process documentation related to data management and database management activities
• Supports with onboarding of new hires
• Provide leadership for cross-functional and organization-wide initiatives, where applicable
• Trains and ensures that all data management project team members have been sufficiently trained
• Communicate with study sponsors, vendors and project teams as needed regarding data, database or other relevant project issues
• Present software demonstrations/trainings, department/company training sessions, present at project meetings
• Performs all duties in accordance with SOPs, government regulations, guidelines and industry standards.
• May require some travel
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

Minimum Required:

• Minimum 8 years’ experience
• Bachelors and/or a combination of related experience
• Professional working proficiency in English required

Other Required:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
• Able to handle a variety of clinical research tasks.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Professional use of the English language; both written and oral.
• Experience in Object Oriented Programming (C#, C++, VBS, etc.…),
• Understanding of CDISC standards (CDASH, SDTM, ADaM, etc.)
• Experience in clinical database management system development.
• Experience in a clinical, scientific or healthcare discipline.
• Proficiency in more than one CDMS system to include building forms, edit checks and complex rule development.  Awareness of CRF standards and input to maintenance of standards library. Ability to troubleshoot and support peers with technical issues and build solutions.Broad knowledge of drug, device and/or biologic development and effective data management practices
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills

Preferred:

• Experience in a clinical, scientific or healthcare discipline and multiple therapeutic area experience, preferably Oncology
• Experience in utilizing various Database Programming systems

Skills:

Competencies: 

• Ability to work independently, manage time and create plans to achieve project revenue and business goals
• Ability to work effectively with minimal direction; must be a self-motivated and self-directed individual who enjoys a challenging and dynamic work environment
• Team player willing to collaborate and share knowledge
• Highly organized
• Effective communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Excellent organization and prioritization skills
• Exceptional customer service orientation and proven track record of successful client relationship management
• Conducts formal presentations to a wide variety of audiences including colleagues and clients with a high level of proficiency

#LI-AG2 #LI-REMOTE

We’re expanding across Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Peru, and we’re looking for a Principal Database Programmer to help build the foundation of our clinical data operations in LATAM. In this high‑impact role, you’ll lead the development, testing, implementation, and support of clinical databases from start-up through post‑lock, while partnering closely with Data Management, Project Management, EDC vendors, and clients.

You’ll guide database design, oversee programming activities, troubleshoot complex technical issues, support system administration, forecast project needs, and contribute to SOP and process development. This is also a unique opportunity to mentor junior programmers, train end users, support onboarding, and influence how our new regional team grows.

If you’re motivated by technical leadership, collaboration, and the chance to help shape a new regional department from the ground up, we’d love to hear from you!

Essential functions of the job include but are not limited to:

• Maintains responsibility of assigned projects. Ensures on-time delivery, communicates the status of projects to internal teams and study
• Maintains awareness of the key elements of the contract and scope of work for assigned project(s) and communicates status updates to the Project team as necessary.
• Perform project forecasting of hours, and identification of resource requirements and manages project budgets including identification of out-of-scope work and post production changes
• Provides input and guidance to the design of clinical databases to the client and internal teams
• Builds and supports clinical databases
• Develops, tests, and validates programs and clinical database to support client-related projects and third-party applications.
• Provides system administration and advanced technical support services for internally developed applications and clinical databases, client-related projects and third-party applications
• Troubleshoots and resolves software and clinical database problems
• Develops and maintains study-specific validation documents
• Provides support to data management for client-related projects from CRF design to post database close and archival
• May design, develop and validate the Company’s internal applications, client-related projects and third-party applications.
• Participate in software vendor selection
• Participate in conducting EDC demonstrations and trainings
• Participate in the development and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and corresponding process documentation related to data management and database management activities
• Supports with onboarding of new hires
• Provide leadership for cross-functional and organization-wide initiatives, where applicable
• Trains and ensures that all data management project team members have been sufficiently trained
• Communicate with study sponsors, vendors and project teams as needed regarding data, database or other relevant project issues
• Present software demonstrations/trainings, department/company training sessions, present at project meetings
• Performs all duties in accordance with SOPs, government regulations, guidelines and industry standards.
• May require some travel
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

Minimum Required:

• Minimum 8 years’ experience
• Bachelors and/or a combination of related experience
• Professional working proficiency in English required

Other Required:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
• Able to handle a variety of clinical research tasks.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Professional use of the English language; both written and oral.
• Experience in Object Oriented Programming (C#, C++, VBS, etc.…),
• Understanding of CDISC standards (CDASH, SDTM, ADaM, etc.)
• Experience in clinical database management system development.
• Experience in a clinical, scientific or healthcare discipline.
• Proficiency in more than one CDMS system to include building forms, edit checks and complex rule development.  Awareness of CRF standards and input to maintenance of standards library. Ability to troubleshoot and support peers with technical issues and build solutions.Broad knowledge of drug, device and/or biologic development and effective data management practices
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills

Preferred:

• Experience in a clinical, scientific or healthcare discipline and multiple therapeutic area experience, preferably Oncology
• Experience in utilizing various Database Programming systems

Skills:

Competencies: 

• Ability to work independently, manage time and create plans to achieve project revenue and business goals
• Ability to work effectively with minimal direction; must be a self-motivated and self-directed individual who enjoys a challenging and dynamic work environment
• Team player willing to collaborate and share knowledge
• Highly organized
• Effective communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Excellent organization and prioritization skills
• Exceptional customer service orientation and proven track record of successful client relationship management
• Conducts formal presentations to a wide variety of audiences including colleagues and clients with a high level of proficiency

#LI-AG2 #LI-REMOTE

Overview:
We are looking for Senior Software Engineers in LATAM to join the engineering team to help with our ongoing growth and expansion! Your focus would be on building products using Javascript and Typescript and a core Object-Oriented Programming language like Java/C++/C#. We have a complete CI/CD software lifecycle and an evolving services-oriented architecture hosted in AWS. We require Senior Software Engineers with a strong focus on AI-Native development. Proficiency in utilizing various Agentic coding tools to significantly amplify impact and accelerate implementations is essential for this role.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll help shape how students, educators, and institutions interact with our technology. Whether it’s building a seamless class discovery flow, improving accessibility and performance, or integrating AI into real-time classroom experiences, your work will directly impact how people learn every day. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to create fast, elegant, and responsive interfaces that bring our innovations to life.

About Nerdy:

At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) -  the company behind Varsity Tutors - we’re redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI™ 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 how you 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 at nerdy.com.

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

• Q4-2025 Shareholder Letter
• Q3-2025 Shareholder Letter
• Q2-2025 Shareholder Letter

Qualifications:

• Experience with Javascript and Typescript.
• Experience with a core Object-Oriented Programming language like Java/C++/C#
• Familiarity with backend services & technologies is a plus.
• Experience with deployment systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy).
• Familiarity with AWS Services (e.g. RDS, Lambda, EC2, et cetera).
• Familiarity with the Linux operating system and command-line tools.
• Understanding of OO design, algorithms, and data structures.
• Aptitude to quickly learn new languages and technologies as necessary.
• Experience developing websites that are visited by thousands of visitors daily.
• Experience with enhancing SEO performance.
• Experienced with AI-native tools that enhance productivity and speed (e.g., Cursor, Make, Supabase, Netlify, Claude Code, n8n, Firecrawl, ChatGPT, Grok, Bolt, Vercel, etc).
• Understand and appreciate that Nerdy is an apolitical company and that we can have the largest impact if we are united in our focus on helping people learn and not divided or distracted by advancing unrelated causes.
• Computer Science or related degree preferred.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities:

• Write performant, maintainable code that is easy to read and well-documented.
• Write automated tests to thoroughly validate the correctness of your code.
• Deploy large-scale web applications.
• Have a focus on quality, and operate iteratively to get from good to better.
• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotation; we all own our code end-to-end from development to deployment to operations.
• Come ready to learn from some of the best and brightest in the industry.
• Work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic and fast-moving team.
• Be effective in a team environment working with fellow engineers, product management, and design.

Unlock Your Full Potential at Nerdy:

Join our worldwide team—work from home, get great pay, and help shape the future of learning. Here’s what you get:

• Competitive USD Compensation: Enjoy a market-leading rate paid in U.S. dollars.

• 100% Remote (Home Country Only): Work from anywhere in your home country—no relocation required, no borders crossed.

• Flexible Time Off: Our flexible PTO lets you recharge on your own terms and when you need it the most.

• Local Holiday Pay: We honor your nation’s official holidays with paid time off—celebrate what matters to you.

• Continuous Learning: Get a free, all-inclusive learning membership for you and your household—including 1-on-1 tutoring hours, unlimited on-demand classes, and access to our full suite of learning products and services.

• Supercharge with AI: Gain exclusive access to cutting-edge AI tools that boost your productivity, making you feel almost super-human (cape not included).

• Feedback-Rich, Collaborative Culture: Tap into regular training, peer reviews, and a team that treats every team member as a vital collaborator and owner in our success.

• Make a Global Impact: Your expertise fuels an innovative platform used by learners around the world—be part of something transformative.

The Bottom Line:

If you're driven by impact, energized by ownership, and excited to help shape what’s next, you’ll thrive here. We move fast, think big, and reward those who deliver. This isn’t a traditional corporate environment - it’s a place to do the most meaningful work of your career.