artofproblemsolving
Staff Software Engineer
At a Glance
- Location
- San Diego, California, United States
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Posted
- 2026-05-19T16:16:08-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
- Medical
Compensation & Benefits
Multiple options for Medical, Dental and Vision plans
Future Planning:
401(k) with company match
Quality of Life:
PTO Plan and supportive leadership that gives you the work-life balance you deserve
Ease of Transition:
Responsibilities
Despite this impact, AoPS remains relatively unknown to the broader public.
AoPS is unique because it is vertically integrated: it develops its own curriculum, runs its own physical learning centers, employs teachers, and has a robust and capable product, design, and engineering team.
Today, our curriculum and academic programs are absolutely world-class, but our digital experiences are dated.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll be a core member of a small and scrappy team, partnering directly with peers in curriculum and design, as well as the broader AoPS engineering organization, to design, build, and iterate on real user feedback.
Prototyping solutions quickly, testing with families and iterating based on what you learn
Digging into user feedback and data to understand what's resonating and not
Team
Through thoughtful code reviews and hands-on mentorship, help teammates level up their skills. You're not just writing code, you're shaping how we think about architecture, design, and technical excellence across the team
Own the Entire Journey:
From initial user conversations with Product and Design through launch and beyond, be deeply involved in shaping what we build and how we build it. Your technical insights will influence product strategy, and you'll see your ideas come to life in the hands of real learners
Communicate Fearlessly:
Keep stakeholders informed with clear timelines and early warnings when challenges emerge. No surprises: just transparent, proactive communication that helps the whole team move faster
Stay Sharp:
About the Company
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the country's top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.