MasteryPrep

Delivers school-focused test prep curriculum

Engineering Team Lead

Engineering LeadershipUpdated on Nov 13

Full-time$150k - $160k /yrRemote

About the Job

Requirements

At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 years leading engineers as a team lead or engineering manager while continuing to write production code.
Production experience with React and TypeScript, and solid back-end experience with Node.js or a similar technology.
Deep PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, query performance, and migrations.
Cloud experience with Google Cloud Platform services including Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, and IAM, or transferable AWS or Azure experience with willingness to ramp up.
Experience building software that handles sensitive or regulated data, such as student data under FERPA or COPPA, health data, financial data, or other regulated data.
Test-first discipline for AI-written code, including production experience with AI coding agents, evaluating their failures, and using automated tests to gate agent output before merging.
Clear written communication for engineering task specifications and prompts.

Responsibilities

Lead, manage, mentor, and grow a small team of product engineers; run planning and keep delivery predictable.
Design, build, and maintain product features while working alongside AI agents.
Define how work is broken into tasks for AI agents, including kickoff prompts, acceptance criteria, user acceptance testing checkpoints, and completion reports; refine the process based on results.
Set unit, integration, and acceptance testing standards for agent-written code and enforce them in review.
Set human decision points for development plans and user acceptance testing, including pull request approval, merge approval, commit sign-off, and user acceptance testing.
Own privacy in product development through access controls, data minimization, integration reviews, and commitments made to school districts.
Steward the PostgreSQL architecture and student information system rostering pipelines, including OneRoster, Clever, and ClassLink integrations.
Set continuous integration checks, review discipline, and security practices for a platform serving students.
Track where AI-assisted development helps or hurts, remove processes that slow the team down, and scale practices that improve speed and safety.

Desired Qualifications

Google Cloud Platform experience is preferred; AWS or Azure experience is transferable with willingness to ramp up.
Education technology experience, especially K-12 student information system or rostering integrations or learning management system ecosystems.
Experience building products used by minors, including Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and student data privacy practices.
Experience building or evaluating large language model-powered features, including prompt design, evaluations, and guardrails.
Experience bringing structure to a small, growing team.

Why this role matters

Every year, about a million students in partner schools use MasteryPrep to prepare for the ACT, SAT, and state exams that shape their next step. Their schools trust us with their rosters and performance data.

We're hiring a hands-on Engineering Team Lead to build that product with a small team, using AI agents for much of the implementation while keeping people accountable for every change. The salary range is $150,000 to $160,000, and the role is fully remote.

The role

This is a player-coach role. You'll lead a small team of engineers, report to our CTO, and spend generating code with AI agents. You'll shape how the team plans and delivers, mentor engineers, and own the health of both the product and the process.

If you've been leading managers or a large engineering organization and want to stay at that level, this likely isn't the right fit. If you want to lead a small team while still shipping code yourself, read on.

How we work

AI changes what engineers do, not whether they matter. Agents write many of our first drafts. Engineers define the work, run acceptance testing, and give the final approval on every commit and merge.

Automated tests are how we verify agent output, and nothing merges without them. People stay accountable for everything that ships. If you're ambitious about automation and uncompromising about verification, you'll like it here.

What you'll do

Lead the team. Manage, mentor, and grow a small team of product engineers. Run planning and keep delivery predictable.
Ship product. Design, build, and maintain features yourself, working alongside AI agents.
Run the AI-native process. Decide how work is broken into tasks agents can carry out: kickoff prompts, acceptance criteria, UAT checkpoints, and completion reports. Refine it as you learn what works.
Gate AI output with tests. Set the unit, integration, and acceptance testing standard that agent-written code must meet, and hold the team to it in review.
Keep people in charge of what matters. Set clear human decision points, specifically around development plans and UAT, including PR approval and merge, commit sign-off, and user acceptance testing.
Protect student data. Own privacy in how we build: access controls, data minimization, integration reviews, and the privacy commitments we make to districts.
Own data and integrations. Steward our PostgreSQL architecture and the SIS rostering pipelines (OneRoster, Clever, ClassLink) that get the right students into the right classes with the right data.
Set the quality bar. CI checks, review discipline, and security practices fit for a platform serving a million students a year.
Measure and improve. Track where AI-assisted development helps and where it hurts. Cut process that slows the team down, and scale what makes it faster and safer.

What you bring

7+ years of professional software engineering, including 2+ years leading engineers as a team lead or engineering manager while still writing production code.
Production experience with React and TypeScript, plus solid back-end work in Node.js or similar.
PostgreSQL depth: schema design, query performance, and migrations.
Cloud experience on Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, IAM). GCP is preferred; AWS or Azure experience transfers if you're ready to ramp up.
Experience building software that handles sensitive or regulated data. Student data under FERPA or COPPA is ideal, and health, financial, or other regulated data counts too.
A test-first discipline for AI-written code. You've shipped production code with AI coding agents, can tell us where they failed you and what you changed, and can explain how automated tests gate agent output before it merges.
Clear written communication. In an AI-native process, task specs and prompts are engineering artifacts.
Judgment, pragmatism, and steady ownership under ambiguity.

Nice to have

Education technology experience, especially K-12 SIS or rostering integrations or LMS ecosystems.
Experience building products used by minors, including COPPA and student data privacy practices.
Experience building or evaluating LLM-powered features: prompt design, evals, and guardrails.
Experience bringing structure to a small team that's growing.

About the Company

MasteryPrep

Delivers school-focused test prep curriculum

MasteryPrep provides test-prep resources for high school students, focusing on ACT, SAT, and TSIA2. It serves educational institutions, primarily high schools, by selling a mastery-based curriculum, daily classroom exercises, and engaging micro video courses that build college readiness through bite-sized lessons. Products are offered as curriculum packages and subscription access to online resources, designed for classroom use to improve CCMR (College, Career, and Military Readiness) outcomes. Unlike general test prep providers, MasteryPrep centers on a mastery-based approach delivered directly to schools, aiming to raise standardized test scores and overall college readiness by embedding bite-sized, trackable learning into the school’s curriculum.

Company size: 51-200
Company stage: Early VC
Total funding: $8.3M
Headquarters: Baton Rouge, LA
Founded: 2013

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