At South Geeks, we engage top-performing Software Engineers, Security Experts, and Data Analysts from Latin America to join our clients' teams worldwide. For over 8 years, we've been helping future-shaping companies scale faster by curating world-class tech talent and building long-lasting, strategic partnerships. We pride ourselves on a people-centered culture that powers innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
Our client is a fast-growing US-based edtech company whose platform powers school-family communication for over 22 million students across the country. Their engineering team is navigating an exciting architectural transition, while continuing to ship fast. This is a high-visibility role with regular interaction with the CEO and co-founders.
Partner with product, exec leadership, design, sales, and marketing to build the right things, as simply as possible
Champion AI development practices and mentor the engineering org on using AI to increase sprint velocity and code quality
Build and run systems that operate robustly at scale with the highest level of security
Work with leadership to build a unified technical direction and a culture of excellence and speed
Review PRs and design the future architecture of systems, including the evolution of legacy monolithic architecture toward a modern stack
Mastery of large-scale services using Ruby, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript and PHP
Deep knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases (MySQL/Postgres), and AWS infrastructure (Aurora, RDS, SQS)
AI-native workflow: you treat AI (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) as your primary partner in the development lifecycle — using it to bypass boilerplate and focus on deep architectural work
Ability to represent the engineering team in high-stakes discussions with non-technical stakeholders
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
100% remote work
Competitive payment in USD
This position is available for candidates based in LATAM.