Senior Front-End Engineer (Full-Time Contractor)
About the role:
We are looking for Senior Front-End Engineers (Full-Time Contractors) based in South America to join the engineering team to help with our ongoing growth and expansion! Your focus would be on building frontend experiences in React. Familiarity with backend services & technologies is a plus. We have a complete CI/CD software lifecycle and an evolving services-oriented architecture hosted in AWS.
As a Senior Front-End 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 Backend Engineering to create fast, elegant, and responsive interfaces that bring our innovations to life.
About Nerdy:
Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) is a leading platform for live online learning, with a mission to transform the way people learn through technology. The Company’s purpose-built proprietary platform leverages technology, including AI, to connect learners of all ages to experts, delivering superior value on both sides of the network. Nerdy’s comprehensive learning destination provides learning experiences across 3,000+ subjects and multiple formats—including one-on-one instruction, small group classes, large format group classes, and adaptive self-study. Their proprietary platform leverages AI to personalize the experience for Learners of all ages —from kindergarten to professional—in academic, test prep, enrichment, and certification subjects. Nerdy’s flagship business, Varsity Tutors, is one of the nation’s largest platforms for live online tutoring and classes. Its solutions are available directly to students and consumers, as well as through schools and other institutions. Learn more about Nerdy at https://www.nerdy.com/.
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Why this role matters
This is a pivotal moment at Nerdy: we're doubling down on AI as a catalyst for Human Interaction (AI for HI®). As our platform evolves to support intelligent tutoring, real-time collaboration, and personalized learning journeys, the front-end layer becomes more important than ever—it’s how learners experience the magic.
Qualifications:
Experience with React.
Familiarity with backend services & technologies is a plus, particularly in Ruby on Rails.
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.
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.
Nerdy Leadership Principles
*Relentless Focus on Customers * Comfort with Ambiguity * Ownership * Simplify * Intellectual Curiosity * Build Teams * Think Big * Insist on High Standards * Bias for Action * Build Trust * Go Deep * Have Conviction * Deliver Results * Are Right, a Lot *
Benefits:
Competitive Salary in USD
Remote Position
Flexible PTO
Free Learning Membership for you and your household (1-1 tutoring hours, unlimited use of on-demand services, and access to our online classes)
National holidays
A fun, collaborative, and team-oriented work environment with plenty of training and a feedback-rich culture.
Unique opportunity to help transform how the world learns!
Nerdy is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
