Full Stack Engineer

About Odyssey

Education Savings Account (ESA) programs are transforming K-12 education by giving families control over their children's learning experiences. Odyssey partners with state agencies to design, launch, and operate these programs, providing the technology, program operations, vendor ecosystem, and family experience needed to make them work in the real world.

We currently operate in 6 states, supporting over 200,000 students and $1 billion in education funding. Our mission is to ensure that families have access to life-changing educational opportunities, regardless of where they live.

About the Role

As a Full Stack Engineer at Odyssey, you'll play a crucial role in building the core technology that powers our platform. Your responsibilities include designing, developing, and maintaining full-stack systems, including scalable services, APIs, data models, frontend UIs, and internal tools that support families, schools, providers, and operational teams.

• Own features end-to-end across the stack from ideation to deployment and iteration
• Build and ship 0-1 products and systems, turning ambiguous ideas into scalable, production-ready solutions
• Architect, plan, and develop functional customer experiences using TypeScript, AWS Lambda, Next.js, and other frameworks and languages
• Design, write, and execute tests to ensure the robustness and reliability of our applications
• Design and implement sophisticated database models considering scalability and performance
• Develop and maintain APIs for widespread public and internal use, enhancing our mobile applications and various systems
• Drive the continuous improvement of Odyssey's Marketplace platform in collaboration with the product team
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product and design to identify needs, formulate solutions, and bridge product gaps
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed and scalability, with a strong bias towards shipping and learning quickly
• Foster transparent communication within the team, sharing both challenges and successes openly
• Contribute to system design, platform management, code reviews, and capacity planning as well as overall architectural decisions to help evolve systems as we scale
• Take full ownership of your work in production, including monitoring, debugging, and continuous improvement
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy while proactively identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities

What You’ll Do

• Own features end-to-end across the stack from ideation and technical design through implementation, deployment, and iteration
• Build and ship 0-1 products and systems, turning ambiguous ideas into scalable, production-ready solutions
• Architect, plan, and develop beautiful functional experiences for customers using TypeScript, AWS Lambda, Next.js, and other frameworks and languages
• Design, write, and execute tests to ensure the robustness and reliability of our applications
• Design and implement sophisticated database models considering scalability and performance
• Develop and maintain APIs for widespread public and internal use, enhancing our mobile applications and various systems
• Drive the continuous improvement of Odyssey's Marketplace platform in collaboration with the product team
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product and design to identify needs, formulate solutions, and bridge product gaps
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed and scalability, with a strong bias towards shipping and learning quickly
• Foster transparent communication within the team, sharing both challenges and successes openly
• Contribute to system design, platform management, code reviews, and capacity planning as well as overall architectural decisions to help evolve systems as we scale
• Take full ownership of your work in production, including monitoring, debugging, and continuous improvement
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy while proactively identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities

About You

• 3-5+ years of experience in software development
• Proficient in TypeScript for building robust, scalable applications
• Experience with early to mid-stage tech startups and enthusiasm for startup growth and dynamics
• You've built or significantly contributed to 0-1 products or features
• Comfortable with ambiguity and turning loosely defined problems into clear, actionable plans
• An Entrepreneurial mindset - thinking like an owner not just an implementer
• You care about what you're building and why
• Strong communication skills, comfortable pitching new approaches and concepts to the team
• Solid understanding and experience in Agile practices, with flexibility to adapt to evolving project needs
• Track record of shipping quickly and iterating based on feedback; taking a bias towards action across the entire SDLC

Preferred Skills

• Experience with building scalable software using AWS technologies
• Experience in highly regulated industries such as fintech, govtech, or healthtech
• Experience with double-entry ledgers, payments (Stripe payments a plus), and money movement
• Experience owning services end-to-end including maintenance of infrastructure
• Familiarity with Terraform, CI/CD, and observability tools