Senior Front-end Software Engineer

Overview:

We are looking for Senior Front-End Engineers 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:

At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) -  the company behind Varsity Tutors - we’re redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI™ platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale. We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you’d bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.

Fortune favors the bold. Join us.

How we compete:

• AI-Native at every level
  From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you’re not wielding AI, you’re not done.

• Entrepreneurial velocity
  Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.

• Free-market rigor
  Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.

• Full-stack ownership
  You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.

• Reward for contribution
  Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both what you achieve and how you achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded.

• Relentless exploration
  Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.

• Is Apolitical
  You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes.

If you’re a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition, personal responsibility, and the chance to redefine how the world learns - while continually stretching the limits of what generative AI can do - come do the most ambitious and rewarding work of your career here. Learn more at nerdy.com.

Nerdy’s shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy:

• Q1-2025 Shareholder Letter

• Q4-2024 Shareholder Letter

• Q3-2024 Shareholder Letter

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.
• Experience with Cursor or other AI-coding 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.