Lead Software Engineer - AI
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to competitive salary, remote opportunities, and meaningful impact in education technology.
- Competitive starting salary of $198,000 annually
- Remote flexibility with the chance to impact education positively
- Requires significant experience in AI and software development
- High expectations for performance may lead to pressure
Pros
- High starting salary ($198,000 per year) in a growing industry
- Fully remote or hybrid work options available
- Role directly contributes to enhancing educational outcomes
Cons
- Requires extensive technical experience (6+ years)
- May involve high expectations regarding project delivery
- Can be competitive due to the strong candidate pool
Who it's for
Senior • Remote / Hybrid
Good fit
- Senior software engineers with AI development experience
- Individuals passionate about educational improvement
- Those seeking a leading role in tech for education
Not recommended for
- Junior developers or candidates lacking relevant experience
- Professionals not interested in the education sector
- Individuals preferring non-technical positions
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
About Panorama:
Panorama Education is a fast-growing technology company partnering with K-12 school districts to help students succeed in the classroom and beyond. Today, 2,000 districts serving 15 million students across all 50 states rely on our secure, research-backed platform for AI, student support, and community voice and engagement. We also provide professional development and hands-on support to help schools to achieve their strategic goals and improve student outcomes. When you join Panorama, you become part of a mission-driven team making a real impact for students every day.
Panoramians can choose to work fully remote anywhere within the Continental United States.
About Panorama:
Panorama is a fast-growing national technology company focused on radically improving education. More than 1,500 school systems serving 15 million students across all 50 states have adopted our platform to understand students’ academic and social-emotional strengths and to identify those in need of additional support. School systems turn to our suite of tools to ensure that every child gets the support they need, including school climate and social-emotional learning surveys, tiered intervention planning, and professional development.
Panoramians can choose to work fully remote anywhere within the Continental United States, in-person from our Boston/San Francisco offices, or a hybrid option. Our culture is fully remote-first.
About the Role:
This Lead AI Software Engineer role will focus primarily on Panorama’s generative AI products, Solara and Class Companion. Solara is a secure, district-customizable AI platform that helps educators quickly generate resources like intervention plans, family communications, and lesson ideas, all while safeguarding student privacy. Class Companion, integrated within Solara, brings real-time AI feedback and tutoring into classrooms, offering instant rubric-aligned feedback, individual student support, and educator insights. In this role, you will lead the design and implementation of AI-powered features across these products to support educators in improving student outcomes.
Our Lead Software Engineers are engineering leaders who use their technical skills and knowledge to support a squad of engineers through mentorship, collaboration, and role modeling. They serve as bridges among engineering and partners across product, design, and other Panorama teammates. They continuously work to align their squad with Panorama’s broader goals, and they contribute to the creation and evolution of those goals. Lead engineers work as engineers on a squad, and they influence the team by elevating voices, mentoring, modeling best practices, and building alignment towards key technical and organizational decisions.
Responsibilities:
- Design and deliver generative AI-powered features using Anthropic’s Large Language Models through AWS Bedrock
- Evaluate emerging technologies to inform and accelerate product innovation
- Collaborate within a cross-functional team to design, build, test, review, debug, and deploy code that serves students and educators
- Mentor teammates by sharing technical expertise, best practices, and domain knowledge
- Partner closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to incorporate diverse perspectives and ensure alignment with company goals
- Share industry and Panorama best practices to strengthen squad strategy and improve delivery outcomes
- Foster an inclusive culture of open feedback and idea-sharing, enabling teammates to contribute their perspectives and experiences to build stronger products
Our Ideal Candidate Has:
- Has 6+ years experience developing production-level code in Ruby on Rails, Vue.js & TypeScript
- Has 3+ years experience with web app development and deployment
- Has 2+ years of hands-on experience building integrations with Large Language Models (e.g., OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, or Google Gemini)
- Has experience rapidly prototyping and iterating on new ideas to validate product concepts with diverse stakeholders
Has experience breaking down and shaping the scope and technical requirements of a series of several projects to help optimize for overall team delivery
- Has experience working on a cross-functional team of engineers and non-engineers
Salary: the starting base salary for this role is $198,000/Anually
The final salary offered will be based on several factors, including your overal experience and how the interviews go, but not limited to that. annually
Our salary is just one component of Panorama’s competitive total rewards strategy that also includes annual bonuses or commission awards, equity awards, as well as other region-specific health and welfare benefits
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