Full Stack Engineer

About Odyssey:

At Odyssey, our Mission is to enable access to high-quality education across the U.S. regardless of income, or zip code. With our proprietary technology, Odyssey makes educational choice easier, faster, and more accessible to parents in the jurisdictions that we serve. By partnering directly with state agencies and educational vendors, we help to streamline the process that empowers parents to find the tools necessary for their children to succeed.
As the first company designed specifically for education savings accounts (ESAs), our platform powers programs that collectively support more than 200,000 students across the US in accessing more than $2 billion in state funding.

About the Role:

As a Full Stack Engineer at Odyssey, you’ll build the core technology behind our platform. You’ll work across the stack on program eligibility systems, education fund ledgers, and a marketplace that enables schools and vendors to accept tuition and service payments.

This role focuses on building full-stack systems, including scalable services, APIs, data models, frontend UI, and internal tools that support families, schools, providers, and operational teams as the platform grows.

By joining our team, you will leverage your skills to make a direct impact on the quality and accessibility of K-12 education across the United States.

What You’ll Do:

• 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 to identify needs, formulate solutions, and bridge product gaps.

• Foster transparent communication within the team, sharing both challenges and successes openly.

• Contribute to system design, platform management, code reviews, and capacity planning.

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.

• 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.

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, and money movement.

• Experience owning services end-to-end including maintenance of infrastructure.

• Familiarity with Terraform, CI/CD and observability tools

Additional Details:

• This role is a hybrid position out of our NYC office in Tribeca.

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

• We believe that everyone at Odyssey should be compensated fairly. We set our salary bands based on compensation data from hundreds of companies at our stage. The salary range for this role is $160,000 - $180,000 depending on experience, interview performance and location.

• Odyssey benefits include Medical/Dental/Vision plan(s), health services, short term disability, unlimited PTO and more.

Our Commitment to Equal Opportunity Employment:

Odyssey is an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.

Why Odyssey:

Sitting at the intersection of tech, government, and education, Odyssey offers potential applicants an immediate and substantive impact for students and families. Supported by well-known investors and advisors, we are gaining traction quickly with ample opportunity for growth. As our team expands, we are looking for top-tier talent to join our mission in driving the future of education forward. Join us if you believe in the power of education as the single most important investment we can make as Americans today