Overview : We are looking for a Staff Engineer in Hyderabad, Pune, or Bengaluru to join the engineering team! In this role, you will set technical direction across both front-end and back-end systems, helping shape the architecture, performance, reliability, and user experience of our learning platform. You will provide hands-on technical leadership across squads, partner closely with Product and Design, and drive the development of scalable, secure-by-default, AI-powered customer experiences.

This is a high-impact role for an engineer who can move fluidly across the stack, from high-traffic user interfaces to high-scale services, while mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across the organization.

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 excellent 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.

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

- Q1-2026 Shareholder Letter
- Q4-2025 Shareholder Letter
- Q3-2025 Shareholder Letter

Responsibilities

- Technical Leadership: Serve as the technical point of reference for the squad and broader engineering team, ensuring best practices in architecture, performance optimization, and accessibility standards are upheld.
- Solution Design: Lead the design and architectural discussions for systems, making pivotal decisions on frameworks, state management patterns, component architecture, and design systems.
- Code Quality: Advocate for and ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code. Conduct regular code reviews and provide mentorship to team members.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers,



and other stakeholders to understand requirements, provide technical insights, and ensure the timely delivery of features.
- Strategy and Vision: Contribute to the engineering department's strategy and vision, bringing innovative ideas to improve our customer-facing experiences.
- Problem Solving: Address complex technical challenges, innovate solutions, and optimize existing systems for scalability and performance.
- Team Development: Mentor and develop team members, helping them to grow in their technical roles and careers.
- AI Enablement: Leverage AI-native tools and approaches to improve development speed, product capabilities, and engineering effectiveness across the software lifecycle.

Qualifications :

- Strong full-stack expertise, including domain in: Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript

Backend: Javascript, Java, Golang

- Explicit mentoring of senior-level engineers regularly, leading to results.
- Significant experience in AWS-based cloud architecture environments.
- In-depth knowledge of modern software engineering practices, design patterns, and architectures.- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.- Demonstrated experience in collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- A strong owner willing to roll up their sleeves. This role includes coding and reviewing the code of others.
- Ability to implement customer-facing solutions that solve the customers' true needs with exceptional user experiences.
- Nerdy is an apolitical company focused solely on helping people learn, and we achieve the most when united in this mission.

**Unleash Your Pote

📌 Staff Engineer (Ai-native) (Full Time Contractor - India)
🏢 Nerdy
📍 Pune