Senior Software Engineer (Full-time Contractor)
Remote - Chile
As a Senior Software 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 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 general 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 lear
📌 Senior Software Engineer (Chile)
🏢 Nerdy
📍 Chile