- Location
- San Jose, United States · Remote
- Compensation
- Not stated in this snapshot
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience level
- MID (2–5 years exp)
- Specialization
- Software Engineer, Wellfound
- Source
- Wellfound
About hru?
hru? helps teachers reach students who miss school. When a student is absent, they get a personalized check-in, and their teacher gets an AI-drafted reply to review, edit, and send. A human reviews every message. It’s built for alternative and continuation high schools, where chronic absence is highest. Founded by a classroom teacher and selected as one of 12 projects, from 305 applications, for the Stanford Accelerator for Learning’s Create+AI Challenge.
The app works and is deployed. We need an experienced developer to make it secure, reliable, and ready for real schools.
The opportunity
This starts as a paid contract, but I’m looking for more than a contractor. hru? has a founder with deep classroom expertise and no technical co-founder. For the right person, this can grow into a long-term technical partner role, shaping the product and the company from the ground up. That role would include equity, with terms worked out together.
What you’ll do
- Review the existing codebase (built with AI-assisted development) and identify security and reliability gaps
- Harden authentication, access control (Postgres Row-Level Security), and session handling
- Set up error monitoring, backups, and alerts
- Review how student data is stored, protected, and deleted, with FERPA in mind
- Fix outstanding back-end bugs
- Document your changes so the founder can maintain the system
Stack:
Next.js (React, TypeScript), Supabase (Postgres, Auth, RLS), Anthropic API, Vercel, Resend
What you bring
- Production experience with Next.js and Supabase or Postgres
- Strong security fundamentals: auth, RLS, secrets management, data protection
- Experience handling sensitive data
- Clear communication with a non-technical founder
Bonus points
- Experience with FERPA, COPPA, or HIPAA
- Experience shipping apps to the App Store and Google Play (for example, with Capacitor)
- Edtech or youth-serving product experience
- Interest in education and in building something long-term
Details
- Contract, part-time, remote (founder based in San José, CA)
- Starts with a scoped security and reliability review. Native iOS and Android packaging is possible future work.
- Compensation: $50 to $100 per hour, depending on experience. Fixed-fee proposals for the initial review are also welcome.
To apply Send links to past work (GitHub, portfolio, or shipped apps), a few sentences about a similar project you’ve done, especially involving security or sensitive data, and your availability and rate. If the partner path interests you, tell me why. References will be requested for finalists.
Important Note: I'm a practicing public school teacher, and this position is for a project separate from my teaching role. Please respond through this posting only. Do not contact me at my district email.