Staff Engineer (AI-Native) (Full time contractor - India)
About the role
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 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 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.