Senior Software Engineer, Frontend
Lirvana Labs
Software Engineering
Menlo Park, CA, USA
Posted on Aug 15, 2025
About Us
Lirvana Labs is an early-stage, VC-backed ed-tech startup turning the dream of truly personalized learning into everyday reality. Backed by Kapor Capital and other mission-aligned investors, with design and development partners such as Sesame Workshop, TNTP, Educators Rising, Stanford University’s Deliberative Democracy Lab, MIT Solve and MIT Raise, we are racing toward our next horizon of impact and ground-breaking use of AI to push the envelope in learning, teaching and coaching.
Our flagship suite combines Yeti Confetti Kids—a playful AI tutor that adapts on the fly—with a Teacher Co-Pilot Portal that delivers real-time insights and one-click actions for educators. Under the hood, we’re pushing LLMs to the edge of what’s possible in recommendation, session planning, and formative feedback, ensuring each student gets just-right challenges while teachers stay firmly in the loop.
We’re gearing up to expand our elementary literacy, math and SEL programming success beyond K12, with new and existing market expansion across APAC, the Middle East, and the U.S. Join us if you’d rather build the future of education than wait for it.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer,Frontend with strong frontend UI, UX development experience to help build high-quality, scalable applications across web and mobile platforms. You’ll play a key role in shaping both the user experience and the underlying architecture of our product. If you’re passionate about Flutter, React, and building beautiful, performant applications, we’d love to hear from you.
What You’ll Do
Design & Develop: Architect, design, and implement robust, scalable frontend applications using Flutter (Dart) and/or React. Deliver high-quality features across web, and optionally iOS/Android platforms.
Deploy:Own and manage the deployment process to the web (and optionally to iOS/Android using Flutter). Ensure smooth CI/CD pipelines and scalable release workflows.
Lead & Mentor: Take ownership of major features from conception to deployment. Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and technical guidance.
Innovate & Improve: Drive technical excellence by identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks, advocating for clean code, maintainable architecture, and testing best practices.
Collaborate: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to create seamless user experiences. Contribute to early-stage feature planning and prototyping.
What You’ll Bring
- 5+years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong experience with Flutter and/or React or similar UI framework
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles
- Experience deploying and maintaining apps on web (knowledge of iOS and Android deployment is a plus)
- Comfortable collaborating with designers and translating designs to usable interfaces
- Experience working in an agile team environment
- Familiar with performance optimization, debugging tools, and frontend architecture patterns
- Bonus: Experience with animations, state management (e.g., Provider, Riverpod, Redux), or hybrid app architectures
- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Even Better If You Have
- Experience deploying Flutter apps to iOS and Android
- Familiarity with backend integration, REST APIs, and GraphQL
- Knowledge of accessibility, and responsive design best practices
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- High Impact: Career-defining chance to architect cutting edge applications and cloud platforms from the ground-up.
- Professional Growth: Deepen your expertise in cloud architecture, microservices design, AI, and automation.
- Collaborative Culture: Join a cross-functional team that values transparency, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing.
Next Steps
Ready to apply? We’d love to hear from you. To help us understand your experience, please include a brief note in your application describing a challenging project you’ve worked on involving scaling high-performance mobile and web applications. We're particularly interested in your role and the technical decisions you helped make.
Our Hiring Philosophy
We know that the "perfect" candidate doesn't exist, and that skills can be learned. We're more interested in your passion for this work, your potential, and what you can add to our team. If you believe you have what it takes, but don't meet every single bullet point, please apply anyway!