Company overview

Crimson Education is the world’s leading college admissions consulting firm, with over 1,490 Ivy League offers and 2,410 to the US Top 15. We help ambitious students gain admission to the world’s top universities through expert-led guidance and proven, data-driven strategies. Crimson students are 7x more likely to get into the Ivy League than their peers. We were recently featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.

Crimson is the only college admissions consultancy that brings together:

• Former Ivy League and Top 20 admissions officers to rigorously review and refine applications

• Professors and PhD teaching fellows from leading universities to guide students through original, independent research — with pathways to selective peer-reviewed publication or conference presentation

• Past ISEF winners and judges who coach students to compete for state, national, and international science fair awards

• Capstone project mentors who help students design and scale leadership initiatives with real-world impact, measurable outcomes, and credible external validation

We’re backed by leading VC firms, including Tiger Global, Heal Partners, IceHouse Ventures, and Movac, and recently closed a USD $40M Series D funding round at a USD $640M valuation. We now operate across 21 markets worldwide, including the US, Canada, UK, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand.

Role Responsibilities

Platform development: Work with our product and engineering teams to evolve our platform using a modern full-stack JavaScript stack (React, Tanstack Start, Node.js, Hono, PostgreSQL + Prisma, Tailwind CSS). You’ll tackle interesting technical challenges with real-world impact.

R&D and AI integration: Explore and validate use-cases for large language models (LLMs) to improve the customer experience and accelerate internal workflows. You’ll help test, optimise, and implement model-based features with an emphasis on performance, accuracy, and reliability.

Security and privacy by design: Because we handle sensitive personal and corporate data, security is core to everything we build. You’ll help develop guardrails such as encryption at rest, data siloing, and strict controls on PII exposure - especially in the context of third-party or AI-driven systems.

Product shaping: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design workflows, automations, and product enhancements that scale across multiple jurisdictions and visa categories. You’ll have significant input into how our platform evolves as we expand globally.

Experience and skills

Experience: 3+ years in software development, ideally with exposure to complex applications, SaaS platforms, or high-growth startups.

Technical fluency: Experience with modern JS frameworks across the stack (TypeScript, React, Node.js) and SQL-based databases. Familiarity with AI frameworks or APIs is a bonus, but having a solid grasp of how AI works and its current limitations is preferred.

Problem-solving mindset: You thrive on untangling complex problems and delivering elegant, straightforward solutions.

Product-obsessed: You care about what you build - not just the code, but how it feels and performs for users.

Curiosity: You’re a natural tinkerer who enjoys experimenting with new tools, paradigms, and technologies in a fast-moving space.

Communication: Strong written and verbal skills, comfortable working with diverse stakeholders - from startup founders to HR leaders and legal team.

Why work for Crimson?

• Rapidly growing start up, with a flexible working environment where you will be empowered to structure how you work

• Limitless development and exposure - our internal promotions/role changes made up 33% of all recruitment last year

• $1000 individual training budget per year, we love to ‘Level Up’ (it’s one of our core values)!

• Psychologist on staff

• Insightful fireside chats and workshops to help support our high-performing and ambitious team

• Radical Candor is a feedback approach we live by

• We’re a global player with 28 markets (and growing) across the globe. Most roles have the option to work from one of our many offices or remotely!

If you're passionate about growing in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and want to work with cutting-edge technology, then we'd love to hear from you!

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