🚀 Role Overview

Awarded Software is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to accelerate our vision for a world with fairer, more accessible and more transparent scholarships.

$240B in financial aid is available every year, yet billions of dollars are wasted, hurting students and donors alike. The scholarship ecosystem is rife with decades-old processes and problems: paper-based applications, excel sheets that pass through 6-10 people with minimal version and quality control, lack of automation, and countless opportunities left on the table to transform students’ lives.

Today, Awarded has built a transformational product that has been adopted by universities all across the United States. We are looking for a talented and ambitious engineer to join our team, accelerate our pace and help us expand our business.

🎯 Key Objectives

1. Design and implement the expansion of our core backend to model and solve complex scholarship workflow problems of colleges & universities both large and small
2. Drive initiatives to more seamlessly connect Awarded with our customers’ systems
3. Become an expert across our entire stack, contributing best-in-class code to our frontend, backend, and infrastructure with a balance of performance and maintainability

🌟 What Defines Success

• Excellence in Code: Your code isn't just functional; it's a work of art - efficient, maintainable, and scalable.
• Accelerated Outcomes: You maintain a high pace of development, pushing the product forward to new frontiers and continuously delivering value for end-users
• Autonomous Leader: Self-driven and resourceful, you are as independent as you are collaborative

🔍 Skills & Experience

• Strong Technical Foundation: You have a demonstrated track record of delivering complex software solutions with high quality . Bonus points if you are especially proficient in:
  • Frontend: Typescript, React, Next.js
  • Backend: Python, GraphQL, Postgres, FastAPI
  • Infrastructure: Terraform, AWS, Docker, Render
• Autonomous Problem Solver: You're a quick learner, undaunted by new challenges, and proficient from day one.
• Startup Savvy: Experience thriving in an early-stage startup environment, demonstrating agility, resilience, and a hands-on approach.

👬 Meet The Founders

Pranav Kunapuli (co-founder & CTO) is a University of Pennsylvania graduate who has demonstrated excellence at both large companies and small startups. He began his career at Bloomberg where he continuously drove initiatives for customers using his team’s high-throughput trading API. At Pinwheel, a then-series A startup, Pranav spearheaded development on the early stages of their recurring access product. He played a critical role in building the product engineering team and mentoring new engineers. Pranav is passionate about helping students afford higher education.

Amaan Badruddin is the co-founder and CEO of Awarded. Amaan comes from GoHealth, a company that aims to improve healthcare access in America, where he had responsibilities across sales, strategy & operations and FP&A, prior to working with the company’s Co-Founder and CEO as Chief of Staff, and saw the company from late stage funding through its IPO. Prior to GoHealth, Amaan worked at Bain & Company, a management consulting firm. He also previously served as CEO of Student Holdings, a portfolio of businesses serving the Northwestern and Chicago communities, as well as a board member on the Clark and Hinman Foundation, a non-profit providing merit-based scholarships to Northwestern students committed to service and leadership. Amaan graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Industrial Engineering.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Awarded Software does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.