Bloomy is an AI-native K-12 tutoring and curriculum platform that diagnoses student skill gaps, maps personalized learning paths, and uses an AI tutor that adapts to each student’s learning to boost efficiency; early pilots report students learning roughly twice as fast, the product reached 500 students across six schools, and ARR has roughly doubled every two weeks after starting YC S26. The founder, a former teacher and sales leader (non-engineer), currently orchestrates fleets of coding agents that generate much of the code and curriculum; the stack is TypeScript/React, Supabase/Postgres, Vercel, and agent-driven pipelines. The company emphasizes very short feedback loops - merged code can be used by a sixth grader the next school day - and aims to build a closed data flywheel linking telemetry to instruction and robust agent orchestration for classroom-ready outputs.
The founding engineer will ship production features immediately, take ownership of agent fleets, build specs, harnesses, and QA gates, and split time roughly between shipping product, running agent infrastructure, and talking to teachers and districts to shape the roadmap. Ideal candidates have 5+ years shipping user-facing products, expert use of AI coding tools (without abdicating judgment), comfort managing concurrent agents, tolerance for school-specific operational work, and experience with LLMs, telemetry, and pipelines. Compensation is $175K-$200K plus 1.5-2% equity; email [email protected] with something you’ve built that real people used.
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