Experienced Software Engineer

The Company:

Outschool’s mission is to inspire kids to love learning. In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners. Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education. By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human.

We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017. Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019. Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community. We're proud to have served over 1M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.   Driving disruptive, positive change in education is rewarding and hard. Outschool team members are encouraged to challenge themselves, take risks, and grow in their careers. We look for talented people whose sense of urgency, innate curiosity, and determination to drive impact will help Outschool achieve outsized results in pursuit of our mission. We invite you to be part of an ambitious team dedicated to ensuring every learner can navigate the future with curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning.

About The Role: 

We are an effective team of fully remote engineers distributed across the US and Canada. Our philosophy is to start small and then intentionally iterate to test our assumptions and learn quickly. We're iteratively building up a complex product for a highly engaged audience, getting a lot done by staying focused on the work that matters.

We work in modern JavaScript (TypeScript), React, GraphQL/Apollo, and Node, backed by PostgreSQL. Our consumer search is powered by OpenSearch, fed with data from Kafka.  

We believe that the future of education is hybrid: online and in-person. We are looking for engineers at various experience levels who are excited about inspiring children to learn by building tools that allow children to access a fundamentally different learning experience. We value hands-on experience most of all. If this opportunity sounds fun and interesting to you, feel free to apply!

This will be a hybrid position in San Francisco. 

Core Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a team of Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers in building high-quality products for parents, learners, educators and partners
• Build and maintain software solutions on all levels of our stack from React, Typescript, HTML and CSS to Next.JS, Node.js, GraphQL, and SQL
• Engage with the team in gathering requirements, day-to-day activities such as daily standups, sprint planning, retros, deploying features in production and on-call

Desired Experience & Skills: 

• 8+ years of industry experience working as an Engineer, working in modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React) and Node-based applications
• Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience writing APIs with Typescript
• Track record of ownership of complex technical projects
• Willingness to mentor others in what you know

Other Considerations: 

• Previous experience in startups
• Experience integrating with a payments system
• Previous EdTech experience
• Experience with Next.JS, GraphQL, AWS, and experimentation frameworks

The annual salary range for this San Francisco-based role is $185,000-$230,000.

 

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Benefits & Culture:

At Outschool, we believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, retirement plans.
• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance — plus fertility/family planning coverage and access to ModernHealth coaching & therapy.
• PTO & Family Benefits: Generous PTO and family leave policies.
• Hybrid & Remote-Friendly: Outschool has a distributed team across the U.S.