Posted at: 8 April
Software Engineer
Company
Outschool is a San Francisco-based EdTech B2C platform offering a marketplace of live online classes for children aged 3-18, focusing on flexible and engaging learning experiences.
Remote Hiring Policy:
Outschool supports a hybrid and remote-friendly work environment, hiring primarily from the U.S. and Canada, with team members outside the Bay Area working fully remotely. Collaboration occurs during U.S. daytime hours (UTC-8 to UTC-5).
Job Type
Full-time
Full-timeAllowed Applicant Locations
United States, Canada
United States, CanadaSalary
$135,000 to $185,000 per year
$135,000 to $185,000 per yearJob Description
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.About The Role:
We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our AI Classroom Pod, a team at the forefront of building the next generation of learning experiences on Outschool. You'll be building AI-powered tools and interactive games that make learning more engaging for K–12 learners, while also building transparency features that help parents stay meaningfully connected to what their kids are exploring and achieving on the platform.
We are an effective team of engineers distributed across the US, Canada, and South Korea. 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!
We prioritize candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the expectation of working out of our SoMa office one day per week. That said, we are open to candidates outside the Bay Area based on experience and fit.
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, HTML, CSS, Next.JS to GraphQL, Node.js, 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:
- 3-5 years of experience in software engineering, 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
- Hands-on experience with AI software development tooling
- Proficiency in crafting, testing, and refining prompts to guide generative AI models
Other Considerations:
- Previous experience in startups
- Experience integrating with a payments system
- Previous EdTech experience
- Experience with Next.JS, GraphQL, AWS, and experimentation frameworks
Compensation:
Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living. This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:
US Tiers
US Tier 1: San Francisco Bay Area and New York City
US Tier 2: All California excluding San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle Metro, Boston Metro, Chicago Metro, Denver Metro, Austin Metro, Portland Metro
US Tier 3: All other cities and states
US Pay Zones
US Tier 1: $135,000-$185,000
US Tier 2: $115,000-$157,250
US Tier 3: $101,000-138,750
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Benefits & Culture:
- 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. and Canada and a new office in San Francisco. Bay Area–based employees work in the office part of the week and receive commute-related benefits. Team members outside the Bay Area remain fully remote, with support for expensable home office setup, internet, and weekly meals to stay connected no matter where you are.
- Lifelong Learners: Annual budgets for professional development and DEI learning; budgets for children to take Outschool classes.
- Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to eligible charities and supports Outschool.org’s nonprofit programs.
Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and competitive advantage. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.