Experienced Software Engineer ID-12403
About the position
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. Outschool has been named Fast Company’s most innovative EdTech company in the world, and one of the top ten best startups for women from Elpha. Outschool has also been one of BuiltIn’s Best Remote Places to Work for the last two years and has appeared on Y Combinator’s Top Companies list for the last three years.
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
Requirements
- 5+ 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
Nice-to-haves
- Previous experience in startups
- Experience integrating with a payments system
- Previous EdTech experience
- Experience with Next.JS, GraphQL, AWS, and experimentation frameworks
Benefits
- Competitive salaries, stock options, and investment plans that make saving for retirement easier
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage options for employees and their families
- PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends
- Remote culture through expensable meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance
- Annual budgets to self-direct our professional development as well as DEI learning
- Outschool matches employee donations to established charities and has committed to support Outschool.org’s non-profit programs
