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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 platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human.
We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live 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 1.5M 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 is looking for full-stack Software Engineers to develop and improve our suite of products to help parents, learners, and educators to engage in love of learning, all through an agentic-first development paradigm. There is a wide variety of exciting and high-impact engineering challenges for the right candidate from smart UI to personalization to AI assistance to data optimization to tooling to platforms. We’re hiring across levels - from early-career SWEs through senior architects - and will scope the role based on your experience, strengths, and the problems that inspire you and where you can have the biggest impacts.
Drive complex, high-impact engineering initiatives across a variety of product innovation areas
Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering leadership to align on roadmap priorities, technical tradeoffs, risks, and execution strategy
Demonstrate AI-native development mindset leveraging fully agentic development workflows, while also contributing to establishing principles and best practices on AI development
For senior roles, mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams through strong collaboration, communication, and domain expertise
Participate in standups, sprint planning, retros, production deployments, and on-call rotations
Professional software engineering experience; level will be determined based on experience and scope.
Proficiency in some of: TypeScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL
Proven track record of both demonstrated proficiency in AI-native development, and leading teams into it
For senior roles, demonstrated technical leadership: you've set direction, made architectural calls, and raised the bar for a team
Strong communication and collaboration skills - you can translate technical complexity into clarity for engineers, product partners, and leadership alike
Experience in EdTech or building products for learners, educators, or families
Familiarity with search, discovery, personalization, AI, tooling, data insights, and/or payment systems
Background in marketplace technologies
Experience at a fast-paced startup or high-growth company
Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for equity and benefits. Additional details are provided during the interview process.
For Canadian-based candidates, compensation range for this role is $90,000 - $229,500 CAD annually.
This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:
US Tier 1: San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, and Seattle Metro
US Tier 2: All California excluding San Francisco Bay Area, Boston Metro, Chicago Metro, Denver Metro, Austin Metro, Portland Metro
US Tier 3: All other cities and states
US Tier 1: $130,500 - $291,600
US Tier 2: $110,925 - $247,860
US Tier 3: $97,875 - $218,700
At Outschool, we believe that taking care of another enables us to do our best work
Health: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
Wellness: Annual wellness stipend, access to coaching & therapy, and pet wellness plans
PTO & Family Benefits: Generous PTO and family leave policies
Hybrid & Remote-Friendly: Outschool has a distributed team across the U.S. and Canada and an 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 and internet 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.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact mailto:[email protected] [email protected].
_Benefits packages are included for full-time employees. _Please note benefits and perks may vary for employees based outside of the US and Canada.
_Full-time employees must be a citizen or legal residents of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada, unless specifically indicated otherwise. _
Once you submit your application, Outschool will process your personal data to evaluate your candidacy for employment. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, we hire employees in the U.S. and Canada. Applicants else where should be aware that we may discard your application upon submission or we may ask if you would like us to retain it later should there be consideration (this is not typical at all). If you are selected for interviewing, your data will be shared with interviewers and personnel involved in that process. If not hired, your application will be retained for year in case there is another suitable role. You may opt out of this at any time. Please see our https://outschool.com/pages/privacy-Emp Employee/Applicant Privacy Notice for more detailed information. If applicable, as you progress through the process, we will be clear about what information is being asked for and what happens with that information.
Benefits: Generous PTO and family leave policies
How to apply for Software Engineer at Outschool?
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What is the salary for this role?
The salary for this role is $100 per annum.
What experience is required?
This position is open to freshers and experienced candidates.
Is this position still open?
Yes, currently active and accepting applications.
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