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 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!
This role will be a hybrid position in San Francisco, with 1-3 days/week in our SoMa office.
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:
- 4+ 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 $130,000-$200,000.
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- 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.
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What We Do
Outschool is an online learning platform that empowers kids 3-18 to learn on their own terms with the widest variety of teachers, topics, and classes to suit any interest. We offer interactive, small-group classes via video that are fun and social, can be taken any time, and clubs that connect learners around their favorite topics. With Outschool, learners are free to pursue their interests, connect with others around shared passions, and build confidence through progress. Since 2015, we’ve partnered with vetted, diverse, expert teachers to give kids everywhere greater access to high-quality education.
With Outschool, kids can go beyond the classroom to discover topics they love.
Why Work With Us
We exist to set learning free, to break through the barriers to education, increase access and give back control. For every kid pursuing any interest. For every parent seeking greater choice. For every teacher not satisfied with the status quo. We’re here to unleash the love of learning by reimagining what education can be.
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