Software Engineer

Outschool; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Retirement plans

Health insurance

Wellness stipend

PTO & family leave

Hybrid & remote-friendly

Professional development budgets

Community donations

Job summary

Outschool is hiring full-time full-stack Software Engineers to enhance our suite of products that help parents, learners, and educators engage in love of learning. Roles vary from early-career to senior architects and will be scoped to match experience and interests.

The team embraces AI-native development, cross-functional collaboration, and a fast-paced startup mindset. Role offers equity, benefits, and flexible work arrangements across the U.S. and Canada.

Qualifications

• Professional software engineer experience; level to be determined by experience and scope.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL.
• Proven track record in AI-native development and leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive complex, high-impact engineering initiatives across product areas.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering leadership on roadmap priorities.
• Demonstrate AI-native development mindset and establish best practices for AI development.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical direction for senior roles.
• Participate in standups, sprints, deployments, and on-call rotations.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node.js

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

AI-native

Technical leadership

Communication

Job 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 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.

Role

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.

Core Responsibilities

• 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

Desired Experience & Skills

• 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

Other Considerations

• 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

Compensation

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.

US Tiers

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 Pay Zones

US Tier 1: $130,500 - $291,600

US Tier 2: $110,925 - $247,860

US Tier 3: $97,875 - $218,700

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, and retirement plans.
• 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 [e-mail].

Benefits packages are included for full-time employees only. 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 only in the U.S. and Canada. Applicants elsewhere 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 one year in case there is another suitable role. You may opt out of this at any time. Please see our 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.