Experienced Software Engineer Remote-US & Canada

Outschool, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking talented engineers to join their fully remote team. In this role, you will contribute to building engaging educational tools that inspire children to learn. With a focus on collaboration and iteration, you will work on a dynamic product that caters to a diverse audience. This position offers the chance to grow your skills while making a positive impact in the education sector. Join a passionate team that values curiosity, resilience, and creativity in shaping the future of learning.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

PTO

Family leave

Remote work allowance

Professional development budget

Community impact matching donations

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks and Node-based applications.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build high-quality products.
• Maintain software solutions across the tech stack.

Skills

React

Node.js

Typescript

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

Next.JS

Software Development

Mentorship

Tools

AWS

Covey

Job description

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.

About The Role:

We are an effective team of fully remote engineers distributed across the US and Canada. 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 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!

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:

• 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.

Other Considerations:

• Previous experience in startups.
• Experience integrating with a payments system.
• Experience with Next.JS, GraphQL, AWS, and experimentation frameworks.

Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living. For New York and California candidates, as well as candidates based in Seattle, WA, the annual salary range for this role is $160,000-$215,000. For Washington candidates outside of Seattle, as well as Colorado candidates, the salary range for this role is $144,000-$193,500.

We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications.

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 investment plans that make saving for retirement easier.
• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage options for employees and their families. Our medical benefits include fertility and family planning coverage. We also provide employees with online access to coaching and therapy sessions.
• PTO & Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
• Fully Distributed: We create a remote culture through expensable meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
• Lifelong Learners: Annual budgets to self-direct our professional development as well as DEI learning. There’s also a budget for employees’ learners to take classes on Outschool!
• Community Impact : Outschool matches employee donations to established charities and has committed to support Outschool.org ’s non-profit programs.

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.