Software Engineer

The Company :

Outschools mission is to inspire kids to love 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.

Weve 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. Were 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 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. Were 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 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 fromReact HTML CSS to GraphQL 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 :

Other Considerations :

The annual salary range for this San Francisco-based role is $160000-$236500

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Benefits & Culture :

At Outschool we believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means :

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 .

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 else where should be aware that we may discard your application upon submissionor 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 Noticefor 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.

Key Skills

Spring,.NET,C / C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,Data Structures,JavaScript,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 160000 - 236500