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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 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.Outschool has been named Fast Company’s most innovative EdTech company in the world, and one of the top ten best startups for women from Elpha. Outschool has also been one of BuiltIn’s Best Remote Places to Work for the last two years and has appeared on Y Combinator’s Top Companies list for the last three years.
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 work in modern JavaScript (TypeScript), React, GraphQL/Apollo, and Node/Express, backed by PostgreSQL. Our consumer search is powered by Elasticsearch, 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!
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collaborate with a team of Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, User Researchers, and Product Analysts 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
- Experience working in modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, etc.) and Node-based applications
- Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
- Experience writing APIs with Typescript
- Track record of ownership of large technical projects
- Willingness to mentor others in what you know
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
- Previous experience in startups, especially in the hypergrowth phase
- Experience working with a payments system
- Previous edtech experience
- 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 salary range for this role would be $160,000-$215,000
For Washington candidates outside of Seattle, as well as Colorado candidates, the salary range for this role would be $144,000-$193,500
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