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Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with a team of Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers in building high-quality products for parents, learners,

Requirements Summary

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, retirement plans.

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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.

About the Role

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We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our AI Classroom Pod, a team at the forefront of building the next generation of learning experiences on Outschool. You'll be building AI-powered tools and interactive games that make learning more engaging for K–12 learners, while also building transparency features that help parents stay meaningfully connected to what their kids are exploring and achieving on the platform.

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!

Responsibilities

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→Collaborate with a team of Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers in building high-quality products for parents, learners, educators and partners
→Build and maintain solutions across the full stack: from React, HTML, CSS, Next.JS on the frontend to GraphQL, Node.js, SQL on the backend
→Participate fully in standups, sprint planning, retros, production deployments, and on-call rotations

3-5 years of full-stack software engineering experience: you're equally comfortable on the frontend and backend
Strong proficiency in React and JavaScript
Experience building and maintaining Node.js-based applications
Solid experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
Experience writing APIs in TypeScript
Hands-on experience with AI development tooling
Ability to craft, test, and refine prompts to effectively guide generative AI models

Startup experience
EdTech background
Familiarity with Next.js, GraphQL, AWS, or experimentation frameworks

What We Offer

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Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living. This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:

US Tiers

US Tier 1: San Francisco Bay Area and New York City

US Tier 2: All California excluding San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle Metro, Boston Metro, Chicago Metro, Denver Metro, Austin Metro, Portland Metro

US Tier 3: All other cities and states

US Pay Zones

US Tier 1: $135,000-$185,000

US Tier 2: $115,000-$157,250

US Tier 3: $101,000-138,750

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What We Offer

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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.