Software Engineer
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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
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
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Stock options
- Retirement plans
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- Annual wellness stipend
- Access to coaching & therapy
- Pet wellness plans
- Generous PTO
- Family leave policies
- Support for expensable home office setup and internet
- Annual budgets for professional development and DEI learning
- Budgets for children to take Outschool classes
- Outschool matches employee donations to eligible charities
- Supports Outschool.org’s nonprofit programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
