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Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

Outschool · Remote (U.S. & Canada) · Remote

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About Outschool

Backed by Lightspeed, Y Combinator and USV.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack to join our Product Engineering team in South Korea. The team’s mission is to build high-quality product experiences that help learners, families, and educators connect and succeed on Outschool.

What they're looking for

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong experience building modern web applications with React, TypeScript, and Node.js
  • Experience designing and building APIs and backend services, ideally using GraphQL, REST, or similar technologies
  • Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including data modeling and query design
  • Experience owning complex technical projects from design through implementation, launch, and ongoing operation
  • Understanding of software architecture, testing, performance, reliability, and maintainability in production systems
More about this role

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 1.5M 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...

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