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Staff Software Engineer

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

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About Outschool

Backed by Lightspeed, Y Combinator and USV.

About the role

Outschool is looking for a full-stack Staff Software Engineer to help develop an exciting new ambitious product platform with an agentic-first development approach. The platform will help millions of families to discover and access public-funded educational resources, and deliver a personalized, AI-guided planning journey that eases the burden of navigating public-funded alternative education for families.

What they're looking for

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proficiency in full-stack development: TypeScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL
  • Proven track record of both demonstrated proficiency in AI-native development, and leading teams into it
  • Demonstrated senior 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
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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