Outschool

Staff Software Engineer

Outschool
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5 months ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Drive complex, high-impact engineering initiatives across personalized discovery, payments, reimbursement workflows, supply eligibility, and related areas.
  • Partner with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering leadership on roadmap priorities, technical tradeoffs, risks, and execution strategy.
  • Use agentic development workflows and help establish AI development principles and best practices.
  • Mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams.
  • Participate in stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, production deployments, and on-call rotations.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of software engineering experience.
  • Proficiency in full-stack development with TypeScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in AI-native development and experience leading teams into AI-native workflows.
  • Senior technical leadership experience, including setting direction, making architectural decisions, and raising the bar for a team.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Experience in EdTech or building products for learners, educators, or families is preferred.
  • Familiarity with search and discovery systems is preferred.
  • Background in marketplace technologies is preferred.
  • Experience at a fast-paced startup or high-growth company is preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, stock options, and retirement plans.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, fertility and family planning coverage, and ModernHealth coaching and therapy.
  • Generous paid time off and family leave policies.
  • Hybrid work for Bay Area employees and fully remote work for employees outside the Bay Area across the U.S. and Canada.
  • Commute-related benefits for Bay Area employees and support for eligible home office setup, internet, and weekly meals for remote employees.
  • Annual professional development and DEI learning budgets, plus budgets for children to take Outschool classes.
  • Employee donation matching and support for nonprofit programs.
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About Outschool

1,001-5,000 employees

Outschool builds an online marketplace for K–12 learners to take live small-group and self-paced classes taught by independent teachers across thousands of subjects. Families enroll kids directly and pay per class, while Outschool handles discovery, payments, scheduling, and safety tools and takes a marketplace fee; it also supports homeschool and other alternative education paths. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held.

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