Software Engineer - Remote

Overview

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.

The Role

We are an effective team of engineers distributed across the US and Canada and now expanding internationally. 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/Express backed by PostgreSQL.

We believe that the future of education is hybrid - online and in person. We are looking for engineers at a variety of 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!

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with a team of Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, User Researchers, and Product Analysts in building high-quality products for parents, learners, educators and partners.
• Build and maintain software solutions on all levels of our stack from React+HTML+CSS to GraphQL+Node.js+SQL
• Engage with the team in gathering requirements, day-to-day activities such as standup meetings, sprint planning, retros, deploying features in production and on-call

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• 3+ years of industry experience working as an Engineer
• Experience working in modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React) and Node-based applications
• Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience writing APIs with Javascript/Typescript
• Track record of ownership of technical projects
• English communication skills (intermediate or higher reading, writing, speaking and listening)

BENEFITS

• Coworking Office located directly at exit 11, Jangsan Station in beautiful Haeundae, Busan.
• Necessary equipment (MacBook, monitor, etc.) and software for work provided
• Finish work early in the day - working hours from 7AM - 3PM.
• Flexible vacation, use whenever you like. Korean national holidays plus 15 extra days per year.
• Invitation to join the annual company retreat once per year (flight to United States, hotel, meals paid for by company).