Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Outschool's engineering team as a leader, collaborating with product managers, designers, and researchers to build high-quality products for parents, learners, educators, and partners. Lead requirements gathering, technical planning, and architectural decisions. Champion reliability and high code quality standards. Mentor and upskill engineers, supporting hiring and onboarding. Build and maintain software solutions across the entire stack, from React+HTML+CSS to GraphQL+Node.js+SQL. Engage in daily team activities, including standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and deployments. Outschool values hands-on experience and a passion for inspiring children to learn through technology.

Requirements

• 6+ years of industry experience working as an Engineer
• Experience leading projects with 3 or more engineers
• Experience improving engineers' skills and raising code quality across projects
• 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
• English communication skills (intermediate or higher reading, writing, speaking and listening)

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
• Lead requirements gathering, technical planning and architectural decisions
• Champion reliability and high code quality standards amongst the engineering team
• Mentor and upskill engineers and support hiring and onboarding new engineers
• 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 day-to-day activities such as standup meetings, sprint planning, retros, deploying features in production and on-call

Benefits

• Competitive salaries, stock options, and investment plans that make saving for retirement easier
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage options for employees and their families
• Our medical benefits include fertility and family planning coverage
• We also provide employees with online access to coaching and therapy sessions
• PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends
• We create a remote culture through expensable meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance
• Annual budgets to self-direct our professional development as well as DEI learning
• There’s also a budget for employees’ learners to take classes on Outschool!
• Outschool matches employee donations to established charities and has committed to support Outschool.org’s non-profit programs
• 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)