Software Engineer

Summary

Join Outschool, a fast-growing EdTech company, as a fully remote engineer contributing to our innovative online learning platform. We're building a complex product using modern JavaScript technologies like React, GraphQL, and Node.js. You will collaborate with a team of engineers, product managers, and designers to create high-quality products for parents, learners, educators, and partners. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in software engineering, proficiency in front-end frameworks, and experience with relational databases. We offer competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive remote work environment. Outschool is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience working as an Engineer, 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 Typescript
• Track record of ownership of complex technical projects
• Willingness to mentor others in what you know

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a team of Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers 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+Next.JS to GraphQL+Node.js+SQL
• Engage with the team in gathering requirements, day-to-day activities such as daily standups, sprint planning, retros, deploying features in production and on-call

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in startups
• Experience integrating with a payments system
• Previous EdTech experience
• Experience with Next.JS, GraphQL, AWS, and experimentation frameworks

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Stock options
• 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
• 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
• Has committed to support Outschool.org’s non-profit programs