Outschool’s mission is to inspire kids to love learning. 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.

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. Outschool is looking for full-stack Software Engineers to develop and improve our suite of products to help parents, learners, and educators to engage in love of learning, all through an agentic-first development paradigm.

There is a wide variety of exciting and high-impact engineering challenges for the right candidate from smart UI to personalization to AI assistance to data optimization to tooling to platforms. We’re hiring across levels - from early-career SWEs through senior architects - and will scope the role based on your experience, strengths, and the problems that inspire you and where you can have the biggest impacts. Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering leadership to align on roadmap priorities, technical tradeoffs, risks, and execution strategy Demonstrate AI-native development mindset leveraging fully agentic development workflows, while also contributing to establishing principles and best practices on AI development For senior roles, mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams through strong collaboration, communication, and domain expertise Participate in standups, sprint planning, retros, production deployments, and on-call rotations Professional software engineering experience; Proficiency in some of: TypeScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL,



and PostgreSQL Proven track record of both demonstrated proficiency in AI-native development, and leading teams into it For senior roles, demonstrated 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 Experience in EdTech or building products for learners, educators, or families Familiarity with search, discovery, personalization, AI, tooling, data insights, and/or payment systems Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living.

In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for equity and perks. For Canadian-based candidates, compensation range for this role is $90,000 - $229,500 CAD annually.

Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and retirement plans Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance Generous PTO and family leave policies Hybrid & Remote-Friendly: S. and Canada and an office in San Francisco. Bay Area-based employees work in the office part of the week and receive commute-related benefits. Team members outside the Bay Area remain fully remote, with support for expensable home office setup and internet to stay connected no matter where you are. budgets for children to take Outschool classes Community Impact: We view diversity as a moral imperative and competitive advantage.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Benefits packages are included for full-time employees only. Full-time employees must be a citizen or legal residents of the U.Once you submit your application, Outschool will process your personal data to evaluate your candidacy for employment. If you are selected for interviewing, your data will be shared with interviewers and personnel involved in that process.

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