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THE COMPANY

Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We achieve this by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with other classmates who share their passions, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own paths. Our small group classes meet over live video chat with teachers who celebrate their unique strengths and empower all learners to develop confidence and a strong sense of self.

We're also focused on removing barriers for historically underserved learners who face systemic challenges to their success. In 2020, we started Outschool.org and began offering financial assistance to families in need. We are currently creating an Educator Endowment Fund to appreciate the teachers who are so central to our mission of inspiring kids to love learning.

We believe that diversity drives learning. To meet our mission, we encourage, support, and celebrate different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds. As a fully distributed (remote) team, we challenge one another to find the most effective way to empower learners, teachers, and parents. Your name, race, religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and age are not barriers; they are why we want to work with you. We invite talented and creative candidates who value the importance of nurturing a child's boundless curiosity to join us on this journey.

The pandemic has been challenging for families all over the globe. We acted quickly and worked together to provide quality resources to learners, parents, and teachers in the past year. As communities worldwide rethink their approach to education, Outschool will continue to innovate and provide kids with unique opportunities to explore their passions.

Earlier this year, Techcrunch recognized Outschool as the newest EdTech unicorn. We've also been named Fast Company’s most innovative EdTech company in the world, and one of the top ten best startups for women from Elpha.

THE ROLE

We are an effective team of fully remote engineers distributed across the US and Canada. Our philosophy is to start small and then intentionally iterate to test our assumptions and learn quickly (we call this Remixing Our Work, one of our cultural values). 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 on AWS with ElasticSearch, Kafka, CDK, and Terraform. For languages, we work primarily in modern JavaScript (TypeScript), React, GraphQL/Apollo, and Node/Express backed by PostgreSQL. We also use Python and other frameworks/languages where appropriate. We believe that the future of education is hybrid - online and in person. We are looking for an experienced Security Engineer who is excited about inspiring children to learn by building tools that allow children safe access to a fundamentally different learning experience. This is a hands-on role that utilizes DevOps and scripting skill to improve security system-wide. The ideal candidate will be experienced with AWS and have programming skills in Python and/or JavaScript.

Read more about our engineering team on our blog. You can learn about our hiring process, career progression, engineering challenges, and more!

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implementation for security projects related to security certifications, including SOC 2
• Implementation of tooling and security controls in AWS to mitigate risks
• Internal audits of control effectiveness
• Work with Trust & Safety and other teams on security initiatives
• Review of internal and 3rd party tools to ensure that security objectives are met

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• 5+ years of hands on experience with AWS including specific experience with AWS security services (e.g. CloudWatch, IAM, Inspector, Security Hub, WAF, etc.)
• 3+ years of hands-on experience as a Security Engineer
• Prior work experience as an application software engineer
• Hands on experience with obtaining security certifications including SOC 2, PCI SAQ A and ISO 27001

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• Background in working with software for children or healthcare

OUTSCHOOL CARES:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and investment plans that make saving for retirement easier.
• Health & Wellness: 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 through our partner, ModernHealth.
• PTO & Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
• Fully Distributed: With a team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable weekly meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
• Lifelong Learners: 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!
• Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established charities and has committed to donating $3M to Outschool.org non-profit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. 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. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience. Outschool is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to neurodiverse individuals, applicants with physical and mental disabilities, and disabled veterans. For individuals who would like to request an accommodation, you may reach out to us at recruiting@outschool.com or through your Recruiting point of contact as you schedule your initial interview. Benefits packages are included for full-time employees only. Full-time employees must be a citizen or legal residents of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada.

Job Benefits:

• remote-first
• medical, dental, vision insurance
• take-what-you-need time off
• home office setup, home internet allowance
• DEI education budget
• professional development budget
• short term and long term disability insurance
• charitable donation matching
• free ModernHealth coaching and therapy sessions

THE COMPANY

Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We achieve this by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with other classmates who share their passions, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own paths. Our small group classes meet over live video chat with teachers who celebrate their unique strengths and empower all learners to develop confidence and a strong sense of self.

We're also focused on removing barriers for historically underserved learners who face systemic challenges to their success. In 2020, we started Outschool.org and began offering financial assistance to families in need. We are currently creating an Educator Endowment Fund to appreciate the teachers who are so central to our mission of inspiring kids to love learning.

We believe that diversity drives learning. To meet our mission, we encourage, support, and celebrate different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds. As a fully distributed (remote) team, we challenge one another to find the most effective way to empower learners, teachers, and parents. Your name, race, religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and age are not barriers; they are why we want to work with you. We invite talented and creative candidates who value the importance of nurturing a child's boundless curiosity to join us on this journey.

The pandemic has been challenging for families all over the globe. We acted quickly and worked together to provide quality resources to learners, parents, and teachers in the past year. As communities worldwide rethink their approach to education, Outschool will continue to innovate and provide kids with unique opportunities to explore their passions.

Earlier this year, Techcrunch recognized Outschool as the newest EdTech unicorn. We've also been named Fast Company’s most innovative EdTech company in the world, and one of the top ten best startups for women from Elpha.

THE ROLE

We are an effective team of fully remote engineers distributed across the US and Canada. Our philosophy is to start small and then intentionally iterate to test our assumptions and learn quickly (we call this Remixing Our Work, one of our cultural values). We're now looking to build mobile applications for our learners, parents, and teachers, and are excited to bring on an iOS native developer to help determine the future of mobile engineering at Outschool and help deliver our first native apps. Our upcoming projects include building individual mobile applications for our learners, parents, and teachers.

We have a modern API/backend stack: GraphQL/Apollo for API layer, and Node/Express backed by PostgreSQL. We are looking for our first mobile engineer to help us build out our mobile stack.

We believe the future of education is hybrid — online and in person. We are looking for engineers at various experience levels excited about inspiring children to learn by building tools that allow children to access a fundamentally different learning experience.

Read more about our engineering team on our blog. You can learn about our hiring process, career progression, engineering challenges, and more!

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and implement the stack Outschool uses to develop iOS mobile apps based on modern best practices
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design to build engaging features and experiences for learners
• Identify opportunities to use native mobile capabilities to enable new features
• Work cross-functionally across Engineering pods and other departments across the company
• Ensure speed and quality by building modern pipelines for building, testing, deployment, and monitoring of mobile application

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• 8+ years of industry programming experience
• 5+ years modern iOS development experience, recent projects in Swift
• Implement pixel perfect UI/UX with advanced animations
• Experience working with GraphQL APIs and ability to extend them
• Using and introducing latest iOS development best practices
• Proven ability in peer-to-peer collaboration via pairing, documentation, and knowledge sharing
• Track record of ownership of technical projects
• Ability to write clean, readable code that performs at scale

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• Previous experience in startups, especially edtech
• Passion for learning and education
• Have something to teach us

OUTSCHOOL CARES:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and investment plans that make saving for retirement easier.
• Health & Wellness: 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 through our partner, ModernHealth.
• PTO & Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
• Fully Distributed: With a team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable weekly meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
• Lifelong Learners: 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!
• Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established charities and has committed to donating $3M to Outschool.org non-profit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. 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. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

Outschool is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to disabled veterans and applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@outschool.com.

Must be a citizen or legal resident of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada.

Job Benefits:

• remote-first
• medical, dental, vision insurance
• take-what-you-need time off
• home office setup, home internet allowance
• DEI education budget
• professional development budget
• short term and long term disability insurance
• charitable donation matching
• free ModernHealth coaching and therapy sessions

THE COMPANY

Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We achieve this by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with other classmates who share their passions, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own paths. Our small group classes meet over live video chat with teachers who celebrate their unique strengths and empower all learners to develop confidence and a strong sense of self.

We're also focused on removing barriers for historically underserved learners who face systemic challenges to their success. In 2020, we started Outschool.org and began offering financial assistance to families in need. We are currently creating an Educator Endowment Fund to appreciate the teachers who are so central to our mission of inspiring kids to love learning.

We believe that diversity drives learning. To meet our mission, we encourage, support, and celebrate different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds. As a fully distributed (remote) team, we challenge one another to find the most effective way to empower learners, teachers, and parents. Your name, race, religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and age are not barriers; they are why we want to work with you. We invite talented and creative candidates who value the importance of nurturing a child's boundless curiosity to join us on this journey.

The pandemic has been challenging for families all over the globe. We acted quickly and worked together to provide quality resources to learners, parents, and teachers in the past year. As communities worldwide rethink their approach to education, Outschool will continue to innovate and provide kids with unique opportunities to explore their passions.

Earlier this year, Techcrunch recognized Outschool as the newest EdTech unicorn. We've also been named Fast Company’s most innovative EdTech company in the world, and one of the top ten best startups for women from Elpha.

THE ROLE

We are an effective team of fully remote engineers distributed across the US and Canada. Our philosophy is to start small and then intentionally iterate to test our assumptions and learn quickly (we call this Remixing Our Work, one of our cultural values). 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're now looking to build mobile applications for our learners, parents, and teachers, and are excited to bring on an Android native developer to help determine the future of Android mobile engineering at Outschool and help deliver our first generation of native apps. We have a modern API/backend stack: GraphQL/Apollo for API layer, and Node/Express backed by PostgreSQL. We are looking for our Android engineer to help us build out our Android mobile stack. We believe the future of education is hybrid — online and in person. We are looking for engineers at various experience levels excited about inspiring children to learn by building tools that allow children to access a fundamentally different learning experience.

Read more about our engineering team on our blog. You can learn about our hiring process, career progression, engineering challenges, and more!

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and implement the stack Outschool uses to develop Android mobile apps based on modern best practices
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design to build engaging features and experiences for learners
• Identify opportunities to use native mobile capabilities to enable new features
• Work cross-functionally across Engineering pods and other departments
• Ensure speed and quality by developing modern pipelines for building, testing, deployment, and monitoring of mobile applications

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• 8+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years modern Android development experience, recent projects in Kotlin
• Implement pixel perfect UI/UX with advanced animations
• Experience working with GraphQL APIs and ability to extend them
• Using and introducing latest Android development best practices
• Proven ability in peer-to-peer collaboration via pairing, documentation, and knowledge sharing
• Track record of ownership of technical projects
• Ability to write clean, readable code that performs at scale

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• Previous experience in startups, especially edtech
• Passion for learning and education
• Have something to teach us

OUTSCHOOL CARES:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and investment plans that make saving for retirement easier.
• Health & Wellness: 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 through our partner, ModernHealth.
• PTO & Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
• Fully Distributed: With a team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable weekly meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
• Lifelong Learners: 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!
• Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established charities and has committed to donating $3M to Outschool.org non-profit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. 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. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

Outschool is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to disabled veterans and applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@outschool.com.

Must be a citizen or legal resident of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada.

Job Benefits:

• remote-first
• medical, dental, vision insurance
• take-what-you-need time off
• home office setup, home internet allowance
• DEI education budget
• professional development budget
• short term and long term disability insurance
• charitable donation matching
• free ModernHealth coaching and therapy sessions

THE COMPANY

Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We achieve this by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with other classmates who share their passions, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own paths. Our small group classes meet over live video chat with teachers who celebrate their unique strengths and empower all learners to develop confidence and a strong sense of self.

We're also focused on removing barriers for historically underserved learners who face systemic challenges to their success. In 2020, we started Outschool.org and began offering financial assistance to families in need. We are currently creating an Educator Endowment Fund to appreciate the teachers who are so central to our mission of inspiring kids to love learning.

We believe that diversity drives learning. To meet our mission, we encourage, support, and celebrate different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds. As a fully distributed (remote) team, we challenge one another to find the most effective way to empower learners, teachers, and parents. Your name, race, religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and age are not barriers; they are why we want to work with you. We invite talented and creative candidates who value the importance of nurturing a child's boundless curiosity to join us on this journey.

The pandemic has been challenging for families all over the globe. We acted quickly and worked together to provide quality resources to learners, parents, and teachers in the past year. As communities worldwide rethink their approach to education, Outschool will continue to innovate and provide kids with unique opportunities to explore their passions.

Earlier this year, Techcrunch recognized Outschool as the newest EdTech unicorn. We've also been named Fast Company’s most innovative EdTech company in the world, and one of the top ten best startups for women from Elpha.

THE ROLE

We are an effective team of fully remote engineers distributed across the US and Canada. Our philosophy is to start small and then intentionally iterate to test our assumptions and learn quickly (we call this Remixing Our Work, one of our cultural values). 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 also use Python and other frameworks/languages where appropriate. We believe that the future of education is hybrid - online and in person. We are looking for engineers with extensive industry experience 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. Here are some examples of projects we have recently tackled: - We migrated our backend from Heroku to AWS, and we are in the process of migrating the application layer. - We built a recommendation engine for classes that best fit learners’ interests, it soon turned out to be one of the most used features of our site. - We are in the process of fully revamping our search using ElasticSearch, Kafka, and home grown data pipelines. - We built a new app area, dedicated just to learners. We added gift cards as a way to pay for classes; there are over 100,000 classes to choose from. Read more about our engineering team on our blog. You can learn about our hiring process, career progression, engineering challenges, and more!

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with a team of engineers, product managers, designers, user researchers and product analysts in building high quality software products for parents, learners, educators and partners.
• Build and maintain software solutions using technologies such as Javascript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL and AWS.
• Work with others in the team to help ensure that project plans and estimates are accurate and that features delivered are on time and meet the requirements.
• Engage with the team in gathering requirements, day-to-day activities such as daily standups, sprint planning, and retros, and deploying features in production.
• Mentor other engineers on the team by sharing your expertise and knowledge.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• 5+ years of industry experience working as an engineer.
• 3+ years of experience working in modern front-end frameworks (e.g. React, Vue, etc) and Node based applications.
• 3+ years of experience writing APIs with Javascript or Python.
• 3+ years of experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Proven ability in peer-to-peer collaboration via pairing, documentation.
• Track record of ownership of technical projects
• Experience mentoring others in what you know.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• Previous experience in startups, especially edtech
• Experience building search systems using ElasticSearch
• Experience with AWS or Heroku
• Passion for learning and education
• Familiar with GraphQL and/or the challenges of scaling a web app

OUTSCHOOL CARES:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and investment plans that make saving for retirement easier.
• Health & Wellness: 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 through our partner, ModernHealth.
• PTO & Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
• Fully Distributed: With a team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable weekly meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
• Lifelong Learners: 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!
• Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established charities and has committed to donating $3M to Outschool.org non-profit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. 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. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

Outschool is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to disabled veterans and applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@outschool.com.

Must be a citizen or legal resident of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada.

Job Benefits:

• remote-first
• medical, dental, vision insurance
• take-what-you-need time off
• home office setup, home internet allowance
• DEI education budget
• professional development budget
• short term and long term disability insurance
• charitable donation matching
• free ModernHealth coaching and therapy sessions

THE COMPANY

Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We achieve this by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with other classmates who share their passions, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own paths. Our small group classes meet over live video chat with teachers who celebrate their unique strengths and empower all learners to develop confidence and a strong sense of self.

We're also focused on removing barriers for historically underserved learners who face systemic challenges to their success. In 2020, we started Outschool.org and began offering financial assistance to families in need. We are currently creating an Educator Endowment Fund to appreciate the teachers who are so central to our mission of inspiring kids to love learning.

We believe that diversity drives learning. To meet our mission, we encourage, support, and celebrate different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds. As a fully distributed (remote) team, we challenge one another to find the most effective way to empower learners, teachers, and parents. Your name, race, religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and age are not barriers; they are why we want to work with you. We invite talented and creative candidates who value the importance of nurturing a child's boundless curiosity to join us on this journey.

The pandemic has been challenging for families all over the globe. We acted quickly and worked together to provide quality resources to learners, parents, and teachers in the past year. As communities worldwide rethink their approach to education, Outschool will continue to innovate and provide kids with unique opportunities to explore their passions.

Earlier this year, Techcrunch recognized Outschool as the newest EdTech unicorn. We've also been named Fast Company’s most innovative EdTech company in the world, and one of the top ten best startups for women from Elpha.

THE ROLE

Outschool has a marketplace of virtual classes from teachers for kids who love to learn -- about anything! Parents and kids are amazed by the variety of classes, from designing paper airplanes to rehearsing Shakespeare to coding in Minecraft. But they’re a little overwhelmed, too.

That’s where you come in! We’re looking for engineers who can sift through hundreds of thousands of classes to find the class and teacher that a learner will love. You will own building the end-to-end ML system, from feature ETL to deploying learning-to-rank models in Elasticsearch. These systems will power parent search, learner search, the recommendation emails that reach tens of thousands of parents a week, and dozens more widgets throughout the Outschool website. You’ll learn how to handle Outschool’s unique challenges of a constantly changing marketplace - matching schedules of kids, teachers, and classes - and do it all in a rapidly scaling engineering team and business. So follow the Gradient down to the Apply button below and let your knowledge of ML Flow, because we have a Deep Belief that you’ll love working with us!

ENGINEERING CULTURE

We are an effective team of fully remote engineers distributed across the US and Canada. Our philosophy is to start small and then intentionally iterate to test our assumptions and learn quickly (we call this Remixing Our Work, one of our cultural values). 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. Elasticsearch powers our consumer search, fed with data from Kafka. Our ML stack is still evolving -- and we’d love your help!

We believe the future of education is hybrid — online and in person. We are looking for engineers at various experience levels excited about inspiring children to learn by building tools that allow children to access a fundamentally different learning experience.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

In their first month, this person will:

• Analyze and understand current gaps and opportunities in our search and recommendations systems
• Learn Outschool’s systems for moving and storing data, from logging to the database
• Propose improvements to query understanding, ranking, and filtering capabilities
• Deploy small improvements in the search and recommendations experience

Within three months, we expect this person to:

• Learn the unique challenges of Outschool, such as class scheduling, teacher-student matching, and the needs of different types of users
• Scope and begin work on an end-to-end machine learning system
• Make significant improvements to our recommendations or search algorithms that result in measurable improvements to the user experience
• Provide critical contributions to medium sized projects with other engineers and the product team

Within one year:

• Onboard new data and ML engineers; mentor new hires and interns
• Expand the use of an end-to-end ML system to new parts of Outschool, so that other teams are independently using the system to successfully deploy models and algorithm improvements
• Deploy several iterations of models across several domains that have impacted business level metrics, such as enrollment and retention
• Incorporate best practices and platforms into Outschool’s tech stack
• Share lessons and insights with the company through demos and retrospectives
• Keep well-informed of industry and academic trends in machine learning and search

You will work within a cross-functional team that is empowered with end-to-end responsibility and ability to deliver customer value quickly. Teams have dedicated Product Managers and Designers, and work with embedded Data Scientists and User Researchers. Working collaboratively to deliver an amazing experience to customers that works for the business is what we’re all about. If you have several years of hands-on experience in these areas, please apply -- we’d love to talk with you!

OUTSCHOOL CARES:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and investment plans that make saving for retirement easier.
• Health & Wellness: 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 through our partner, ModernHealth.
• PTO & Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
• Fully Distributed: With a team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable weekly meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
• Lifelong Learners: 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!
• Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established charities and has committed to donating $3M to Outschool.org non-profit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. 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. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

Outschool is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to disabled veterans and applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@outschool.com.

Must be a citizen or legal resident of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada.

Job Benefits:

• remote-first
• medical, dental, vision insurance
• take-what-you-need time off
• home office setup, home internet allowance
• DEI education budget
• professional development budget
• short term and long term disability insurance
• charitable donation matching
• Outschool reimbursable classes
• free ModernHealth coaching and therapy sessions

THE COMPANY

Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We believe the best way to do that is by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with others who share those interests, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own path. We provide small group classes that meet over live video chat where learners are connected with teachers and classmates who share their interests. These classes are offered through our marketplace and conducted on our remote learning platform. Our business is growing explosively: 900,000+ learners have taken more than over 7M class hours. We've more than quadrupled our team since the beginning of 2020 from 25 to 118 to keep up with growth. We’ve raised $130M since founding with most of that still in the bank. We’ve also been named Fast Company’s most innovative edtech company in the world and in the top ten best startups for women from Elpha. We're committed to access and impact so we founded outschool.org to offer financial assistance to families in need. In addition, Outschool has created an Educator Endowment Fund in appreciation for these teachers who are so central to our mission of inspiring kids to love learning. Our product and expertise have become central to many families, educators and organizations and will continue to provide kids with unique opportunities to explore their interests in 2021 and beyond.

THE ROLE

We are a small but effective team, working with a DevOps mindset, and getting a lot done by staying focused on the work that matters. We're iteratively building up a complex product for a highly engaged audience. While Outschool’s product engineers are building features for end-users, your focus will be to help our team and systems scale effectively. Upcoming initiatives include: observability and monitoring, build/deploy pipeline optimization, shifting workloads into separate services, and deploying some of them to AWS. Our website is written in modern JavaScript: TypeScript, React, GraphQL/Apollo, and Node/Express backed by PostgreSQL, deployed to Heroku. Our Python data pipelines run on AWS (CDK, CloudFormation, Batch) and we use Github for development.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with others in an engineering team that encourages pairing, iteration, and impact
• Develop tools and technologies to enable Outschool’s product teams to work more quickly and efficiently
• Ensure website performance, security, and stability
• Migrate systems to AWS from other platforms implement and improve system monitoring tools

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• 5 years of experience working professionally in DevOps, Infrastructure, or Systems Engineering
• 3 years of experience developing web applications
• Professional experience with AWS, tuning and maintaining PostgreSQL, monitoring and observability, and building/deploying systems (Node, React, webpack, GitHub Actions)
• Writes clean code in JavaScript / TypeScript and Python

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• Practical experience with AWS migrations
• Experience building data pipelines

OUTSCHOOL CARES:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and a 401k that makes saving for retirement easier.
• Health & Wellness: 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 through our partner, ModernHealth.
• PTO & Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
• Fully Distributed: With a team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable weekly meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
• Lifelong Learners: 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!
• Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established 501c3s, and has committed to donating $3M to Outschool.org non-profit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. 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. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

Outschool is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to disabled veterans and applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@outschool.com.

Must be a citizen or legal resident of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada.

Job Benefits:

• remote-first
• medical, dental, vision insurance
• take-what-you-need time off
• home office setup, home internet allowance
• DEI education budget
• professional development budget
• short term and long term disability insurance
• charitable donation matching
• Outschool reimbursable classes
• free ModernHealth coaching and therapy sessions

THE COMPANY

Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We believe the best way to do that is by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with others who share those interests, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own path. We provide small group classes that meet over live video chat where learners are connected with teachers and classmates who share their interests. These classes are offered through our marketplace and conducted on our remote learning platform.

Our business is growing explosively: 900,000+ learners have taken more than over 7M class hours. We've more than quadrupled our team since the beginning of 2020 from 25 to 118 to keep up with growth. We’ve raised $130M since founding with most of that still in the bank. We’ve also been named Fast Company’s most innovative edtech company in the world and in the top ten best startups for women from Elpha.

We're committed to access and impact so we founded outschool.org to offer financial assistance to families in need. In addition, Outschool has created an Educator Endowment Fund in appreciation for these teachers who are so central to our mission of inspiring kids to love learning.

Our product and expertise have become central to many families, educators and organizations and will continue to provide kids with unique opportunities to explore their interests in 2021 and beyond.

THE ROLE

We are an effective team of fully remote engineers distributed across the US and Canada. Our philosophy is to start small and then intentionally iterate so we can test our assumptions and learn quickly (we call this Remixing Our Work, one of our cultural values). 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 also use Python and other frameworks/languages where appropriate.

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. If you have over 2 years of experience we encourage you to apply. We value hands-on experience most of all.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Here are some examples of projects we have recently tackled:

• We added gift cards as a way to pay for classes; there are over 100,000 classes to choose from;
• We migrated our backend from Heroku to AWS, and we are in the process of migrating the application layer;
• We built a recommendation engine for classes that best fit learners’ interests, it soon turned out to be one of the most used features of our site;
• We are in the process of fully revamping our search using ElasticSearch, Kafka and home grown data pipelines;
• We built a new app area, dedicated just to learners.

If this sounds interesting or like fun, feel free to apply!

DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Industry experience working as an engineer.
• Experience in modern front-end frameworks (e.g. React, Vue, etc) and Node based applications.
• Experience writing APIs with Javascript or Python.
• Familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and/or distributed storage like ElasticSearch.
• Proven ability in peer-to-peer collaboration via pairing, documentation.
• Willingness to mentor others in what you know.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• Previous experience in startups, especially edtech
• Experience with AWS or Heroku
• Passion for learning and education
• Familiar with GraphQL and/or the challenges of scaling a web app

OUTSCHOOL CARES:

At Outschool, we believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and a 401k that makes saving for retirement easier.
• Health & Wellness: 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 through our partner, ModernHealth.
• PTO & Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
• Fully Distributed: With a team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable weekly meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
• Lifelong Learners: 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!
• Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established 501c3s, and has committed to donating $3M to Outschool.org non-profit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and a 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. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

Outschool is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to disabled veterans and applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@outschool.com.

Must be a citizen or legal resident of the U.S. or Canada and reside in the U.S. or Canada.

Job Benefits:

• remote-first
• medical, dental, vision insurance
• take-what-you-need time off
• home office setup, home internet allowance
• DEI education budget
• professional development budget
• short term and long term disability insurance
• charitable donation matching
• Outschool reimbursable classes
• free ModernHealth coaching and therapy sessions

THE COMPANY

Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We believe the best way to do that is by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with others who share those interests, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own path. We provide small group classes that meet over live video chat where learners are connected with teachers and classmates who share their interests. These classes are offered through our marketplace and conducted on our remote learning platform.

Our business is growing explosively: 900,000+ learners have taken more than over 7M class hours. We've more than quadrupled our team since the beginning of 2020 from 25 to 118 to keep up with growth. We’ve raised $130M since founding with most of that still in the bank. We’ve also been named Fast Company’s most innovative edtech company in the world and in the top ten best startups for women from Elpha.

We're committed to access and impact so we founded outschool.org to offer financial assistance to families in need. In addition, Outschool has created an Educator Endowment Fund in appreciation for these teachers who are so central to our mission of inspiring kids to love learning.

Our product and expertise have become central to many families, educators and organizations and will continue to provide kids with unique opportunities to explore their interests in 2021 and beyond.

THE ROLE

We are an effective team of engineers, getting a lot done by staying focused on the work that matters. We're iteratively building up a complex product for a highly engaged audience. We're now looking to build mobile applications for our learners, parents, and teachers, and are excited to bring on the first iOS native developer to help determine the future of mobile engineering at Outschool and deliver our first native apps. Our upcoming projects include building individual mobile applications for our learners, parents, and teachers.

We have a modern API/backend stack: GraphQL/Apollo for API layer, and Node/Express backed by PostgreSQL. We are looking for our first mobile engineer to help us build out our mobile stack.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and implement the stack Outschool uses to develop mobile apps based on modern best practices
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design to build engaging features and experiences for learners
• Identify opportunities to use native mobile capabilities to enable new features
• Work cross-functionally across Engineering pods and other departments across the company
• Ensure speed and quality by building modern pipelines for building, testing, deployment, and monitoring of mobile applications

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• 8+ years of industry programming experience
• 5+ years modern iOS development experience, recent projects in Swift
• Implement pixel perfect UI/UX with advanced animations
• Experience working with GraphQL APIs and ability to extend them
• Using and introducing latest iOS development best practices
• Proven ability in peer-to-peer collaboration via pairing, documentation, and knowledge sharing
• Track record of ownership of technical projects
• Ability to write clean, readable code that performs at scale

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• Previous experience in startups, especially edtech
• Passion for learning and education
• Have something to teach us

OUTSCHOOL CARES:

At Outschool, we believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and a 401k that makes saving for retirement easier.
• Health & Wellness: 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 through our partner, ModernHealth.
• PTO & Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
• Fully Distributed: With a team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable weekly meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
• Lifelong Learners: 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!
• Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established 501c3s, and has committed to donating $3M to Outschool.org non-profit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and a 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. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

Outschool is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to disabled veterans and applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@outschool.com.

Must be a citizen or legal resident of the U.S. or Canada and reside in the U.S. or Canada.

Job Benefits:

• remote-first
• medical, dental, vision insurance
• take-what-you-need time off
• home office setup, home internet allowance
• DEI education budget
• professional development budget
• short term and long term disability insurance
• charitable donation matching
• Outschool reimbursable classes
• free ModernHealth coaching and therapy sessions

THE COMPANY

Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We believe the best way to do that is by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with others who share those interests, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own path. We provide small group classes that meet over live video chat where learners are connected with teachers and classmates who share their interests. These classes are offered through our marketplace and conducted on our remote learning platform.

We're an experienced team with past accomplishments at Airbnb, Square, Apple, Uber, Udemy, Amazon, Google, and many startups. We came together because we wanted to make a difference in education and saw the opportunity to empower learners, teachers, and parents.

Our business is growing explosively and as of August, 500,000 learners have taken more than over 2M class hours. We've already more than doubled our team since the beginning of 2020 from 25 to 70 to keep up with growth. We’ve raised $57M since founding with most of that still in the bank. Our sales have grown 2000% in the past year to reach a run-rate of more than $100M.

Now, in the face of mass school closures, our product and expertise has become central to many more families and organizations than ever before. We're committed to access and impact so we founded outschool.org to offer financial assistance to families in need.

THE ROLE

We are an effective team of engineers, getting a lot done by staying focused on the work that matters. We're iteratively building up a complex product for a highly engaged audience. We're now looking to build mobile applications for our learners, parents, and teachers, and are excited to bring on the first iOS native developer to help determine the future of mobile engineering at Outschool and deliver our first native apps. Our upcoming projects include building individual mobile applications for our learners, parents, and teachers.

We have a modern API/backend stack: GraphQL/Apollo for API layer, and Node/Express backed by PostgreSQL. We are looking for our first mobile engineer to help us build out our mobile stack.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and implement the stack Outschool uses to develop mobile apps based on modern best practices
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design to build engaging features and experiences for learners
• Identify opportunities to use native mobile capabilities to enable new features
• Work cross-functionally across Engineering pods and other departments across the company
• Ensure speed and quality by building modern pipelines for building, testing, deployment, and monitoring of mobile applications

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• 8+ years of industry programming experience
• 5+ years modern iOS development experience, recent projects in Swift
• Implement pixel perfect UI/UX with advanced animations
• Experience working with GraphQL APIs and ability to extend them
• Using and introducing latest iOS development best practices
• Proven ability in peer-to-peer collaboration via pairing, documentation, and knowledge sharing
• Track record of ownership of technical projects
• Ability to write clean, readable code that performs at scale

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• Previous experience in startups, especially edtech
• Passion for learning and education
• Have something to teach us

OUTSCHOOL CARES:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and a 401k that makes saving for retirement easier.
• Health and Wellness: 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 through our partner, ModernHealth.
• PTO and Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
• Remote First: With over 50% of our team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable weekly meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
• Lifelong Learners: 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!
• Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established 501c3s, and has committed to donating $3M to Outschool.org non-profit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and a 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. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

Must be a citizen or legal resident of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada.

Job Benefits:

• remote-first
• medical, dental, vision insurance
• take-what-you-need time off
• home office setup, home internet allowance
• DEI education budget
• professional development budget
• short term and long term disability insurance
• charitable donation matching
• Outschool reimbursable classes
• free ModernHealth coaching and therapy sessions

THE COMPANY

Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We believe the best way to do that is by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with others who share those interests, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own path. We provide small group classes that meet over live video chat where learners are connected with teachers and classmates who share their interests. These classes are offered through our marketplace and conducted on our remote learning platform.

Our business is growing explosively and as of August, 500,000 learners have taken more than over 2M class hours. We've more than tripled our team since the beginning of 2020 from 25 to 80 to keep up with growth. We’ve raised $57M since founding with most of that still in the bank. Our sales have grown 2000% in the past year to reach a run-rate of more than $100M.

We're an experienced team with past accomplishments at Airbnb, Square, Apple, Uber, Udemy, Amazon, Wikipedia, Google, and many startups. We came together because we wanted to make a difference in education and saw the opportunity to empower learners, teachers, and parents.

Now, in the face of mass school closures, our product and expertise have become central to many more families, teachers and organizations than ever before. We're committed to access and impact so we founded outschool.org to offer financial assistance to families in need.

THE ROLE

We’re looking for an inspiring, impact-seeking engineering leader to level up our engineering org and help grow our company as part of the exec team. You’ll use all of your distinctive experience and talent to have an impact at a key inflection point in our company’s history and in the evolution of the education system.  We have a great start and now we need your help to build a great organization, for a greater purpose. If you’re passionate about learning, enabling others, and having a positive impact on education, we’d love to hear from you.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Help drive Outschool’s strategy as a key member of the executive team.
• Lead our engineering org and grow it from thirty to hundreds of engineers in 3 years.
• Build culture and team, enable and develop engineers and managers in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment.
• Partner closely with product, design, marketing, and other functions to create a world-class service that inspires kids to love learning.
• Drive technology and data innovation to enable breakthrough customer features.
• Plan and organize to balance product development, infrastructure investments, and technology innovation.
• Carry forward Outschool’s cultural values and champion diversity, equity and inclusion.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• You are an inspiring leader who is committed to learning, growing, and enabling others.
• You have a track record of building and leading diverse teams.
• You have experience leading engineering teams of 50+ and growing teams 2-3X per year in a fast-changing startup environment.
• You have strong communication and collaboration skills.
• You have a track record of enabling career development and high performance.
• You have had responsibility for strategic planning for a department, including identifying new organizational needs and creating hiring plans or frameworks to meet them.
• You are a respected technical leader and can enable effective technical decision-making.
• You have a track record of partnering with product and other functions to deliver customer value and business impact at scale.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• Experience managing remote teams is a plus.
• Education or marketplace experience is a plus.
• Prior experience as a member of an executive team is a plus.

OUTSCHOOL CARES:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and a 401k that makes saving for retirement easier.
• Health and Wellness: 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 through our partner, ModernHealth.
• PTO and Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
• Remote First: With over 50% of our team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable weekly meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
• Lifelong Learners: 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!
• Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established 501c3s, and has committed to donating $3M to Outschool.org non-profit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and a 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. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience. Outschool is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to disabled veterans and applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@outschool.com. Must be a citizen or legal resident of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada.

Job Benefits:

• remote-first
• medical, dental, vision insurance
• take-what-you-need time off
• home office setup, home internet allowance
• DEI education budget
• professional development budget
• short term and long term disability insurance
• charitable donation matching
• Outschool reimbursable classes
• free ModernHealth coaching and therapy sessions

THE COMPANY
Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We believe the best way to do that is by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with others who share those interests, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own path. We provide small group classes that meet over live video chat where learners are connected with teachers and classmates who share their interests. These classes are offered through our marketplace and conducted on our remote learning platform.

We're an experienced team with past accomplishments at Airbnb, Square, Apple, Uber, Udemy, Amazon, Wikipedia, Google, and many startups. Outschool’s team came together because we wanted to make a difference in education and saw the opportunity to empower learners, teachers, and parents. We value lifelong learners from all perspectives and walks of life, and we hold bringing others in as a core value of our company. We are committed to building a team that can bring a variety of both life and professional experiences to their role.

Now, in the face of mass school closures, our product and expertise have become central to many more families and organizations than ever before. We're committed to access and impact so we founded outschool.org to offer financial assistance to families in need.

THE ROLE
As Outschool has grown, so has our need to take advantage of data to facilitate product execution. We are creating a new Data focus area within our larger Infrastructure team. We are looking for an experienced engineer with a solid understanding of building data pipelines for analytics and machine learning.

In the Infrastructure team, every engineer works full-stack. While this role emphasis is on data, you would likely collaborate in other projects and use TypeScript, SQL, and Python on the same day to do your job. Scala/ Spark might come into the picture soon, so you should feel at ease in scripting and compiled languages. We value highly the ability to communicate asynchronously, teach others, and willingness to write documentation.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Strengthening our data pipelines for analytics, reporting, and metric computation. We are doing performance tuning for our Redshift instance, but we might also be incorporating other solutions that are best suited to exploratory use cases.
• Developing an environment in which we can manipulate data at scale so our data science team can experiment and developers can build machine learning powered features
• Developing in-house analytics pipelines for disparate use cases including growth, safety and privacy, customer support, and experimentation.
• Studying and prototyping applications of event-based architectures to our website stack. You have some familiarity with messaging platforms such as Kafka or AWS Kinesis

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• Strong verbal and written communication as this is a highly collaborative role
• Experience in building high traffic data pipelines for business and data science use cases, on the cloud or on-prem
• Understanding of columnar databases and distributed systems. You might have used one or many of: Redshift, Hadoop, Hive, Cassandra, Presto or Druid. You know your way around analytics data stores and can help others to take advantage of them to solve their problems.
• Experience in analyzing large datasets; finding and solving problems.
• Real-world experience writing website applications in Python, Javascript, Java, Scala, or other languages.
• Familiarity with open-source machine learning libraries such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
• Familiarity with statistics and mathematics; you can help data scientists improve their tools and solutions.

OUTSCHOOL CARES:
At Outschool, we believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means:
Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and a 401k that makes saving for retirement easier.

• Health and Wellness: 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 through our partner, ModernHealth.
• PTO and Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
• Remote First: With over 50% of our team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable weekly meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
• Lifelong Learners: 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!
• Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established 501c3s, and has committed to donating $3M to Outschool.org non-profit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and a 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. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

Outschool is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to disabled veterans and applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@outschool.com.

Must be a citizen or legal resident of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada.

Job Benefits:

• remote-first
• medical, dental, vision insurance
• take-what-you-need time off
• home office setup, home internet allowance
• DEI education budget
• professional development budget
• short term and long term disability insurance
• charitable donation matching
• Outschool reimbursable classes
• free ModernHealth coaching and therapy sessions

THE COMPANY

Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We believe the best way to do that is by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with others who share those interests, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own path. We provide small group classes that meet over live video chat where learners are connected with teachers and classmates who share their interests. These classes are offered through our marketplace and conducted on our remote learning platform.

Our business is growing explosively and as of August, 500,000 learners have taken more than over 2M class hours. We've more than tripled our team since the beginning of 2020 from 25 to 80 to keep up with growth. We’ve raised $57M since founding with most of that still in the bank. Our sales have grown 2000% in the past year to reach a run-rate of more than $100M.

We're an experienced team with past accomplishments at Airbnb, Square, Apple, Uber, Udemy, Amazon, Wikipedia, Google, and many startups. We came together because we wanted to make a difference in education and saw the opportunity to empower learners, teachers, and parents.

Now, in the face of mass school closures, our product and expertise have become central to many more families, teachers and organizations than ever before. We're committed to access and impact so we founded outschool.org to offer financial assistance to families in need.

THE ROLE 

As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing systems across engineering efforts that we undertake. As part of Outschool’s technical leadership, you’ll be involved in overarching strategic topics while focusing on the operative excellence of our software engineers - ensuring technical consistency and clarity across the engineering teams. You’ll amplify your impact wherein the outcomes of your work move the engineering organization forward in a meaningful way.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with key internal stakeholders in the engineering organization and business
• Advocate/enforce best practices for performance, reliability, scalability, security, and reusability at the organization level
• Be a hands-on architect with a good understanding of how the various systems and components connect and interact
• Write code to implement key components, patterns, systems, and prototypes that guide the technical direction of the team
• Assess risks, make trade-offs, and offer a solution over others
• Provide domain expertise and engineering insight to guide designs, accelerate project decision making, and maintain oversight of technical execution
• Bring industry-wide perspective, knowledge of existing resources and tools, and ability to discover new ones as needed in order to make effective build/buy recommendations

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• Has strong interpersonal communication and collaboration skills with an ability to build trust and alignment across both engineering and multi-functional organizations to meet the business goals of Outschool
• Has over 15 years of experience building software applications at scale
• Has a deep expertise in some core aspects of our stack: modern JavaScript/TypeScript: React, GraphQL/Apollo, Python data pipelines, Node/Express backed by PostgreSQL and AWS
• Understands the importance of code quality, how to foster code quality behaviors within a team, and how to effectively manage technical debt
• Has been successful designing, shipping and evolving systems as well as guiding teams through system and software architectural decisions
• Has experience in long term planning and execution of all technical aspects of our technology stack

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• Previous work in Ed Tech companies
• Previous work at high-growth startups

OUTSCHOOL CARES:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and a 401k that makes saving for retirement easier.
• Health and Wellness: 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 through our partner, ModernHealth.
• PTO and Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
• Remote First: With over 50% of our team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable weekly meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
• Lifelong Learners: 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!
• Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established 501c3s, and has committed to donating $3M to Outschool.org non-profit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and a 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. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

Outschool is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to disabled veterans and applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@outschool.com.

Must be a citizen or legal resident of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada.

Job Benefits:

• remote-first
• medical, dental, vision insurance
• take-what-you-need time off
• home office setup, home internet allowance
• DEI education budget
• professional development budget
• short term and long term disability insurance
• charitable donation matching
• Outschool reimbursable classes
• free ModernHealth coaching and therapy sessions

THE COMPANY

Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We believe the best way to do that is by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with others who share those interests, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own path. We provide small group classes that meet over live video chat where learners are connected with teachers and classmates who share their interests. These classes are offered through our marketplace and conducted on our remote learning platform.

We're an experienced team with past accomplishments at Airbnb, Square, Apple, Uber, Udemy, Amazon, Google, and many startups. We came together because we wanted to make a difference in education and saw the opportunity to empower learners, teachers, and parents.

Our business is growing explosively and as of August, 500,000 learners have taken more than over 2M class hours. We've already more than doubled our team since the beginning of 2020 from 25 to 70 to keep up with growth. We’ve raised $57M since founding with most of that still in the bank. Our sales have grown 2000% in the past year to reach a run-rate of more than $100M.

Now, in the face of mass school closures, our product and expertise has become central to many more families and organizations than ever before. We're committed to access and impact so we founded outschool.org to offer financial assistance to families in need.

THE ROLE

We are an effective team of senior engineers, getting a lot done by staying focused on the work that matters. We're iteratively building up a complex product for a highly engaged audience. Upcoming projects include data-driven recommendations, measuring teacher quality and learner engagement, learner profiles, integrated messaging, assignments, learning paths, growth experiments, better search, and more.

We work in modern JavaScript: React, GraphQL/Apollo, and Node/Express backed by PostgreSQL.

HERE ARE SOME REASONS TO JOIN US:

• Collaborative team culture that encourages pairing, iteration, and impact
• Novel vision to transform kids' education through remote teaching with live video chat
• Experienced team from Airbnb, Square, Amazon, Google, Udemy and Clever
• Lots of opportunities to make an impact by building large features end-to-end
• Consumer product with fast iteration cycles means you can have a big impact in a short time
• Proven, fast-growing marketplace business with millions of dollars in annual revenue
• Funded by top education and marketplace investors, Reach Capital and Union Square Ventures

WE LOOK FOR CANDIDATES WHO:

• Have been programming professionally and challenging themselves for at least 2 years
• Communicate clearly
• Balance big-picture perspective with attention to detail
• Take responsibility for their work
• Care about learning and education
• Have something to teach us

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and a 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. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

Must be a citizen or legal resident of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada.

Job Benefits:

• remote-first
• medical, dental, vision insurance
• take-what-you-need time off
• home office setup, home internet allowance
• DEI education budget
• professional development budget
• short term and long term disability insurance
• charitable donation matching
• Outschool reimbursable classes
• free ModernHealth coaching and therapy sessions

THE COMPANY

Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We believe the best way to do that is by linking learning to kids’ interests, connecting them with others who share those interests, and giving them the autonomy to pick their own path. We provide small group classes that meet over live video chat where learners are connected with teachers and classmates who share their interests. These classes are offered through our marketplace and conducted on our remote learning platform. We're an experienced team with past accomplishments at Airbnb, Square, Apple, Uber, Udemy, Amazon, Google, and many startups. We came together because we wanted to make a difference in education and saw the opportunity to empower learners, teachers, and parents. Our business is growing explosively and as of August, 500,000 learners have taken more than over 2M class hours. We've already more than doubled our team since the beginning of 2020 from 25 to 70 to keep up with growth. We’ve raised $57M since founding with most of that still in the bank. Our sales have grown 2000% in the past year to reach a run-rate of more than $100M. Now, in the face of mass school closures, our product and expertise has become central to many more families and organizations than ever before. We're committed to access and impact so we founded outschool.org to offer financial assistance to families in need. 

THE ROLE

We are an effective team of 13 experienced engineers, working with a DevOps mindset and getting a lot done by staying focused on the work that matters. We're iteratively building up a complex product for a highly engaged audience. We're looking for our first infrastructure engineer. While product engineers are building features for end users, your focus will be to help our team and our systems scale effectively. Upcoming initiatives include: observability and monitoring, build / deploy pipeline optimization, shifting workloads into separate services and deploying some of them to AWS. Our website is written in modern JavaScript: TypeScript, React, GraphQL/Apollo, and Node/Express backed by PostgreSQL, deployed to Heroku. Our Python data pipelines run on AWS (CDK, CloudFormation, Batch). We use CircleCi and Github for development.

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US:

• Invest your time in a worthwhile mission: inspiring kids to love learning
• Teammates and managers with extensive DevOps experience who understand and value your work
• Collaborative team culture that encourages pairing, iteration, and impact
• Proven, fast-growing marketplace business with millions of dollars in annual revenue, supported by top investors.

WE LOOK FOR CANDIDATES WHO:

• Have been working professionally in DevOps, Infrastructure, or Systems Engineering for at least 5 years.
• Have relevant experience, e.g.: iterating on data pipelines in AWS, tuning and maintaining PostgreSQL, monitoring and observability, build/deploy systems (node, React, webpack, CIrcleCI)
• Write clean code in JavaScript / TypeScript or Python
• Prefer simple solutions
• Communicate clearly
• Balance big-picture perspective with attention to detail
• Take responsibility for their work
• Care about learning and education
• Have something to teach us

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. 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. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

Must be a citizen or legal resident of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada.

Job Benefits:

• remote-first
• medical, dental, vision insurance
• take-what-you-need time off
• home office setup, home internet allowance
• DEI education budget
• professional development budget
• short term and long term disability insurance
• charitable donation matching
• Outschool reimbursable classes
• free ModernHealth coaching and therapy sessions