Outschool (YC W16) | San Francisco, CA and remote| Full-time | Senior full-stack and devops engineers
https://jobs.lever.co/outschool/
Since 2015, we've been growing a community marketplace for live classes that inspire kids to love learning. Now we're scaling it quickly to support distance learning for kids affected by school closures. We're making $1M of live online classes available for free to families in need and adding thousands of new teachers in weeks.
https://www.inc.com/kevin-j-ryan/outschool-coronavirus-homes...
We need senior full stack engineers to build major features and products end-to-end. We also need a senior devops generalist with strong programming skills and a preference for simpler solutions. We have a pragmatic culture that promotes focused collaboration and iterative development.
JavaScript webapp: TypeScript, React, Node/Express, Apollo GraphQL, PostgreSQL.
Data pipelines: AWS CDK, Cloud Formation, Batch, S3.
We inspire kids to love learning with live online classes, offered by independent teachers, conducted over Zoom video chat. We're scaling rapidly to support parents and teachers affected by school closures. Join us to build high-impact product features end-to-end, and to keep kids learning.
We're pragmatic engineers, with a focused collaborative culture that encourages pairing (over Tuple these days) and iteration. We use JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Apollo GraphQL, Node/Express, PostgreSQL for the website, and Python on AWS for data pipelines.
REMOTE candidates are welcome. We prefer remote candidates who have successfully worked remotely for 2+ years. All interviews are remote over Zoom, and we expect new hires to start out working remotely for the foreseeable future.
We inspire kids to love learning. Remote teaching is the future of education: small groups of kids and a teacher meet over Zoom to learn anything from forensic science to trigonometry to building cities in Minecraft and storytelling.
We're 25 people (8 engineers) working to scale our marketplace and remote teaching platform. Pragmatic, product-focused engineers wanted! You'll build large features for kids, parents, and teachers end-to-end using modern tools. Modern JS on the web (TypeScript, React, Apollo GraphQL, Node/Express, Postgres) and Python for data pipelines (AWS CDK + Batch pipelines to S3).
Inspire kids to love learning! We're looking for experienced product-minded web generalists (full stack JS, React / Apollo GraphQL / Node / Postgres). Additional experience with data engineering, UI/UX, security, growth or interactive video is especially welcome.
Outschool | Lead Product Designer, Senior SW Engineer | SF | Full time Onsite
We empower parents and teachers to help kids learn! Outschool (YC W16) is a marketplace of small-group classes for kids, taught by independent teachers over video chat.
We've proved that the classes work and parents love them; now it's time to scale our product and make it beautiful. Join us to delight millions of learners!
Outschool | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Senior engineer, UX designer
Imagine a school offering every possible class, each one taught by the teacher who loves that subject most and filled with kids who chose to be there. Imagine that this school is steps away from your front door.
Join us to bring it to everyone.
Outschool (YC W16) is the marketplace of live online classes for kids. Our classes take place over video chat, bringing independent teachers together with small groups of curious kids around the world.
Thousands of classes are in progress now, generating millions of dollars in sales. We recently raised funding to expand our team from 11 people to 24 this year. Now we're looking for experienced engineers in SF who can shape Outschool with us as it grows.
You would build major product features and help us scale. Upcoming projects include classroom learning tools, communication, personalization, growth, marketplace experience, data infrastructure, and more. We work in modern JavaScript: React, GraphQL/Apollo, and Node/Express backed by PostgreSQL.
Outschool | Senior software engineers | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE
We are an open marketplace of video chat classes for learners, K-12. We connect independent teachers with curious kids to cultivate amazing learning experiences.
We just closed a round of funding to grow our team from 8 to 25 in the next year. We're looking for engineers with an eye for product, familiarity with modern web development, and at least 5 years of professional programming experience, including some time at small startups.
Our stack is primarily JavaScript: React, Node/Express, GraphQL (Apollo).
Outschool: Principal software engineer onsite in San Francisco.
We're a marketplace of awesome video-chat classes for curious kids worldwide. https://outschool.com
We're looking for an experienced, product-oriented generalist to design and implement key features for students, teachers, and parents. Our stack is mostly modern JavaScript: React, GraphQL, Node, Postgres. More details here:
https://outschool.workable.com/jobs/668815
We have a proven business that delights kids, parents, and teachers, and we just reached an inflection point. Email me: mikhail (at our domain dot com) to learn more.
We're a marketplace of small-group classes for kids and teens, taught online over video chat. We have a real business that we're now starting to scale, late seed stage. You would join us as engineer #3 to build experiences for teachers, students, and parents.
Our stack is modern JavaScript: React, GraphQL (Apollo), Node/Express, Postgres. We require at least 5 years of professional programming experience, ideally shipping consumer-facing product features in a startup environment.
Outschool (https://outschool.com) | Principal software engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE
Outschool (YC W16) is the marketplace of small-group online classes for kids, K-12. Our live video chat format makes awesome learning experiences available to kids around the world. They love it!
Already, hundreds of independent teachers are offering thousands of classes in every subject: forensic science, competitive math, storytelling, art, and many more. We’re growing 8x year-over-year, and just raised more funds to expand the team. We want to be every kid’s second school.
We are a product-focused team of 6 in SF, with experience in education, marketplaces, software, and operating online services at Udemy, Amazon, Airbnb, YC, Square, Google, and several startups. We have an exceptionally sane work culture for our early stage: no egos, boondoggles or fake urgency. We pay attention to our users and prioritize carefully, start simple, run experiments, then iterate.
We're now looking for a senior software engineer. It’s an amazing time to join! You would build a new kind of educational service from an early stage, learn and grow with us, and significantly contribute to our success. Everything about our product will evolve, so you'll work on a variety of large-scope projects: in-class interactions, teacher tools, messaging, marketplace discovery, metrics, internal process, infrastructure, and more. You’ll contribute to every product area at every layer of the stack. We use modern ES6+ JavaScript, React, GraphQL, Node, and Postgres.
We think that the best candidates:
* care about learning and education
* have been programming professionally and challenging themselves for at least 5 years
* prefer to focus on user experience over infrastructure complexity
* need a mature perspective on engineering tradeoffs, product decisions, and teamwork
* can be effective with minimal process at first, and adopt more structure as the team grows
* communicate clearly
* have something to teach us
If you’re interested and available, please reach out to [email protected]
Outschool | Principal Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE
Outschool (YC W16) is the marketplace of small-group online classes for kids, K-12. Our live video chat format makes awesome learning experiences available to kids around the world. Already, hundreds of independent teachers are offering thousands of classes in every subject: forensic science, competitive math, storytelling, anthropology, study skills, art, and many more. Learners and their parents love it, and sales are great.
We are an accomplished team of five in SF, with experience in education, marketplaces, software, and operating online services at Udemy, Amazon, Airbnb, YC, Square, Google, and many startups. We're ambitious and pragmatic. We prioritize carefully, run experiments, start simple, then iterate. This gives us confidence that we’re learning about our customers and building what they want. It also means we have less risk, randomness, and drama than most early startups.
We're now looking for a senior software engineer to complement our team. You would get involved early in building a new kind of educational system, and contribute a lot to our success. Everything about our product will evolve, so you'll work on a variety of projects: in-class interactions, teacher success, communication tools, marketplace discovery, metrics, internal process, infrastructure, and more. Our stack is modern JavaScript: React, Apollo/GraphQL, Node/Express, and Postgres.
We think the best candidates care about learning and education. You’ll need a mature perspective on engineering tradeoffs, product decisions, and teamwork. You must have been programming professionally and challenging yourself for at least 5 years. You have something to teach us.
Outschool is the marketplace of small-group online classes for K-12 learners. Our live video chat format transforms the diversity and quality of learning experiences available to kids around the world. Already, hundreds of independent teachers are offering thousands of classes in every subject: forensic science, competitive math, storytelling, anthropology, study skills, art, and many more. Parents love the selection: thousands of them are spending hundreds of dollars per month, and our sales are up 8x over the last year.
We are an accomplished team of four in SF, with experience in education, marketplaces, software, and operating online services at Udemy, Amazon, Airbnb, YC, Square, Google, and many startups. We are ambitious in the long term and pragmatic in the short term. We prioritize carefully, run experiments, start simple, then iterate. This gives us confidence at every step that we’re learning about our customers and building what they want. It also means we have less risk, randomness, and drama than most early startups.
We're now looking for a senior software engineer to complement our team. This is the perfect opportunity for the right person to get involved early, contribute a lot to our success, and create awesome learning experiences for kids. Everything about our product will evolve, so you'll work on a variety of projects: in-class interactions, teacher success, communication tools, marketplace discovery, metrics, internal process, infrastructure, and more. Our stack is modern JavaScript: React, Apollo/GraphQL, Node/Express, and Postgres.
We think the best candidates care about learning and education. You’ll need a mature perspective on engineering tradeoffs, product decisions, and teamwork. You must have been programming professionally and challenging yourself for at least 5 years. You have something to teach us.
Products and platforms overlap quite a bit, e.g. many enterprise products can be thought of as platforms, or AdSense and Android. That's why I think it's less useful to contrast the two companies on a product vs. platform axis, and why I find the cultural differences more interesting.
Google does make great products, especially when it's a matter of presenting a simple elegant interface to a complex internal system. I'm a big fan of Google Search and Maps UX, and Google Now.
But the UX of a product isn't just its immediate interface, it's also all the interactions you have with support, documentation, and change over time, and trust. The cultural differences are more evident there, though some teams at Google are getting pretty good at these things as well.
Having worked at both places for ~4 years each, I would say Amazon is much more of a product company, and a platform is really a collection of compelling products.
Amazon really puts customers first. Their platform and organization are made up of small teams that own services with well-defined interfaces, accountable for customer metrics. All profits are reinvested, so resources and perks are scarce, efficiency matters, and management is tight. The platform emerged because internal teams thought of their infrastructure services as products with customers.
Google really puts ideas (or technology) first; it aims to hire the smartest people and rewards them for launching new things and solving complex problems rather than optimizing UX or making customers happy. Resources are ample and management is loose, so individual contributors can try new things with greater leisure. It's been compared to grad school. But simplifying customer experience is less of a priority, so the internal infrastructure was notoriously complex and hard to use. They're now learning to prioritize customers, but it's hard to change culture.
Of course, both companies are huge and diverse and evolving, so you'll find plenty of variance.
App Engine wasn't evidence of Google being a product company, nor does it exemplify the company's strategy. It was a grassroots project that for years didn't receive much leadership support, but was still allowed to launch and grow.
Since 2015, we've been growing a community marketplace for live classes that inspire kids to love learning. Now we're scaling it quickly to support distance learning for kids affected by school closures. We're making $1M of live online classes available for free to families in need and adding thousands of new teachers in weeks. https://www.inc.com/kevin-j-ryan/outschool-coronavirus-homes...
We need senior full stack engineers to build major features and products end-to-end. We also need a senior devops generalist with strong programming skills and a preference for simpler solutions. We have a pragmatic culture that promotes focused collaboration and iterative development.
JavaScript webapp: TypeScript, React, Node/Express, Apollo GraphQL, PostgreSQL. Data pipelines: AWS CDK, Cloud Formation, Batch, S3.