Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

The Company:

Outschool’s mission is to inspire kids to love learning. In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners. Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education. By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human.

We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017. Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019. Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community. We're proud to have served over 1.5M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.

Driving disruptive, positive change in education is rewarding and hard. Outschool team members are encouraged to challenge themselves, take risks, and grow in their careers. We look for talented people whose sense of urgency, innate curiosity, and determination to drive impact will help Outschool achieve outsized results in pursuit of our mission. We invite you to be part of an ambitious team dedicated to ensuring every learner can navigate the future with curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack to join our Product Engineering team in South Korea. The team’s mission is to build high-quality product experiences that help learners, families, and educators connect and succeed on Outschool. You'll own challenging problems across the stack, from designing intuitive user experiences in React, to building scalable backend systems and APIs, to evolving our data models and architecture, to improving product quality and performance, to using AI-native tools and approaches to help us build and iterate faster.

We are an effective team of engineers distributed across the US, Canada, and South Korea. Our philosophy is to start small and then intentionally iterate to test our assumptions and learn quickly. We're iteratively building up a complex product for a highly engaged audience.

This role requires working from our Haeundae, Busan office Tuesday–Friday from 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Mondays are remote.

Our Stack:

Product Engineering

TypeScript · React · Node.js · GraphQL/Apollo · PostgreSQL · OpenSearch

Our engineers work across the full stack, from building polished user experiences to designing APIs, data models, and backend services.

Infrastructure & Developer Platform

AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda) · Terraform · GitLab · Prometheus/Grafana · OpenTelemetry

Product engineers partner closely with our Infrastructure team and are empowered to understand, deploy, and operate the systems they build.

AI-Native Development

We use AI throughout the software development lifecycle, including planning, implementation, testing, debugging, and code review.

We're also actively incorporating AI into the Outschool product and exploring new ways AI can improve learning experiences for families, learners, and educators.

Core Responsibilities:

Product development: Build high-quality product experiences for learners, families, educators, and partners across the full stack, from React and TypeScript in the frontend to GraphQL, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and backend services.

Technical ownership: Own projects from problem definition through design, implementation, launch, and iteration. Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance speed, quality, maintainability, and user impact.

Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Researchers, Analysts, and other Engineers to shape requirements, explore solutions, and deliver the right product—not just implement predefined specifications.

Architecture & engineering quality: Design scalable, maintainable systems and APIs. Improve application architecture, testing, performance, observability, and engineering practices as the product and team grow.

AI-native development: Use AI tools throughout the development workflow to move faster and improve quality, and help identify opportunities to incorporate AI into Outschool's product and learning experiences.