Senior Software Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: Remote

Compensation: $181K – $207K

Employment Type: FullTime

About Schoolhouse

Founded by Sal Khan, Schoolhouse is a peer-to-peer learning platform that brings genuine human connection to online learning in a world that’s being rapidly disrupted by AI. So far, we’ve reached 150k+ learners from 180+ countries and we plan to grow to millions.

About the Vision

Our vision is to provide a global safety net so that every student can thrive in an AI era. This means creating an environment where they can develop and showcase academic mastery and durable skills, and we believe we can do this by bringing students together around learning.

At Schoolhouse, learning isn’t just academic – it’s civic, human, and global. Students join tutoring sessions where peers help them reach academic goals through personalized support. They participate in Dialogues to discuss challenging issues and empathize across divides. Above all, students belong to a global community centered around human connection.

We believe this vision is ambitious, so we need a team that can move quickly in the face of ambiguity. We sincerity and empathy and believe in the power of human connection. We step in to help each other out, we think big but start small, we uplift each other, and we’re all learners at heart.

Learn more about our vision and our values here:

• Teen Helps 52-Year-Old Man Earn His High School Diploma

• The Power of Peer Tutoring

• Schoolhouse’s Public Roadmap

• What are Schoolhouse's community values?

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who wants to build something that’ll have an impact. You’ll join our 5-person engineering team and own full-stack features that hundreds of thousands of learners and tutors use worldwide.

Engineers at Schoolhouse have lots of ownership — you’ll work directly with our designer and other stakeholders to build out new experiments and streamline existing operations. We think the best way for engineers to build a quality product is to be involved early, drive progress, and stay close to our end users.

Scaling free quality interactions between students around the world comes with challenges that live at the intersection of UX, people ops, and technology. We need to both meet learner / tutor needs while ensuring that these interactions stay high quality and safe.

Some examples of what we’ve worked on include:

• Building an AI simulation & coach to help tutors practice for their first tutoring session

• Experimenting with new ways to connect tutors to learners wanting immediate homework help

• Creating a moderation system to automatically recognize and act on safety issues so humans can focus their time on the most important issues

Responsibilities:

• Experiment & build features alongside other stakeholders from ideation to implementation

• Write simple, readable code & create abstractions that future engineers can easily maintain & change

About You

If this sounds like you, we’d love for you to apply!

• You’ve been a full-stack software engineer 3+ years and have a track record of creating new user experiences, making technical decisions, and writing maintainable code.

• You have experience with Typescript, Node.js, React, Next.js, and Postgres (or can ramp up quickly).

• You build for users & have a nose for understanding what would help them the most.

• You move quickly while maintaining quality and want to ship regularly. Perfect is the enemy of good.

• You fill in the gaps — you ask for help, but still work independently to figure things out. If necessary you can put on another hat if it’ll help users the most.

• You’re available to work in a US timezone.

Bonus points

• You have deep technical experience with our stack Typescript, Node.js, React, Next.js, Postgres, AWS, and GCP.

• You have experience building mobile apps.

• You have experience working in education or on an ed-tech product.

Life at Schoolhouse

• Work with an amazing team. We’ve got folks with backgrounds in education, consulting, astrophysics, startups, and more.

• Fully remote with flexible working hours. Meetings are in US Pacific Time mornings.

• Take real time off. We have unlimited PTO & use it. Folks regularly take time off throughout the year.

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits. Work-from-home stipend. Professional development budget. Health, dental, vision (for US employees).

• Semesterly retreats and monthly regional meetups

• Make an impact you can see. Check out our community stories page. Watch students help each other learn. See tutors grow into leaders. Your code will help real people learn and grow.

About the Application Process

• We might make some adjustments, but our previous interview process has consisted of:

• A 30-minute intro call, to learn more about you, and understand whether this role is a mutual fit.

• A 1-hour hiring manager call where we’ll dive deep into a past project

• A virtual onsite with

  • A 1-hour programming interview where you’ll fix bugs and implement features on a toy repo

  • A 1-hour systems design problem

  • A 45-minute culture fit call with non-technical team members

• Reference calls

We’re building an inclusive and equitable platform for learners across the world, and it’s important our core team reflects these principles too. We strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups apply!