Outschool
Education
PrincipalSoftwareEngineer
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“Principal Software Engineer at Outschool. Skills: AI development, product building, engineering leadership. developing key products. Execute true 0-to-1 efforts”
What You'll Achieve.
shipping real education impact for millions of families; advance our AI posture; achieve outsized results in pursuit of our mission
Industry & Context.
embracing ambiguity as an opportunity rather than a challenge
on-call rotations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
exemplary proficiency in domain understanding, user empathy, engineering design, system quality, cross-functional collaboration, innovative and action-oriented mindset, embracing ambiguity as an opportunity rather than a challenge, deep IC who leads by example, senior engineering leader, AI angle
Nice to Have
deeply enthusiastic about building with AI, deeply passionate about shipping real education impact for millions of families, can go deep into product building in a new space, can also go wide to be a force-multiplier for the entire engineering organization to advance our AI posture
What You'll Do.
developing key products
Execute true 0-to-1 efforts
Lead Outschool’s AI-native development transformation
Take on people management responsibilities as needed
shape Outschool’s engineering culture and processes
Participate in stand-ups
production deployments
and on-call rotations
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
cross-functional collaboration; cross-team lead
Process & Methodology
sprint planning, retros
Full Job Description
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 1M 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 Outschool is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help build key products using an agentic-first development approach. You'll contribute to building innovative 0-to-1 products, and act as a critical lead to push forward Outschool’s AI development transformation. While this is primarily a deep individual contributor role, you will also have the opportunity to step into light leadership and people management responsibilities as needed. This is an ideal opportunity for someone
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