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About Schoolhouse

Schoolhouse.world is a non-profit startup founded by Sal Khan with the mission of connecting the world through learning. Our peer tutoring platform empowers learners everywhere with free online tutoring over Zoom. We currently have over 100K users from 150+ countries, with plans to grow the platform to millions.

We are a 17-person remote team—small but mighty—and are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment.

About the Vision

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

• The Power of Peer Tutoring

• Schoolhouse’s Public Roadmap

About working at Schoolhouse

• Fully remote with flexible hours (with meetings in US Pacific Time)

• Competitive salary with comprehensive benefits

• Work-from-home stipend and professional development stipend

• Semesterly retreats and monthly regional meetups (we’ve got folks all over with clusters in NYC, Seattle, and the Bay Area)

• An opportunity to make direct impact on education at a global scale

About the Role

We’re searching for a passionate and experienced Senior Software Engineer to help shape the future of accessible tutoring and education. As a senior member of our 5-person engineering team, you will build full-stack features and infrastructure that directly impact hundreds of thousands of learners and tutors worldwide. If you love solving complex problems, moving fast, and seeing your work make a tangible impact, this is the place for you.

One week you might be building a new full-stack assessments feature for tutors and learners around the world, and the next you might be ensuring our backend infrastructure can scale to support hundreds of thousands of users.

What You’ll Do

• Own full stack projects that impact hundreds of thousands of learners and tutors.

• Make key technical decisions that improve our architecture, systems, and codebase

• Mentor and support engineers, helping them grow and improve.

• Collaborate closely with design, partnerships, and product teams.

• Help shape the engineering culture of a fast-moving, mission-driven startup.

Examples of what you might work on

• Building an AI tutor coach that helps tutors navigate their live sessions at scale

• Improving the reliability of our video certification uploading system

• Profiling and optimizing the performance of our data fetches to improve page load performance

About You

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

Skills & Experience

• You are an experienced software engineer that knows how to ship and maintain scalable web apps.

• You feel comfortable building out a new user experience, creating server-side abstractions that better organize our codebase, and spinning up infrastructure improvements that help us scale.

• You have a track record of designing and building systems and can talk through tradeoffs between stability, scalability, and maintainability.

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

Values

• You embody our organizational values.

• You love writing high-quality code.

• You’re excited to own full stack projects and love seeing your projects impact end users.

• You thrive in a fast-paced startup environment: embracing ambiguity, uncertainty, experimentation.

• You’re excited about mentoring and helping other engineers grow, but are also eager to learn from and alongside them too.

Bonus points

• You have experience with our stack (Typescript, Node, Next.js, React, PostgreSQL, AWS)

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

About the Application Process

• Apply here by 11:59 PM ET on February 23rd, 2025 

• We might make some adjustments, but our previous interview processes have consisted of:

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

  1. A 2-hour take-home project, where you’ll implement a feature in a web application that mirrors our stack.

  2. A 1-hour live interview where we’ll pair program on fixing bugs and implementing features on a toy repo.

  3. A 1-hour live interview to work through a systems design problem together.

  4. Reference calls.

  5. If needed, one additional 45-minute call to talk through any remaining questions.

We are committed to 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.