Senior Software Engineer

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. 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 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.

Schoolhouse.world is a non-profit startup founded by Sal Khan that is scaling free, peer-to-peer tutoring to students across the world. Leveraging the power of teaching as a form of learning, we have already reached over 100K learners from 150+ countries, with plans to grow the platform to millions. Our team has a mission to explore the important role of human connection in an educational landscape that’s being rapidly disrupted by AI, and discover new models where the two can work hand-in-hand.