Senior Software Engineer

Schoolhouse.world — free peer-to-peer learning platform founded by Sal Khan · nonprofit · ~15 employees

Remote — United StatesFull-time · Remote (US)$197K – $207K USD base (fixed pay bands, no negotiation)

About the role

Schoolhouse.world is a peer-to-peer learning platform founded by Sal Khan, the creator of Khan Academy, that gives anyone free, high-quality online tutoring and human connection. It has reached more than 200,000 learners in 180+ countries and focuses on durable skills such as communication, empathy, leadership and critical thinking. It runs as an independent nonprofit, funded by donors, grants, foundations and partners such as College Board.

You'll join a five-person engineering team and own full-stack products from ambiguous problem to launch, working in small pods with designers and program leads to define problems, ship experiments and iterate quickly. They want product-minded engineers who wear multiple hats and talk directly to users. The mission-driven culture values sincerity, empathy and human connection.

Remote across the US. Engineers share an on-call rotation of about one week in every six.

What you will own

Own full-stack features end to end: work with stakeholders and users to define problems, scope MVPs, build and iterate on solutions for thousands of learners and tutors worldwide
Work in cross-functional pods with engineers, designers and program leads to stand up new learning programs and experiments
Contribute product thinking: interview users, propose solutions and balance technical feasibility with user needs rather than just executing tickets
Write clean, readable code across the stack (TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Postgres) and improve patterns that make future development easier
Review code, pair with teammates and join the on-call rotation to keep the platform reliable and safe

Requirements

Must haveHas shipped full-stack B2C products end to end to thousands of users

Must haveExperience with typed languages and relational databases

Must have5–13 years of full-stack software engineering experience (TypeScript, React, Next.js, Postgres)

Must haveExperience at a small, high-growth consumer startup

Must haveA genuine interest in social impact and/or an education-focused mission

Must haveCan define user problems, work directly with non-technical users and stakeholders and propose product solutions, not just take tickets

Nice to haveExperience in ed-tech, marketplaces, or real-time or video products

Nice to haveAWS or GCP cloud infrastructure experience

Not a fitJob-hopping every one to two years with no clear reasoning

Not a fitOnly worked at large or legacy companies with strict role boundaries

We interview honestly against this list — if you meet most of the “Must have” rows, apply.