Software Engineer

Scout Full-Stack Engineer

Scout is the AI-native operating system for schools. Our first product, Scout SIS, is a student information system (SIS). At its core, the SIS is a database for schools to store student and staff data. Legacy players like PowerSchool are multibillion-dollar, rent-extracting companies that squeeze every dollar they can out of schools by locking them into long-term contracts for products that require significant hidden add-on fees to function properly. We're trying to change that by automating complex back-office workflows across data validation, legal compliance, and government reporting.

We believe that having a highly efficient back-office with access to an interoperable data store will enable school districts to offer the highest quality of instruction to students, and our OS will enable an ecosystem of next-gen edtech software companies to flourish.

Scout is backed by Reach Capital, Rethink Education, Y Combinator, and YC founders including Dan Carroll (Clever), Jinal Jhaveri (SchoolMint), Justin Wenig (Coursedog/Starbridge), Pasha Rayan (Forage/a1base), Will Drevno (Drapr), Kevin Bai & Victor Cardenas (Slash).

About the Role

We're looking for high-agency full-stack engineers who want to own features end-to-end, from ideation to fleshing out requirements with customers they're responsible for to quickly shipping an MVP to iterating until it is robust and scalable.

Skills: React & TypeScript

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the technical vision and product direction as a core team member.
• Take ownership of zero-to-one features for our web, mobile, and backend applications.
• Sit in on sales calls and talk to our customers to deeply understand what we're building.
• Own the relationship with customers, and ensure they get Scout setup correctly, and have all the features they need to be successful.
• Do what it takes to build an early-stage startup. Everyone has to do everything. "That's not my job" isn't in our vocabulary.

Requirements:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience building production software in a team environment.
• History of adopting cutting edge technology and software development tools.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including written and verbal communication.
• Deep passion for making a massive impact on the world.

Our tech stack:

• React (NextJS)
• Typescript
• CockroachDB + Prisma
• Temporal
• OpenAI/Anthropic LLMs

About the Company

Scout is backed by Reach Capital, Rethink Education, Y Combinator, and YC founders including Dan Carroll (Clever), Jinal Jhaveri (SchoolMint), Justin Wenig (Coursedog/Starbridge), Pasha Rayan (Forage/a1base), Will Drevno (Drapr), Kevin Bai & Victor Cardenas (Slash).

We are a highly collaborative team made up exclusively of 10x engineers. As a group, we:

• take sales/customer calls and debrief
• discuss product/vision decisions
• work through tough engineering problems

But we also expect a high sense of ownership and reliability from our engineers: every engineer is able to take end-to-end ownership to deliver results that matter to our customers.

Benefits include:

• Great health, vision, dental insurance
• Regular team offsites
• Membership to a gym near the office
• Monthly book stipend
• Monthly new-tool stipend
• Daily food stipend
• Daily commuter stipend
• Ability to early exercise stock options for tax benefits
• Relocation stipend (if applicable)

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