Software 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 a database for schools to store student and staff data. Every school has an SIS, but it’s one of the lowest NPS products in the history of software. 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 software engineers who want to own features end-to-end, from ideation to fleshing out requirements to quickly shipping an MVP to iterating until it is robust and scalable. This is a perfect role for a future founder who wants to see what the early days are like.

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.
• 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 in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, 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

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.

We work 6 days a week (Mon-Sat) in person in our office in lower Manhattan.

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)