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 (), Kevin Bai & Victor Cardenas ().
We’re looking for high-agency full-stack 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.
Skills: React & TypeScript
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Requirements:
Our tech stack:
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:
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:
Recruiters: We only want to hear from applicants. Emails from recruiters will be marked as spam.
The student information system (SIS) is the core system of record in every K-12 school. It tracks students, attendance, grades, schedules, staff, and more - kind of like the ERP for schools.
Legacy SIS providers do just about that, and not much more. School districts layer dozens of tools on top of their SIS to fill in the gaps.
Scout is an AI-powered student information system that automates school- and district-wide busywork, from day-to-day operations like attendance tracking to annual compliance reports. Our mission is to help school districts run like high-performing organizations, enabling them to provide high-quality, personalized instruction to every student.
Salary
$150,000 - $300,000
Equity
0.3% - 0.8%
Location
New York, NY, US
Experience
3+ years
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Noah Fichter
Co-Founder & CEO
Max Bertfield
Co-Founder & CTO
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.