The Mission

NeighborSchools is on a mission to reinvent child care from the ground up. 

Today in America, working-parents with young children spend over $75B a year on child care, but the caregivers, the hard-working women* who actually work hands-on with our children, they get paid peanuts. The problem is that big child care centers are so expensive to run that they have to charge parents a ton, and there's still very little left over for the caregivers. This forces the best caregivers to leave child care in search of better wages, and leaves families struggling to find quality care. 

At NeighborSchools, we've developed a new solution that puts people first. We help individual caregivers go independent, get licensed, open up micro-daycares in their homes, and work directly with families in the community. Caregivers that launch daycares on NeighborSchools earn 2-3X more than preschool teachers, even while charging parents less for child care. And children benefit from the small, intimate settings and programs led by experienced professionals. That's the win-win-win. 

Our goal is to help a million caregivers launch new, independent daycares in the next 10 years and bring quality, affordable child care to every neighborhood in America. 

* over 99% of prospective daycare providers signing up for NeighborSchools are women.

The Role

Engineers at NeighborSchools have the opportunity to:

- Work on a powerful web app that supports a two-sided marketplace

- Use programming skills for social good

- Develop within an extremely collaborative environment

- Contribute across the stack

- Have a say in product design and user experience

- Scale a product from an early stage

We are building a team of people who:

- Care about the quality of their code, but can also balance priorities against perfection

- Think critically about what they are working on and are willing to speak up if they have a new idea

- Care deeply about the end user experience

- Have humility and understand that we all write code that may have to be refactored one day after gaining a better understanding of the problem

- Are eager to learn and grow

- Have 3+ years of industry experience

Our technologies (previous experience not required):

• TypeScript
• React
• GraphQL
• Node.js
• Next.js
• Material UI
• Express
• Prisma
• AWS

If you meet some but not all of the qualifications here, and you’re passionate about our mission and this opportunity, we hope you’ll apply anyway. 

Culture & Values

NeighborSchools is a mission-driven startup, and we prioritize candidates who demonstrate a passion for our cause. We work hard, we work as a team, and we care deeply about the success of every caregiver and parent who comes to NeighborSchools.

We try to ensure NeighborSchools is an inclusive and diverse place where everyone feels happy, fulfilled, respected, comfortable, and welcome. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We care a lot, so our benefits are actually benefits, not just the fun stuff like swag and team lunches (though we have that too!).

Benefits & Perks 

Most people join NeighborSchools for a chance to work on our mission and with our smart, sincere team. But we take care of our own as well:

- Strong compensation package, including meaningful equity in a high-growth, early-stage startup

- Your choice of medical, dental, & vision insurance for you and your family

- Free OneMedical membership 

- 401(k) 

- 12 weeks paid family leave (parents work here!)

- Flexible schedules

- Unlimited PTO (which we track to make sure that everyone takes time off!)

- Home office stipend

Location:

We are fully remote team and have been thoughtful in investing to make sure that you are supported, successful, and a full-fledged member of this team regardless of where you call home. 

NeighborSchools is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.