Senior Fullstack Engineer I

Summary

Join Khan Academy as a Senior Fullstack Engineer on a 24-month fixed-term contract and contribute to building equitable learning solutions for under-resourced communities. You will collaborate with product teams on projects such as developing teacher tools for using Khan Academy, integrating learning science to address literacy gaps, and leveraging AI to enhance product capabilities. The role requires 5+ years of experience in building interactive web applications, including scalable backend services and complex frontends. Strong collaboration skills, technical project management experience, and a commitment to building accessible user interfaces are essential. The position offers a remote-first culture, ample paid time off, generous parental leave, and a competitive salary.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience building world-class product experiences for an interactive web-app
• In particular, you have built and maintained scalable backend services, as well as complex, stateful frontend user interfaces
• Deep collaboration with other engineers, designers, product managers is a must and prior experience working with AI engineers to build AI-driven features that support education use cases is a bonus
• Strong technical project management skills, as our Senior Software Engineers often lead projects
• Experience building and maintaining complex software
• You’ll join us in writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems
• You’ll write testable, quality code
• You’ll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions
• Strong communication, thoughtfulness, and desire to give and receive regular feedback
• Empathy for learners around the world
• You love learning and are excited about helping others learn to love learning
• You’re motivated to learn new things and share what you learn with the world
• Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness, awareness of other, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization
• Excitement about helping Khan Academy bring a free, world-class education to the world

Responsibilities

• Build tools for teachers to use Khan Academy as a strategic supplement in their classrooms
• Integrating state of the art learning science into our product to enable students and teachers identify and address literacy skill gaps
• This role will help harness the power of AI to deliver product capabilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building user interfaces with accessibility in mind is a plus
• Prior experience building an ELA learning or assessment product (using Generative AI / LLMs) a plus

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Ample paid time off as needed – Your well-being is a priority
• Remote-first culture - that caters to your time zone, with open flexibility as needed, at times
• Generous parental leave
• An exceptional team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to do your best
• The chance to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
• Opportunities to connect through affinity, ally, and social groups
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and life