Khan Academy - Senior Fullstack Engineer I, Content Platform (24 months fixed-term)
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Requirements
• 5+ years of experience building world-class product experiences for interactive web applications. • Deep experience building and maintaining large, complex frontend applications (React or similar), including state management, data modeling, performance optimization, and long-term maintainability. • Experience building and maintaining scalable backend services, and working effectively across frontend and backend boundaries. • Experience leading or making significant contributions to frontend refactors, migrations, or architectural improvements in production systems. • 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. • Experience using Generative AI / LLMs to build products a plus (but not required). • Please note: We welcome candidates with experience in any and all technologies. We don’t require experience in any particular language or tool. Our commitment to on-boarding and mentorship means you won’t be left in the dark as you learn new technologies.
Benefits
• We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well! We offer: • 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 • At Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, the well-being of our employees, and our Khan community. This belief is why we have built out a robust Total Rewards package that includes competitive base salaries, and extensive benefits and perks to support physical, mental, and financial well-being. • The target salary range for this position is $137,871 - $172,339 USD / $186,306 - $232,883 CAD. The pay range for this position is a general guideline only. The salary offered will depend on internal pay equity and the candidate’s relevant skills, experience, qualifications, and job market data. Additional incentives are provided as part of the complete total rewards package, in addition to comprehensive medical and other benefits.
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