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Sr. Fullstack Engineer I (24 months fixed-term)

Sr. Fullstack Engineer I (24 months fixed-term)

Khan AcademyNational City, CA, United States
1 day ago
Job type
  • Temporary
Job description

ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY

Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to deliver a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Our proven learning platform offers free, high-quality supplemental learning content and practice that cover Pre-K - 12th grade and early college core academic subjects, focusing on math and science. We have over 181 million registered learners globally and are committed to improving learning outcomes for students worldwide, focusing on learners in historically under-resourced communities.

OUR COMMUNITY

Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life, and so do we.Our team includes people from academia, traditional / non-traditional education, big tech companies, and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences because it makes our company stronger.We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as necessary to achieve our mission and impact the communities we serve.We know that transforming education starts in-house with learning about ourselves and our colleagues. We strive to be world-class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.

THE ROLE

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer I on a 24 months fixed-term, you will be working on product teams focused on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities of students and teachers. On the product team, you might work on projects such as :

  • Building 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.

We are a remote-first organization and we strive to build using technology that is best suited to solving problems for our learners. Currently, we build with Go, GraphQL, TypeScript, React, React Router and we adopt new technologies including AI tools and IDEs that leverage AI when theyll help us better achieve our goals. At Khan, one of our values is Cultivate Learning Mindsets, so for us, its important that were working with all of our engineers to help match the right opportunity to the right individual, in order to ensure every engineer is operating at their learning edge.

WHAT YOU BRING

  • 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.
  • Experience building user interfaces with accessibility in mind is a plus.
  • Strong technical project management skills, as our Senior Software Engineers often lead projects.
  • Experience building and maintaining complex software. Youll join us in writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems. Youll write testable, quality code. Youll 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. Youre 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.
  • Prior experience building an ELA learning or assessment product (using Generative AI / LLMs) a plus.
  • PERKS AND 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. The pay range for this position is a general guideline only. The salary offered will depend on internal pay equity and the candidates 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.

    MORE ABOUT US

  • Sals TED talk from 2011
  • Sals TED talk from 2015
  • Sals TED talk from 2023
  • Our team : Khan Academy team page
  • OUR COMPANY VALUES

    Live & breathe learners

    We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.

    Take a stand

    As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.

    Embrace diverse perspectives

    We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.

    Work responsibly and sustainably

    We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.

    Bring out the joy

    We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.

    Cultivate learning mindset

    We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and arent afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.

    Deliver wow

    We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things each of which aligns to our ambitious vision so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.

    We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply.

    As part of this commitment, Khan Academy will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact careers@

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