Sr. Fullstack Engineer II, Product at Khan Academy

Sr. Fullstack Engineer II, Product at Khan Academy

Sr. Fullstack Engineer II, Product at Khan Academy, Mountain View, CA / Remote friendly (US + Canada Only)

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 155 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.

THE ROLE

Currently we are focused on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities of learners and teachers, and guided by our Engineering Principles. On the Product team, you might work on projects such as:

• Integrating state of the art learning science into our product to enable learners and teachers to quickly identify and address learning gaps on the fly.
• Partnering with public school districts with a high percentage of Free and Reduced Price Lunch students to build and scale our teacher and learner tools to millions of learners who otherwise would not have discovered us.
• Building tools for teachers to use Khan Academy as a strategic supplement in their classrooms.

With the recent launch of Khanmigo and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a technology, this role will help harness the power of AI to deliver the product capabilities where applicable.

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, JavaScript, React & React Native, Redux and we adopt new technologies like LLMs when they’ll help us better achieve our goals.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 8+ 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.
• 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.
• Motivated by the Khan Academy mission “to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.”
• Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness, awareness of others, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization.
• 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.
• Experience using Generative AI / LLMs to build products a plus (but not required).

PERKS AND 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.

The target salary range for this position (LEC IC 1B) is $165,500 – $201,250 USD / 206,875 – $217,900 CAD.

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.

Take a stand : As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will 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.

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.

Bring out the joy : We are committed to making learning a joyful process.

Cultivate learning mindset : We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves.

Deliver wow : We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on.

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.