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Job Location drjobs

Mountain View, CA - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

$ 165446 - 205612

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

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 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 value diversity equity inclusion and belonging as necessary to achieve our mission and impact the communities 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 IIon a 24 months fixed termyou will be working on product teams focused on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities of students and teachers. As a product engineer you might work on projects such as:

  • Building tools for teachers to use Khan Academy as a strategic ELA 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. 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

  • 8 years experience building world-class product experiences for an interactive 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. Experience working with AI engineers to build AI-driven features that support education use cases 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.
  • Experience building user interfaces with accessibility in mind is a plus.
  • 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 everyone everywhere.
  • Prior experience building an ELA learning 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 $165446 - $205612 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.

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