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

About Khan Academy

Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Our learning platform offers free, high-quality supplemental learning content and practice for Pre-K through 12th grade and early college core academic subjects, with a particular focus on math and science. We have over 181 million registered learners globally and are committed to improving learning outcomes for students worldwide, especially those in historically under-resourced communities.

Our Community

Our team is as diverse as our students, teachers, and parents. We bring together individuals from academia, traditional and non-traditional education, big tech companies, and startups. We believe that hiring great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences strengthens our company. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as essential to achieving our mission and impacting the communities we serve. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment and investing in our people's professional development.

The Role

We are seeking a talented and driven Sr. Fullstack Engineer I for a 24-month fixed-term position to join our team. This role will be instrumental in expanding and enhancing our international products, supporting enterprise customers globally. We are increasing our focus on developing and improving systems for a significantly larger scale of international users, particularly in areas such as rostering, enrollment of large educational institutions, and providing data access for millions of students, teachers, and administrators.

Khan Academy is a remote-first organization. We build using technologies best suited for solving our learners' problems, currently including Go, GraphQL, JavaScript, React & React Native, and Redux. We also adopt new technologies like LLMs when they align with our goals. A core value at Khan Academy is "Cultivate Learning Mindsets," and we are dedicated to helping our engineers match opportunities to their learning edge.

You can learn more about our recent work on our Engineering Blog.

What You'll Do:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy robust and scalable software solutions to support our international expansion.
• Internalize and improve existing systems and architectures to handle increased international scale.
• Develop and maintain data access solutions to provide usage and outcome data for students, teachers, and administrators.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, design, and operations, to deliver high-quality software.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to international scalability and performance.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving coding standards and best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and share technical knowledge.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on scalable systems and experience using AI in the development process.
• Experience managing data import/export with business intelligence tools and systems.
• Experience with database systems and data access patterns.
• Experience with internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n).
• Experience building and maintaining complex software, writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• A strong motivation for Khan Academy's mission: "to provide a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere."