Senior Software Engineer, Khan Academy

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$165.5-201.3k

Salary range for applicants in Canada: 206,875 - 251,562 CAD. Plus equity

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Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from Canada, US

Nonprofit online education platform

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Nonprofit online education platform

1001+ employees

B2CEducationLearningCharity

Job no longer available

$165.5-201.3k

Salary range for applicants in Canada: 206,875 - 251,562 CAD. Plus equity

React

Redux

React Native

JavaScript

GraphQL

Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from Canada, US

1001+ employees

B2CEducationLearningCharity

Company mission

Khan Academy's mission is to provide a free, world‑class education for anyone, anywhere.

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Company

Role

Who you are

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
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
Experience building, delivering, and advocating for accessible experiences that center the needs of users with disabilities
You know how to integrate the WCAG accessibility specification into your engineering work. Additionally, experience working with VPATs is a plus
Motivated by the Khan Academy mission “to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere."
Strong communication, thoughtfulness, and desire to give and receive regular feedback
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
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

What the job involves

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

Our take

Khan Academy is a non-profit that provides free online education materials, including teacher tools, instruction videos, and practice exercises to support users of all ages. It has over 10 million users a month and covers subjects all the way up to college level.

With nearly a quarter of American adults unable to use mathematics in daily life, Khan Academy’s interactive quizzes, instructional videos, and teacher tools are timely. Khan Academy started life as a series of educational YouTube videos, before building a full-scale platform after receiving an influx of donations from Silicon Valley philanthropists. This background has led it to embrace rather than reject the educational possibilities of new tech such as AI, with the founder regarding traditional institution's banning of tools like ChatGPT as a mistake.

The company offers its tools completely for free, instead relying on donations and volunteers. A key focus is tackling wealth inequality in education. A partnership with the College Board (who produce entrance examinations for higher education) has made access to SAT test prep materials free for millions. 2024 saw a partnership with Microsoft for Khan Academy's Khanmigo product, now free to use for Microsoft customers.

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Insights

Led by a woman

23% employee growth in 12 months

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Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jul 2020

$3m

GRANT

Oct 2017

$3m

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Total funding: $16.2m

Company benefits

Flexible spending account (FSA)
Dental insurance
Optical insurance
Life insurance
Performance bonus
401K plan
Family medical leave
Diversity program
Pet friendly workplace
Work from home opportunities
Health insurance
Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Caroline Hu Flexer

(CEO)

Holds a BA and MArch in Architecture from Stanford and Harvard University. They also have an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and formerly co-founded Duck Duck Moose, a mobile educational platform for children.

Salman Khan

(Executive Director)

They graduated from Harvard Business School and have previously worked in Finance.

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