Full Stack Engineer, Khan Academy

• 2+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on scalable systems and experience using AI in the development process
• Experience with database systems and data access patterns
• Experience with internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) is a plus
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code
• 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 other, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization

Desirable

• We are seeking a talented and driven Fullstack Engineer II (24 months fixed-term) to join our team and play a key role in expanding and enhancing our international products
• We support Enterprise customers in the U.S. and abroad, and are increasing our focus on developing and improving our systems for a significantly larger scale of international users, particularly in areas like rostering, enrollment of large educational institutions, and providing data access to usage and outcome data for millions of students, teachers, and administrators
• 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
• At Khan, one of our values is “Cultivate Learning Mindsets”, so for us, it’s important that we’re 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”
• Develop, test, and deploy software solutions to support our international expansion
• Contribute to improving existing systems and architectures to handle increased international scale
• Assist in developing and maintaining data access solutions to provide usage and outcome data
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, design, and operations
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to international scalability and performance
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to maintaining coding standards
• Learn from and be mentored by senior engineers