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Khan Academy · 3 hours ago

Sr. Software Engineer, Literacy & ELA

Mountain View, HI

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$138K/yr - $154K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

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.

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.

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.

A motivation for Khan Academy's mission 'to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.'

Experience using Machine Learning / LLMs to build products a plus (but not required).

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5+ years experience building world-class product experiences for an interactive web-app.

Experience building and maintaining complex software.

Strong communication, thoughtfulness, and desire to give and receive regular feedback.

Empathy for learners around the world.

A motivation for Khan Academy's mission 'to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.'

Preferred

Experience using Machine Learning / LLMs to build products a plus (but not required).

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

401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and life

Company

Khan Academy

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Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization that provides a free world class education for anyone, anywhere.

Founded in 2006

Port Washington, New York, USA

51-200 employees

http://khanacademy.org/

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