Senior Software Engineer, Khan Academy

• 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

• 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

• 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

Total funding: $16.2m

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.