Sr. Fullstack Engineer II, Assessments

Khan Academy; National City (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A nonprofit educational organization in California is seeking a Sr. Fullstack Engineer II. This remote-first role focuses on developing equitable solutions using AI for assessments. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in product development, with strong skills in building web applications. The position offers competitive salaries, ample paid time off, and a chance to contribute to a meaningful mission.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Ample paid time off

Remote-first culture

Generous parental leave

401(k) + 4% matching

Comprehensive insurance

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in interactive web-app development.
• Experience with generative AI or assessments products is a plus.
• Strong communication and project management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Integrate learning science into products.
• Build tools for teachers.
• Develop an AI-driven assessments experience.

Skills

Building world-class product experiences

Strong technical project management skills

Cross-cultural competency

Empathy for learners

Strong communication skills

Tools

Go

GraphQL

TypeScript

React

Job description

ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY

Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to deliver a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Our proven learning platform offers free, high-quality supplemental learning content and practice that cover Pre-K - 12th grade and early college core academic subjects, focusing on math and science. We have over 181 million registered learners globally and are committed to improving learning outcomes for students worldwide, focusing on learners in historically under-resourced communities.

OUR COMMUNITY

Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life, and so do we. Our team includes people from academia, traditional/non-traditional education, big tech companies, and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences because it makes our company stronger. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as necessary to achieve our mission and impact the communities we serve. We know that transforming education starts in-house with learning about ourselves and our colleagues. We strive to be world-class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.

THE ROLE

We are seeking a Sr. Fullstack Engineer II. Currently, we are focused on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities of learners and teachers. As a product engineer, you might work on projects such as:

• 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.
• Building tools for teachers to use Khan Academy as a strategic supplement in their classrooms.

This role will help harness the power of AI to deliver the product capabilities for an assessments experience for students and teachers.

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, TypeScript, React, React Router, and we adopt new technologies, including AI tools and IDE’s that leverage AI when they’ll help us better achieve our goals. At Khan, one of our values is “Cultivate Learning Mindsets”, so for us, it’s essential 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”.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 8+ 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.
• Prior experience building a learning or assessments product (using Generative AI / LLMs) a plus.
• Experience building user interfaces with accessibility in mind a plus.
• 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.
• Strong communication, thoughtfulness, and desire to give and receive regular feedback.
• 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.
• 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.
• Excitement about helping Khan Academy bring a free, world-class education to the world.

PERKS AND BENEFITS

We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well! We offer:

• 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
• And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and life

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply.

Khan Academy will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact [e-mail]