Senior Fullstack Engineer I, Content Platform (24 months fixed-term)

Khan Academy • Mountain View, CA

15h • Remote

About The Position

Khan Academy’s Content Platform team builds and maintains the core systems that power how our content is created, translated, published, and served at global scale. Our work directly supports equitable access to high-quality learning by enabling creators, translators, and downstream product teams to operate efficiently, reliably, and safely.
The Content Platform team owns not only backend services and pipelines, but also large, complex frontend surfaces used daily by content creators, translators, and internal product teams around the world.
As a Platform Engineer, you’ll focus on the foundational infrastructure, tooling, pipelines, and frontend and backend systems that other teams depend on, guided by our Engineering Principles. You might work on projects such as:
Designing and building complex, stateful frontend applications that power critical authoring, translation, and review workflows at global scale.
Designing and evolving content pipelines that support authoring, localization, validation, and publishing for millions of learners worldwide.
Building and maintaining internal platforms, APIs, and services that enable product teams and content creators to move faster with confidence.
Improving the performance, reliability, and observability of systems that serve content.
Establishing strong engineering standards around testing, monitoring, migrations, and system ownership to support long-term sustainability.
With the recent launch of Khanmigo and AI-powered capabilities, this role will also help ensure that our platform can safely and reliably support AI-enabled workflows, whether that’s content generation, review, translation, or delivery, while maintaining high quality, trust, and scale. This is a role for engineers who enjoy working close to the core of the system, enabling others, and solving complex platform problems that have outsized impact across the organization, including owning and evolving long-lived frontend architectures that many teams rely on.
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”.
You can read about our latest work on our Engineering Blog. A few highlights:
Incremental Rewrites with GraphQL
Our Transition to React Native
Go + Services = One Goliath Project
How Engineering Principles Can Help You Scale
How to upgrade hundreds of React components without breaking production

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building world-class product experiences for interactive web applications.
• Deep experience building and maintaining large, complex frontend applications (React or similar), including state management, data modeling, performance optimization, and long-term maintainability.
• Experience building and maintaining scalable backend services, and working effectively across frontend and backend boundaries.
• Experience leading or making significant contributions to frontend refactors, migrations, or architectural improvements in production systems.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience using Generative AI / LLMs to build products a plus (but not required).

Responsibilities

• Designing and building complex, stateful frontend applications that power critical authoring, translation, and review workflows at global scale.
• Designing and evolving content pipelines that support authoring, localization, validation, and publishing for millions of learners worldwide.
• Building and maintaining internal platforms, APIs, and services that enable product teams and content creators to move faster with confidence.
• Improving the performance, reliability, and observability of systems that serve content.
• Establishing strong engineering standards around testing, monitoring, migrations, and system ownership to support long-term sustainability.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed