Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack
About The Position
Epic Kids is a digital reading platform for children 12 and under, offering books, videos, and educational content through a safe and engaging experience. The company describes its team as collaborative, fast-paced, and global, with a focus on products that support children's education and literacy. The Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack owns features end-to-end across Epic's web application, including its Angular front end, PHP/Symfony and Go services, and MySQL database. The role contributes to engineering quality and works closely with a global team with members in the US and China. It is fully remote and US-based. The company values engineering strength over prior experience with a particular stack, with the expectation that strong engineers can ramp up on its technologies.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including autonomous ownership of complex, cross-team work.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong front-end engineering skills with a modern component framework; Angular is a plus.
- Solid TypeScript/JavaScript skills and UI fundamentals, including HTML, CSS, and accessibility.
- Strong back-end engineering skills in a modern server-side language; the company uses PHP and Go.
- Relational-database proficiency, including data modeling, performant queries, and indexing.
- Experience designing and operating production APIs using REST or gRPC.
- Comfort with Git, pull-request workflows, and CI/CD.
Nice To Haves
- Direct experience with Angular, PHP/Symfony, Go, and MySQL.
- Experience leading a production service migration between languages or runtimes, such as PHP to Go.
- Familiarity with Tera for server-side templating.
- Application-developer-level experience with Docker and Kubernetes (GKE).
- Cloud-platform experience; GCP is preferred, while AWS or Azure is acceptable.
- Experience operating with an observability stack such as New Relic, Datadog, or similar.
- Awareness of children's-privacy compliance frameworks such as COPPA and FERPA.
- Proficiency in Mandarin Chinese.
Responsibilities
- Design and ship features across the full stack, from specification through production.
- Make architecture, data-modeling, and API-design decisions; document trade-offs and align stakeholders.
- Drive code quality through code review and testing across front-end and back-end systems.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code review and pairing.
- Lead technical design reviews, RFCs, and architecture discussions.
- Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery while holding generated code to the same quality bar.
- Participate in production support, including investigations, post-mortems, and systemic fixes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
