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

Khan Academy is a nonprofit focused on delivering free, world-class education to learners globally. They are seeking a Senior Fullstack Engineer to build and maintain core systems for their content platform, enabling efficient content creation and delivery to millions of learners.

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

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