\nABOUT KHAN ACADEMY\n\nKhan 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 resources that cover Pre-K-12th grade and early college core academic subjects, with a focus on math and science. We have over 155 million registered learners globally and are committed to improving learning outcomes for students around the world, with a focus on learners in historically under-resourced communities. \n\nOUR COMMUNITY \n\nOur 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.\n\nTHE ROLE\nWe are hiring a Sr. Software Engineer. We are focused on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities of learners and teachers, and guided by our Engineering Principles. You’ll help us build out our platform and leverage AI to democratize 1:1 tutoring for every learner, and a teaching assistant to every teacher, at scale.\nWe are a remote-first organization and we strive to build using technology that is best suited to solving problems for our learners. We build with Go, GraphQL, JavaScript, React & React Native, Redux and we adopt new technologies 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”.\nYou can read about our latest work on our Engineering Blog. A few highlights:\n\n* Incremental Rewrites with GraphQL\n\n* Our Transition to React Native\n\n* Go + Services = One Goliath Project\n\n* How Engineering Principles Can Help You Scale\n\n* How to upgrade hundreds of React components without breaking production\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n* 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.\n\n* 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.\n\n* Strong communication, thoughtfulness, and desire to give and receive regular feedback.\n\n* 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.\n\n* 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.\n\n* A motivation for Khan Academy's mission “to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.”\n\n* Experience using Machine Learning / LLMs to build products a plus (but not required).\n\n\n\nWe welcome candidates with experience in any and all technologies. We don’t require experience in any particular language or tool. Our commitment to on-boarding and mentorship means you won’t be left in the dark as you learn new technologies.\n\nPERKS AND BENEFITS\n\nWe may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team extremely well! We offer:\n\n\n* Competitive salaries\n\n* Ample paid time off as needed – Your well-being is a priority.\n\n* Remote-first culture - that caters to your time zone, with open flexibility as needed, at times\n\n* Generous parental leave\n\n* An exceptional team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to do your best\n\n* 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\n\n* Opportunities to connect through affinity, ally, and social groups\n\n* And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and life\n\n\n\n\nAt Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, the well-being of our employees, and our Khan community. This belief is why we have built out a robust Total Rewards package that includes competitive base salaries, and extensive benefits and perks to support physical, mental, and financial well-being.\n\nThe target salary for this position is $137,871 - $154,069 USD / $186,306 - $207,993 CAN. The pay range for this position is a general guideline only. The salary offered will depend on internal pay equity and the candidate’s relevant skills, experience, qualifications, and job market data. Exceptional performers in this role who make an outsized contribution can make well in excess of this range.  Additional incentives are provided as part of the complete total rewards package in addition to comprehensive medical and other benefits.\nMORE ABOUT US\n\n\n* Sal’s TED talk from 2011\n\n* Sal’s TED talk from 2015\n\n* Sal's TED talk from 2023\n\n* Our team:  http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team\n\n\n\nOUR COMPANY VALUES\n\nLive & breathe learners\n\nWe deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.\n\nTake a stand\n\nAs a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.\n\nEmbrace diverse perspectives\n\nWe are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team.\n\nWork responsibly and sustainably\n\nWe understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.\n\nBring out the joy\n\nWe are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors.\n\nCultivate learning mindset\n\nWe believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren’t afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.\n\nDeliver wow\n\nWe insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things — each of which aligns to our ambitious vision — so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.\n\nWe 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. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to React, Education, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nMountain View, California, United States

\nGreat Minds, a rapidly growing challenger brand in the PK–12 instructional materials space, seeks a  Senior Software Engineer  to join our dynamic, growing  Software Engineering  team.\n\n\n\n\nCOMPANY PROFILE\n\n\n\n\nGreat Minds, a mission driven Public Benefit Corporation, brings teachers and scholars together to craft exemplary instructional materials that inspire joy in teaching and learning. Our English curriculum, Wit & Wisdom®, Eureka Math™ and PhD Science™, all support teachers as they take students beyond rote learning to provide a deeper, more complete understanding of the humanities, mathematics, and the sciences. Founded in 2007, Great Minds now employs more than 1000 people. \n\nFor additional information please visit: www.greatminds.org\n\n\nOUR MARKET POSITION \n\nGreat Minds’ Eureka Math is the most widely used curriculum in the history of American education. It enjoys an unrivaled 40+ net promoter score. Eureka and its sister products, Wit & Wisdom English and PhD Science, embrace much higher expectations for all students and Do all teachers. In a market dominated by scripted, procedural materials that drive expectations down, Great Minds produces curricula that celebrate knowledge, respect the craft of teaching, and acknowledge the true capabilities of students. \n\n \nJob Purpose \n\nAs a Great Minds Senior Software Engineer you design and develop code on a modern, cloud native tech stack to deliver amazing customer experiences. You have the opportunity to design and build tools to scale and enhance our ability to release world-class software products. Your commitments to learning new technologies and how they will impact us in the future are paramount. \n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Write clean, extensible, well-tested code\n* Participate in architecture, design, and implementation decisions for key components of our platform\n* Work closely with product management to ensure we're building the best products\n* Act as a leader in our globally dispersed software engineering organization and garner team’s respect as an engineer\n\n\n\n* Identify risks/impediments, escalate issues, bring transparency to deliverables and ensure Agile delivery\n* Lead code reviews and participate in the development of best practices within the engineering team\n* Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs \n* Coach other software engineers on the craft of coding\n\n\n\n* Minimum 4 years experience writing, debugging, and testing software\n* Deep knowledge of JavaScript and/or Typescript, HTML, CSS\n* Strong experience with at least one of the following web frameworks (React, Angular, Vue). React is preferred\n* Experience with RESTful APIs, Cross browser compatibility, Accessibility, and Responsive UI\n* Experience with front-end performance optimization\n* In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)\n* Ability to build reusable code and libraries for distributed use\n* Adaptability and willingness to learn new programming languages and technologies\n* Possess good communication and reasoning skills\n* Degree in Computer Science or another relevant engineering discipline\n* Sense of intellectual curiosity and a passion for learning with a strong problem-solving mindset\n* Be self-driven, actively looking for ways to contribute and continuously improve the team and the product\n* Be comfortable with ambiguity and show a willingness to wear multiple hats based on the need\n\n\n\nPreferred:\n\n\n* Experience with Next.js\n* Experience with TailwindCSS and CSS-in-JS \n* Experience building component libraries \n* Experience with education or education technology\n\n\n\nLocation: Washington, DC, or remote\n\n\n\n\nIf selected for an interview, background check will be required.\n\nNew employees will be required to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination, subject to potential accommodation as required by law or otherwise permitted by the Company.\n\n\nAny communication to applicants relating to the Great Minds hiring process will only come from email addresses with the domains greatminds.org or greatminds.recruitee.com. If in the course of the application or hiring process with Great Minds you are contacted through another domain, are requested to provide banking or other sensitive information, or you note any other suspicious activity, please contact [email protected]\n\n\n\n\nGreat Minds is an equal opportunity employer. We will extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. Our policy reflects and affirms the organization’s commitment to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices. \n\n\n\n\n#li-remote \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ads, Mobile, Excel, Non Tech, Salesforce, API, Senior, Sales, SaaS, Engineer, Analyst, Microsoft, Marketing, Travel, Director, Cloud, Software, Ecommerce, Teaching, Video, Education, Python, Legal, JavaScript, Amazon, Junior, Stats, HR, Finance, React, Java, Serverless, Android, Drupal, Medical, Digital Nomad, Developer and Math jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWashington DC

IMPORTANT:\n \n1. This job is to work for a US company. An advanced level of English is a non-negotiable requirement. Please refrain from applying if this is not your case.\n \n2. This job is remote but if you’re not located in the region mentioned in the post’s title, do not continue. Your application won’t be reviewed. Please apply to the job posting for your country/region of residence.\nIf you’re in Brazil, Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad, and Tobago, or Venezuela, we’re sorry but we can’t consider your application at this moment. #LI-Remote\n \n3. To be considered for this position, resumes must be sent in English\n\nInterviewing for a new company is a serious time commitment for all parties involved. Please take the time to read this and thoughtfully consider if we would be a good fit for one another.  No contractors or agencies. Seriously.\n\nAbout Very\n\nVery has been a remote-first company since 2011 which has allowed us to develop an amazing remote working experience and to have a remote office culture that exceeds that of any traditional on-site office.\n\nWe’ve built a collaborative, tight-knit team that thrives, whether we’re hanging out in person at our annual retreat or coordinating work across time zones. The results show that we’re doing something right. In 2020, we were named one of Inc’s Best Workplaces, Parity.org's Best Companies for Women to Advance List, and Fatherly’s Best Places to Work for Dads.\n\nAt Very we are focused on delivering world-class IoT hardware, software, and smart product engineering services to our clients. We have a wide array of clients from enterprise-level clients such as Vizio, Clear and iHeart Radio to small greenfield start-ups. Whatever size company our goal remains the same - Deliver world-class IoT services and solutions and truly partner with our clients to ensure overall product success.\n\n\nAbout this Role\n\nVery is looking to hire an experienced software engineer specializing in native mobile development to work across a wide variety of projects and technology stacks.\n\nAs a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, scalable and well tested code. At Very, teaching and learning is at the core of what we do. Whether through pair programming, workshops, conferences or other cross project collaboration we expect every engineer to continue advancing and developing their skills.\n\nResponsibilities:\n- Execute end-to-end software development and deployment in an agile environment\n- Provide technical guidance to other team members\n- Influence work of multiple teams relating to overall engineering group objectives \n- Drive continuous process and technology improvements\n- Lead production monitoring and resolution impacts\n- Own and operate large sections of software and systems\n- Partner with Product to spec out the technical aspects of a feature from inception through delivery\n- Guide software design and delivery through influence and education\n- Write acceptance, integration and unit tests\n- Coach and mentor other engineers\n- Conduct architecture discussions when necessary\n- Participate in recruiting of candidates and improvement of the overall interview process\n- Support sales and pre-sales engineering work to ensure Very Client fit\n\nAt Very we do not have just one technology stack as we work on interesting problems, not specific technologies. However, we do have some preferred stacks and proficiency in two of them is required:\n\nBackend Web / Embedded Technologies\nElixir: Phoenix / Nerves\nPython: Django / Flask / Serverless / Scientific Python\nRuby: Rails\nJavaScript: NodeJS Backends\nKotlin/Java: Web Backends\nC/C++: Zephyr RTOS / BareMetal\n\nFrontend Web / Mobile Technologies\nTypeScript: React / React Native\nSwift/Objective C: iOS Native\nKotlin/Java: Android Native\n\nWe value well-tested, reusable code and expect our engineers to be as good of practitioners as they are leaders and teachers.\n\n\nWhat You’ll Be Working On\n\nWe take customer success extremely seriously here at Very. As a senior engineer, you will be partnering with our clients to bring their products to market. You will be utilizing one or more of the above mentioned technology stacks coupled with a cloud provider to deliver an end-to-end solution for our customers. \n\nEach project is slightly different and can contain any combination of hardware, firmware, web / mobile frontend as well as an API backend/cloud architecture. We follow best practices such as Infrastructure as Code, well thought out and designed CI/CD pipelines, TDD, and other testing best practices, and always keep an eye on scalability. \n\nWe remain as agile as possible working on delivering a vertical slice of all involved layers as early as possible so we can iterate and demonstrate progress. Your role on a project will be focused on your area of expertise coupled with your learning goals.\n\n\nQualifications\n\nRequired\nUnfortunately, applicants who do not meet these criteria will not be considered.\n\n* Lead-level Software Engineering experience: Can guide a team to successful outcomes by architecting overall solutions, ensuring that work across the team meets a high standard, and helping the team focus on efficient solutions to business problems.  Their quality of work and overall approach to problem-solving means that review of their work is mostly for the sake of discussion/clarity, rather than to ensure quality. \n* Lead-level native mobile engineering experience: Has developed from ent-to-end and published multiple Android and/or iOS apps\n* Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience\n* Strong experience with Android App and SDK development experience with Java and Kotlin\n* Experience delivering and supporting  Android applications\n* Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle required\n* Good understanding of cross-platform app development\n* Experience with using RESTful Web Services with applications\n* Experience building web and API services, using remote data via REST and JSON\n* Experience in object orientated design and programming, design patterns, and related frameworks\n* Demonstrated expertise in continuous integration/delivery/deployment\n\nNice-to-haves\n* Experience with Docker and Kubernetes\n* Cloud development experience with AWS\n\nContract\n\nYour contract with Very will be as an independent contractor for an indefinite period.\nThis type of contract carries some additional responsibilities for you - you'll have to save some money to take care of taxes and you'll have to pay for public social security (Health and Pension) out of pocket.\n \nThat being said, we're confident that our competitive compensation and benefits package (see below) will still mean that you are happy with your take-home amount at the end of each month. For more information about Very and the contract type, see here.\n\nHow You’ll Be Compensated\n\nBase compensation\nDepending on your skill and experience, you can expect a monthly salary between USD $7,900 and $11,100 upon joining the company.  We also offer performance bonuses, a generous maternity/paternity leave policy, and numerous other employee benefits (including eliminating the stress and cost of commuting each day)\n\nWe also offer world-class perks:\n-$1,000 annual Healthcare Stipend (to be used towards Health insurance premium)\n-Paid Parental Leave\n-Continuing Education Stipend - After 1 year of Employment  ($3000/ year for learning and 100% of the costs if you’re speaking at an event)\n- Home Office Stipend ($1000 per year for your workstation / office)\n- $125/mo Monthly Communications Stipend (Can be used towards Cell Phone Data Plan, WiFi Plan, VOIP, VPN)\n- PTO / Sick Time\n- Variable Compensation based upon performance\n- MacBook Pro (Provided)\n- Personalized ESL coaching and access to an AI-powered adaptive platform to take your English to the next level\n\nAdditional Perks (could vary)\n- Paid trip to somewhere in the World for the annual global company retreat.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ads, Mobile, Excel, Non Tech, Salesforce, API, Senior, Sales, SaaS, Engineer, Analyst, Microsoft, Marketing, Travel, Director, Cloud, Software, Ecommerce, Teaching, Video, Education, Python, Legal, JavaScript, Amazon, Junior, Stats, HR, Finance, React, Java, Serverless and Android jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLatin America