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 155 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
Currently we are focused on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities of learners and teachers. On the Product team, 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.
- Partnering with public school districts with a high percentage of Free and Reduced Price Lunch students to build and scale our teacher and learner tools to millions of learners who otherwise would not have discovered us.
- Building tools for teachers to use Khan Academy as a strategic supplement in their classrooms.
With the recent launch of Khanmigo and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a technology, this role will help harness the power of AI to deliver the product capabilities where applicable.
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”.
WHAT YOU BRING
- 10+ years experience building world-class product experiences for an interactive web-app, including building and maintaining scalable backend services and complex, stateful frontend user interfaces.
- Experience using Generative AI / LLMs to build products and fine-tune models, with knowledge of common prompt engineering techniques and current state of generative models.
- Deep technical project management skills, as our Staff Software Engineers often lead projects across multiple surface areas.
- Experience building and maintaining complex software, writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems, and producing testable, quality code.
- Strong communication skills and a desire to give and receive regular feedback.
- Motivated by the Khan Academy mission “to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.”
- Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization.
- Empathy for learners around the world and a passion for helping others learn to love learning.
- Excitement about helping Khan Academy bring a free, world-class education to the world.
WE WELCOME
Candidates with experience in any and all technologies. We don’t require experience in any particular language or tool. Our commitment to onboarding and mentorship means you won’t be left in the dark as you learn new technologies.
PERKS AND 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.
- 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
- Comprehensive insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and life
- 401(k) + 4% matching
At 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.
The target salary range for this position is $181,990 - $227,488 USD / $227,488 - $284,360 CAD. The salary offered will depend on internal pay equity and the candidate’s relevant skills, experience, qualifications, and job market data.
MORE ABOUT US
OUR COMPANY VALUES
Live & breathe learners
We deeply understand and empathize with our users. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
Take a stand
As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. We commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
Embrace diverse perspectives
We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives, and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes.
Work responsibly and sustainably
We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and focus on delivery that links to the bigger picture.
Bring out the joy
We are committed to making learning a joyful process, which informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create.
Cultivate learning mindset
We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves, constantly learning and teaching to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization.
Deliver wow
We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on.
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.
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