[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Epic Kids is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack to own features end-to-end across its web application and services. The role focuses on architecture, implementation, code quality, mentoring, technical design leadership, and production support.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship features end-to-end across the full stack, from spec to production
• Make sound decisions on architecture, data modeling, and API design; document trade-offs and align stakeholders
• Drive code quality through code review and testing across front-end and back-end
• 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, holding generated code to the same quality bar
• Participate in production support -- investigations, post-mortems, and systemic fixes

Skills

• 5+ years of professional software engineering, owning complex, cross-team work autonomously
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Strong front-end engineering with a modern component framework (Angular a plus), plus solid TypeScript/JavaScript and UI fundamentals (HTML, CSS, accessibility)
• Strong back-end engineering in a modern server-side language (we use PHP and Go)
• Relational-database proficiency -- data modeling, performant queries, and indexing
• Experience designing and operating production APIs (REST or gRPC)
• Comfort with Git, pull-request workflows, and CI/CD
• Direct experience with our stack (Angular, PHP/Symfony, Go, MySQL) a plus
• Experience leading a service migration between languages/runtimes (e.g., PHP to Go) in production
• Familiarity with Tera for server-side templating
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (GKE) at the application-developer level
• Cloud-platform experience -- GCP preferred, AWS or Azure acceptable
• Experience operating against an observability stack (New Relic, Datadog, or similar)
• Awareness of children's-privacy compliance frameworks (COPPA, FERPA)
• Proficiency in Mandarin Chinese a plus

Benefits

• Fully remote, US-based role
• Bonus (included in the stated compensation range)

Company Overview

Designed for unlimited discovery and unmatched safety, Epic is the leading digital reading platform for kids—trusted by over 50 million children in homes and classrooms around the world. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.getepic.com/.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Epic for Kids has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2024, 13 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 5 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.