Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Epic Kids is the leading digital reading platform built for kids 12 and under, trusted by millions of children, educators, and families around the world. The Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack will own meaningful pieces of Epic's web application end-to-end, design and ship features across the stack, and mentor junior engineers while ensuring high code quality.
Responsibilities
- Design and ship features end-to-end across the stack—Angular front-end through PHP/Symfony and Go back-end services, against MySQL—taking ownership from spec to production
- Make sound technical decisions on architecture, data modeling, API design, and state management; document trade-offs and align stakeholders before significant choices land in code
- Operate independently on ambiguous problems, breaking down scope, surfacing risks early, and shipping in safe increments
- Partner cross-functionally with product, design, data engineering, infrastructure, and content on features that span team boundaries
- Drive code quality through thorough code reviews, raising standards on testing, readability, and maintainability across both front-end (Angular, RxJS, NgRx) and back-end (PHP/Symfony, Go) codebases
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers—pair on hard problems, give actionable code-review feedback, and help them grow into larger pieces of work
- Improve the developer experience of the codebases you touch—tooling, tests, build times, and observability
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, applying the same review and quality bar to generated code as to anything else, and exercising judgment about where they help and where they don't
- Lead and contribute to technical design reviews, RFCs, and architecture discussions, grounded in data and prototypes
- Participate in production support, lead investigations, write up post-mortems, and follow through on systemic fixes
Skills
- Track record of owning ambiguous, multi-team features end-to-end—defining scope with PM/design, aligning infra/data dependencies, and shipping without an EM driving day-to-day execution
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time shipping production full-stack features
- Strong Angular experience (v13+ preferred), including component architecture, RxJS reactive patterns, and a state-management library such as NgRx
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern front-end fundamentals (HTML, CSS/SCSS, accessibility, performance)
- Strong PHP experience on a modern framework—Symfony preferred, Laravel acceptable—including Doctrine ORM or equivalent
- Proficiency designing schemas, writing performant queries, and reasoning about indexing in a relational database—MySQL preferred
- Experience designing and operating REST (or gRPC) APIs that serve real production traffic
- Experience writing tests at multiple levels—unit, integration, and end-to-end—and a habit of doing so by default
- Comfort with Git, pull-request-based workflows, and modern CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar)
- Strong written and verbal communication—able to write a design doc, run a review, and explain trade-offs to non-engineering partners
- Track record of mentoring more junior engineers and raising the bar through review and pairing
- Fluency in English for daily collaboration and technical documentation
- Working knowledge of Go for back-end services—HTTP handlers, modules, concurrency primitives, the standard library—or demonstrated ability to come up to production proficiency on the job
- Experience leading the design or migration of a service from one language/runtime to another (e.g., PHP → Go) in a production environment
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (GKE) at the application-developer level—building images, debugging running pods, reading logs and metrics
- Experience with cloud platforms—GCP preferred (GCS, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run/GKE), AWS or Azure acceptable
- Experience with server-side rendering (Angular Universal) and the performance/SEO trade-offs it brings
- Experience with i18n / internationalization (multi-region deployments, locale-aware content)
- Experience operating against an observability stack—New Relic, Datadog, or similar—including building dashboards and alerts for code you own
- Familiarity with consumer-product concerns at scale: caching strategies, CDN behavior, image/media pipelines, mobile-web performance
- Interest in or experience with ed-tech, children's media, or content-platform work
- Awareness of children's-privacy compliance frameworks (COPPA, FERPA) and how they shape product and data decisions
Benefits
- Inclusive of bonus
- Flexible for the right skillset
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 Palo Alto, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.getepic.com/.