6 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and ship polished end-to-end product features that improve student and teacher experiences.
- Partner with product managers and designers on UX, interaction design, and visual quality.
- Shape frontend and full-stack technical direction and translate product goals into implementation plans.
- Improve frontend product quality, performance, accessibility, and maintainability.
- Contribute across prototyping, testing, rollout, and support.
- Collaborate with engineers to design APIs and deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions.
- Mentor and/or manage junior and mid-level engineers and foster high-quality delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience.
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong React and TypeScript experience building production-grade, user-facing features used by hundreds of thousands to millions of users.
- Modern web application development experience with TypeScript and React, plus strong CSS skills using systems such as Tailwind and SCSS.
- Backend experience with technologies such as Kotlin, Python, Go, Rust, or Scala, with willingness to learn Kira’s Kotlin and Python stack.
- Full-stack fundamentals, including APIs and relational databases such as MySQL.
- Experience owning, leading, and shipping complex features with minimal guidance.
- At least 2 years of experience mentoring or managing junior and mid-level engineers.
- Familiarity with automated testing and CI/CD practices for frontend delivery.
- Ability to communicate technical and product tradeoffs to technical and non-technical partners.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, early-stage startup with evolving requirements.
- Experience integrating and shipping features backed by LLMs or AI APIs such as OpenAI or Anthropic is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time role requiring flexibility with work hours and availability outside regular business hours.
- Employees work in person four days per week from the San Francisco or New York City office.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, including 100% coverage of employee medical premiums.
- Flexible PTO and company holidays.
- Daily DoorDash lunch credit.
- Equity is offered.
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About Kira
Kira is the first and only fully interactive, end-to-end AI operating system that replaces the entire K–12 teaching and learning tech stack. We unite curriculum, lesson planning, grading, feedback, tutoring, translation, analytics, and student support in one simple system built for K–12 education. Unlike other AI assistants, Kira does not sit on top of classroom tools. It replaces them with something better.