Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack
epic kidsAkron (OH)
Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack
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epic kidsAkron (OH)
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
About Us:
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. Our mission is to inspire a lifelong love of reading by providing unlimited access to thousands of high-quality books, videos, and educational content through a safe and engaging experience. We combine technology, storytelling, and learning innovation to help every child become a confident reader. At Epic, you'll join a collaborative and fast-paced global team passionate about building meaningful products that make a real impact on children's education and literacy.
About the Role:
The Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack owns features end-to-end across Epic's web application -- Angular front-end, PHP/Symfony and Go services, MySQL -- and helps raise the engineering bar for the team. We hire for engineering strength over experience with any specific stack; strong engineers ramp quickly on ours. This is a fully remote, US-based role working closely with a global engineering team with members in the US and China.
What You'll Do:
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.
What We're Looking For:
Required Qualifications 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
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.
Compensation: 160-210k - inclusive of bonus - flexible for the right skillset
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