Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack
Epic Kids Inc.
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
Responsibilities
- Design and ship end-to-end full-stack features from specification through production.
- Make and document architecture, data-modeling, and API-design decisions.
- Improve code quality through code reviews and testing across front-end and back-end systems.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code review and pairing.
- Lead technical design reviews, RFCs, and architecture discussions.
- Use AI-assisted development tools while maintaining engineering quality standards.
- Support production systems through investigations, post-mortems, and systemic fixes.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including autonomously owning complex, cross-team work.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong front-end engineering skills with a modern component framework, plus TypeScript or JavaScript and UI fundamentals.
- Strong back-end engineering skills in a modern server-side language.
- Relational database experience with data modeling, performant queries, and indexing.
- Experience designing and operating production REST or gRPC APIs.
- Comfort with Git, pull-request workflows, and CI/CD.
- Preferred: experience with Angular, PHP/Symfony, Go, MySQL, production service migrations, Tera, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, observability tools, or children's-privacy compliance frameworks.
Skills mentioned
About Epic Kids Inc.
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. Epic fuels curiosity, reading confidence, and a lifelong love of learning in a fun, safe, and kid-friendly environment. With more than 40,000 popular books, audiobooks, and videos from over 250 top publishers—including HarperCollins, Macmillan, National Geographic Kids, Sesame Street, and Smithsonian—Epic offers access to the stories kids love and the educational content teachers trust. Epic is free for educators and used in more than 2 million classrooms nationwide. Epic was founded by tech entrepreneur Suren Markosian and media executive Kevin Donahue, with backing from top-tier investors and leaders in children’s publishing. In 2025, Epic joined the TAL Education Group, a global education leader with North American headquarters in San Jose. To learn more, visit getepic.com or follow Epic! on Facebook, Instagram, and X.