Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Focus

🕒 April 7

🏢🏡 New York City – Hybrid

💵 $170k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💻 Frontend Engineer / Web Developer

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Kira

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

📚 Education

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

💰 $15M Series A - Kira on 2023-05

Education • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Kira is an AI-powered educational platform for K–12 schools that acts as an AI co-teacher to streamline lesson planning, grading, assessments, and classroom management. It offers AI tutors and teaching assistants, a browser-based coding environment with K–12 CS curriculum, analytics, rostering, and secure integrations (LTI, OneRoster), emphasizing teacher control, student privacy, and transparency.

📋 Description

• Own and ship polished, end-to-end product features that improve student and teacher experiences • Partner closely with product managers and designers on UX, interaction design, and visual quality • Help shape frontend and full-stack technical direction, translating product goals into pragmatic implementation plans • Improve product quality, performance, accessibility, and maintainability across the frontend codebase • Contribute across the full development lifecycle, including prototyping, testing, rollout, and support • Collaborate with engineers to design APIs and deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience • Strong React and Typescript experience, with ownership of production-grade user-facing features used by hundreds of thousands to millions of users • Experience building modern web applications using TypeScript and React • Strong CSS skills, with experience using systems such as Tailwind, SCSS • Solid backend experience (e.g., Kotlin, Python, Go, Rust, Scala), with willingness to ramp up on Kira’s stack (Kotlin, Python) • Solid full-stack fundamentals, including working with APIs and relational databases (e.g., MySQL) • Experience owning, leading, and shipping complex features with minimal guidance • Familiarity with automated testing and CI/CD practices for reliable frontend delivery • Ability to communicate clearly about technical and product tradeoffs with both technical and non-technical partners • Comfort operating in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment with evolving requirements • (Preferred) Experience integrating and shipping features backed by LLMs or AI APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic)

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity. • Medical, dental, vision and life insurance, including a medical insurance plan with 100% coverage of employee premiums. • Flexible PTO policy and company holidays • Doordash credit for lunch daily