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title: 'Senior iOS Engineer at Epic Kids Inc.'
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# Senior iOS Engineer at Epic Kids Inc.

- **Company:** Epic Kids Inc.
- **Location:** India
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/epickids/jobs/8013195003

## Job description

## 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 iOS Engineer owns Epic's native iOS app -- the primary way our readers open a book on iPhone and iPad. You work independently on a large, established Swift and Objective-C codebase, own the reading experience end-to-end, and partner with our Android, backend, and web teams.

This is a role based in India, working closely with Epic's US engineering team and the wider global team.

## What You'll Do

- Own and evolve Epic's native iOS app across iPhone and iPad -- a large, established Swift and Objective-C codebase
- Own the reading experience -- the in-house book renderer and audio-text sync (narration aligned to word-level highlighting)
- Own offline reading, in-app purchases, and the App Store release pipeline
- Drive the app's performance, stability, and quality
- Partner with Epic's Android engineer and the backend and web teams on shared features
- Grow into a cross-platform mobile engineer over time, ramping into Android/Kotlin to contribute across both apps

## What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

- 5+ years building and shipping native iOS apps to the App Store
- Strong Swift and UIKit, and comfort working across a mixed Swift and Objective-C codebase
- Proven depth in custom UI/text rendering and/or real-time media-audio synchronization (not only stock controls)
- Solid across the iOS app lifecycle -- concurrency and thread-safety, local persistence, in-app purchase, and owning a release pipeline (CI, code signing, TestFlight/App Store)
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

## Preferred Skills

- Familiarity with SwiftUI and Swift Concurrency (async/await)
- Familiarity with AVCadence for audio-text sync
- Experience with encrypted media playback
- Accessibility on a consumer or kids' product -- VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, WCAG
- Interest in cross-platform mobile, and some Android / Kotlin awareness

Why Join Epic?

At Epic, you'll have the opportunity to build products that inspire millions of kids to discover the joy of reading. You'll work alongside talented teammates across the globe, solve meaningful technical challenges, and help shape the future of digital learning for children.

## About Epic Kids Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Epic is the leading digital reading platform for kids aged 12 and under, offering a safe, ad-free library of over 40,000 books, audiobooks, and videos.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of TAL Education Group; previously acquired by BYJU’S in 2021)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Suren Markosian, Kevin Donahue

## Core Business
- Primary industry: E‑learning / Children’s Digital Publishing
- Target customers: B2C (parents and families) and B2B (K–12 educators and schools)
- Mission: “Unlock the potential of every child by making reading something kids want to do — fun, safe, and accessible for all.”

## Products & Services
- **Epic! App (iOS, Android, Web)**: A subscription‑based digital library featuring 40,000+ books, audiobooks, and learning videos from 250+ publishers including HarperCollins, Macmillan, National Geographic Kids, and Sesame Street. Offers personalized recommendations, reading rewards, and educator dashboards.
- **Epic School**: Free version for teachers, used in over 2 million classrooms. Includes tools for assigning books, tracking reading progress, and differentiating instruction.
- **Epic Originals**: Proprietary content created by the Epic team; Epic Originals have been read over 400 million times.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by BYJU’S in 2021 for ~$500 M; now part of TAL Education Group since 2025)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $32 M (latest available); total funding of $51.45 M (Seed through Series D)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Reach Capital (led Series C), with participation from 10+ investors including top children’s publishing executives. Key publisher partners: HarperCollins, Macmillan, Sesame Street, Smithsonian.
- **Growth Signals**: Reached 50+ million children worldwide; 49.6% headcount growth year-over-year (68 employees); over 1 billion books read annually on the platform; 90% of educators would recommend Epic to colleagues.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched safety & trust**: Ad‑free, COPPA‑compliant, and curated by literacy experts — a key differentiator for both parents and schools.
- **Exclusive content & partnerships**: Deep relationships with 250+ publishers and a growing library of Epic Originals that can’t be found elsewhere.
- **Educator‑first model**: Epic School is free for teachers, driving adoption in classrooms and creating a natural B2C funnel through family sharing.
- **Scale**: Used in over 2 M classrooms, giving Epic a massive distribution advantage in the K‑12 edtech space.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding the Epic Originals pipeline and deepening publisher relationships to keep content fresh and exclusive.
- Growing international reach and supporting multilingual literacy (currently operates in 6 countries).
- Leveraging the resources of TAL Education Group to accelerate product development and enter new markets, especially in Asia.
- Enhancing AI‑powered recommendations and reading‑level tracking to improve personalized learning outcomes.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven culture**: Employees are united by a belief that reading unlocks every child’s potential. The company reports 95% of parents say Epic improved their child’s reading skills.
- **Work environment**: Remote‑first with co‑working hubs in San Jose, Redwood City, and Chino, CA. Many roles are listed as “Remote” or “Hybrid,” offering flexibility.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapid headcount expansion (+49.6% YoY) and backing from a global education leader (TAL) signal strong investment in talent.
- **Engineering culture**: Teams work on full‑stack, infrastructure, and content tools to support a platform serving millions of daily users. Stack includes cloud‑native technologies (Kubernetes, AWS).
- **Employee ratings**: 3.6/5 on LinkedIn (54 reviews) with work‑life balance scored at 4.0 and culture at 4.0. Notable perks include a focus on impact rather than bureaucracy.

## Sources
1. [Epic Careers Page](https://www.getepic.com/careers)
2. [Epic About Us](https://www.getepic.com/about)
3. [Built In Company Profile: Epic for Kids](https://builtin.com/company/epic-kids)
4. [LinkedIn Company Page: Epic for Kids](https://www.linkedin.com/company/epic4kids)

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