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# Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack at Epic Kids Inc.

- **Company:** Epic Kids Inc.
- **Location:** India
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/epickids/jobs/7866414003

## 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 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, India-based role, requiring close collaboration with a global engineering team that has members in the US, India 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).

## 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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