Senior Software Engineer (Frontend Focus)

The role

You will own and ship end-to-end product features to improve student and teacher experiences. You will partner with product managers and designers and help shape frontend and full-stack technical direction.

What you will do

• Own and ship polished, end-to-end product features
• Partner closely with product managers and designers on UX, interaction design, and visual quality
• Help shape frontend and full-stack technical direction
• 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

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience
• 8+ 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
• 2+ years experience mentoring and/or managing junior and mid-level engineers
• 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

Nice to have

• 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
• Medical insurance plan with 100% coverage of employee premiums
• Flexible PTO policy and company holidays
• DoorDash credit for lunch daily
• Wellhub Membership: 100% company-paid access to premium gym networks, 60+ wellness apps, and 1:1 coaching sessions
• Dog friendly office

Before you apply

• A subsequent criminal, education, and employment history background check will then be issued

About the company

Kira is a rapidly growing startup backed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, and Primavera. Its mission is to harness transformative AI technologies to make world-class teaching and learning accessible to everyone.