Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack
Epic
IndiaPosted 2 months ago
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Key highlights
- Required experience: 5+ years of professional software engineering
- Education required: Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- Fully remote, India-based role
- Primary stack: Angular, PHP/Symfony, Go, MySQL
- Global engineering team collaboration across the US, India, and China
- Originally posted on Himalayas
Role overview
The Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack role at Epic Kids owns features end-to-end across Epic's web application — Angular front-end, PHP/Symfony and Go services, and MySQL — and helps raise the engineering bar for the team. The company hires for engineering strength over experience with any specific stack, expecting strong engineers to ramp quickly. 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- 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 (the team uses 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.
Nice to have
- Direct experience with the team's 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).
Additional details
- 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.
- Epic Kids' 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.
- Epic Kids combines technology, storytelling, and learning innovation to help every child become a confident reader.
- The team is collaborative and fast-paced, and is passionate about building meaningful products that make a real impact on children's education and literacy.
- Epic hires for engineering strength over experience with any specific stack; strong engineers ramp quickly on theirs.
- The role is fully remote and India-based.
- Close collaboration is required with a global engineering team that has members in the US, India, and China.
- Originally posted on Himalayas.