Junior Software Engineer, Full-Stack
About the role
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.
Position Summary
The Junior Software Engineer, Full-Stack is an entry-level role designed for recent graduates beginning their professional engineering careers. You will write code across our web stack—front-end in Angular/TypeScript, back-end in PHP and Go—on well-scoped tasks under the close guidance of senior engineers. Our back-end is multi-language: PHP/Symfony powers our long-standing application code, and we are actively investing in Go for newer services—so a willingness to learn both, and to grow with the direction the codebase is moving, matters. The first year is about learning: our codebase, our review and release process, how features move from idea to production, and the fundamentals of writing software that other engineers can trust. You will pair with senior teammates, take part in code reviews as both author and reviewer, and grow into larger pieces of work as your skills develop.
This is a fully remote, US-based role working closely with a global, bilingual (English–Chinese) engineering team. New and recent graduates are encouraged to apply.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement well-scoped front-end features and UI changes in Angular (TypeScript, SCSS) under the guidance of senior engineers
- Implement well-scoped back-end endpoints and changes against MySQL, working in PHP (Symfony + Doctrine ORM) on existing application code and in Go on newer services as the team's Go footprint expands
- Investigate and fix bugs across the stack—reproduce the issue, identify the cause with help when needed, and ship the fix
- Write unit tests for the code you ship and keep tests passing on the areas you touch
- Participate in code reviews as both author and reviewer