Edkey is a company seeking an entry-level Full Stack Engineer to support a confidential client in building AI agents and consumer-facing features. The role involves shipping end-to-end features across the frontend and backend while learning distributed systems concepts in a small, high-trust engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship complete features end-to-end using modern web stacks (React, TypeScript, Node.js)
- Contribute across the full stack with a leaning toward backend and distributed systems as you grow
- Design and implement APIs (REST or GraphQL) and integrate third-party services, including LLM APIs where applicable
- Implement reliable background processing, queuing, and caching patterns to improve performance and scalability
- Own your work from specification through testing, deployment, and monitoring
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and other engineers in a fast-paced startup environment
- Continuously learn, iterate, and improve code quality, testing, and system reliability
Skills
- 0–2 years of professional software engineering experience (entry-level / early-career)
- Hands-on experience or personal projects using React, TypeScript, and Node.js
- Proven ability to build side projects, open-source contributions, or coursework demonstrating practical coding experience
- Strong problem-solving skills, curiosity, and a bias toward shipping
- Excellent communication and a collaborative mindset
- Familiarity with GraphQL and API design
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts (queuing, caching, background workers)
- Any experience calling LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) or integrating LLM-based features
- Prior experience at a high-growth startup or top CS programs/projects
Benefits
- Potential equity participation may be offered.
- Typical benefits include standard health, paid time off, and other startup perks.
Company Overview
- Edkey is an AI-powered education technology company building the intelligence layer between learning and career outcomes. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Bay Area , California , US, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://careertakes.edkey.com.