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Founded in 2012, Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments, and structured live interview technology with existing admissions requirements to help showcase the real people behind the application, not just the numbers.

We’re a people-first, customer-obsessed, company where you'll be surrounded by smart and ambitious people. Our holistic admissions solution helps teams make their admissions process more efficient, effective and fair in a way that no other platform can do today. Kira is a Canada-based tech company that operates a distributed, digital-first workplace with access to coworking space in Toronto.

Since summer of 2025, Kira has begun working closely with its recent parent company ETS to help drive greater engagement and value in the admissions process.

At Kira, we are solving complex problems in higher education by building elegant products that are easy to use. We’re a lean, highly collaborative team that takes on big challenges and works quickly and cross-functionally to achieve success for schools and applicants. If you’re an entrepreneurial, startup type, you’re going to love it here.

We are committed to building and supporting talent that reflects our diverse culture.

You will be shipping code used by hundreds of thousands of applicants per year.

As a maturing startup, we’re able to provide a wide range of challenges and interesting projects, as well as giving our employees the opportunity to develop skills in areas that interest them.

If you enjoy building full stack applications from the ground up, leveraging the newest technologies to delight users and executing like an entrepreneur, then Kira Talent is the place for you!

Joining a close-knit team of developers to work on a cloud-based web application using a modern AWS technology stack (ECS, EC2, Python, React, TypeScript, MySQL, PostGres, Docker, GraphQL, Redis, ...)





Taking ownership of full-stack feature delivery, from conception and design to coding and deployment

Collaborating with your team to solve tough technical and business challenges and write great code in the process

Thinking about how to build high-performing, resilient, scalable software with an emphasis on code quality through unit and integration testing

Working cross-team to create tools, alerts, instrumentation and monitoring for the code you write to ensure our applications are up and running smoothly

Growing in your career while contributing to Kira’s success in the fast growing EdTech industry and helping us become innovators in this space

4+ years building web applications in a full stack capacity

- Degree in computer science, software engineering or a related field
- Experience with AWS or cloud technologies
- A deep understanding of MySQL or related querying languages, including writing and optimizing queries
- Strong working knowledge of Python
- Experience with front-end JavaScript libraries (React preferred)
- Hands-on experience working on and supporting a live production environment
- Experience with Django

Kira is a remote-first company, with occasional opportunities for in-person events.

Applications are being considered from across Canada, with flexible schedules alongside core working hours (10am - 3pm ET).

Regular TGIF hang-out - We do this virtually during the remote work period!

Four (4) weeks of vacation annually - plus office shut-down the week between Christmas and New Year’s

A strong benefits package, including a health spending account, RRSP matching

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.

Disability-related accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in our hiring process. Mid-Senior level

Full-time

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📌 FULL TIME FULL STACK DEVELOPER (REMOTE) (Ottawa)
🏢 Kira Talent
📍 Ottawa