Kiddom seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical projects across teams using Go, TypeScript, and Python, while enhancing systems and developer experience.
About Kiddom
Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.
The Systems Engineering team supports tools and core services that provide a great product experience to our end-users and a great developer experience to our engineering teams. A typical day might start out looking for trouble and end with project plans and cross-functional collaborations that run a thorny problem to ground.
This role combines technical leadership with strategic impact, shaping Kiddom’s systems to grow each school year. You’ll work in languages from Go to TypeScript to Python, on technologies from web APIs to graph databases to edge computing and LLMs. You will have the opportunity to drive technical change across every team. You will help engineers around you do their best work using tools you select and build. Your outtie is exceptionally good at debugging null pointer exceptions.
Note: There is a list of questions as part of the application process. Not filling them out or putting N/A automatically disqualifies you.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of software development experience at scale.
- 3+ years of experience leading cross-functional projects.
- Fluency in Go is a must.
- Fluency in at least one of these languages: TypeScript, Javascript, Python.
- Experience managing services in AWS or other cloud platforms.
- Experience with Docker containers and Linux virtual machines.
- You put the dev in DevOps, bridging applications to infrastructure.
Qualities
- Conscientious of impact, always keeping the end-user in mind.
- Enjoy teaching best practices and learning new technologies.
- Have a knack for finding simple solutions to big problems, enrolling engineering teams and stakeholders in your vision.
- Track record of shipping quality products that scale without drama.
- Calm professionalism during production incidents. Share your worst outage stories to learn and level up junior engineers.
- Adaptable to changing customer needs and unexpected system behavior.
Salary range is dependent on geographic location, prior experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.
What we offer
Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day of employment:
* Competitive salary
* Meaningful equity
* Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
* One Medical membership (in participating locations)
* Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.
* 10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)
* Paid holidays
* Paid bereavement leave
* Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.
* Commuter and FSA plans
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Kiddom is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, pregnancy, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Top Skills
AWS
Docker
Go
JavaScript
Linux
Python
Typescript
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