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Kiddom

Location:
United States, San Francisco ▼
New York

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

180000.00 - 200000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

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.

Job Responsibility:

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

Requirements:

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

Nice to have:

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

What we offer:

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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 09, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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