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Staff Software Engineer, Platform

United States, San Francisco 180000.00 - 200000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted December 09, 2025
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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
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