Senior Data Engineer, Kiddom
$150-200k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Creator of Learning Intelligence Technology
Open for applications
Creator of Learning Intelligence Technology
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$150-200k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable teachers and learners to achieve their full potential.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of data engineering experience with strong Python skills — you’ve written parsers, validators, and transformation scripts for real-world messy data
- Schema design instincts — you think carefully about how data should be structured for downstream use, not just how to move it
- Data quality mindset — you build validation and completeness checks in from the start, not as an afterthought
- Cross-functional collaborator — comfortable working with non-engineers to define requirements and translate domain knowledge into data structures
- Provisioning and monitoring of infrastructure for data systems, familiarity with IaC tools such as Terraform and Terragrunt
- The data system operates, ECS, EKS clusters, provision lambdas and S3 buckets
Desirable
- Background in education, curriculum design, or ed-tech — understanding how instructional content is authored and structured is a genuine differentiator
- Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector) or embedding pipeline tooling
- Familiarity with agentic AI patterns or Model Context Protocol (MCP)
What the job involves
- Kiddom’s Content & AI Systems team is building the data layer that powers the next generation of AI-assisted curriculum authoring and content delivery
- This role sits at the intersection of data engineering and content systems — owning the pipelines, schemas, and validation frameworks that turn raw curriculum content into structured, AI-ready data products
- This is not a traditional data engineering role. Curriculum content is messy, inconsistent, and deeply domain-specific
- You will work closely with Instructional Designers, AI engineers, and the Content Agents team to define data requirements, design schemas, and build the infrastructure that makes AI-powered authoring workflows possible
- Design and own the schema and data models representing Kiddom’s curriculum content (lessons, activities, standards alignments) for downstream use
- Build ingestion pipelines that process content from varied, inconsistent source formats — XML, JSON, PDF-derived, and API-delivered
- Develop Python-based parsers, transformers, and validation scripts that enforce schema conformance and content quality at scale
- Collaborate directly with Instructional Designers and product teams to translate content authoring workflows into data engineering requirements
- Build and maintain embedding and vector database pipelines that feed Kiddom’s AI-powered content features as they scale
- Work in Git-based workflows — treating data artifacts with the same rigor as software: versioned, reviewed, and documented
Our take
Digital education has become an increasing reality in recent years. Whilst services such as Zoom have provided platforms for remote teaching, the minimal functionality of such services has outlined the lack of digital engagement tools that classrooms require.
Kiddom develops a collaborative learning platform for K-12 schooling, with integrated solutions for remote teaching, in-person school and homework assignments. The platform allows teachers to assign tasks and to collaborate with students on them, whilst the software gathers data to provide insights on student engagement and performance.
The startup currently provides its services to individual teachers for free, but solutions for inter-institutional curriculums come at an annual subscription fee. Kiddom’s approach aims to fill the gap between remote and in-school teaching, at the same time as integrating student analytics to optimize and personalize the way students are educated.
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Insights
27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2021
$35m
SERIES C
Mar 2018
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $56.5m
Company benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Remote friendly culture with budget to make sure you can work comfortably from home or office
- Health benefits: medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance
- Flexible vacation policy
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ahsan Rizvi
(CEO & Co-Founder)Spent a year as a Fulton Collective Partner, before co-founding Le Sensor in 2010. They leveraged this entrepreneurial experience to found Kiddom in January 2015.
Abbas Manjee
(Chief Academic Officer & Co-Founder)Previoulsy Founding Math Teacher and Department Leader at ROADS Charter High Schools and at the NYC Department of Education. Was also an Investment Banking Analyst at Merrill Lynch for 2 years.
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