Senior Data Engineer, Kiddom
$160-180k
+ Equity
1+ day a week in office
Personalised teaching and learning for children
Open for applications
Personalised teaching and learning for children
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$160-180k
+ Equity
1+ day a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower learners and teachers to achieve their full potential by connecting assessments, a digital curriculum, and instruction in one platform.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Do you have a strong understanding of PII compliance and best practices in data handling and storage
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience as a data engineer, and 8+ years of software engineering experience (including data engineering)
- Expertise with RDMS and Data Warehousing, demonstrating ability to design and optimize data pipelines, systems and architectures
- Experience in managed services for data ingestion/processing with hands-on experience working in AWS environments and operational experience with deploying infrastructure on AWS using Terraform
- Expert-level knowledge of SQL and a solid understanding of NoSQL & graph databases (e.g., Cassandra, Neptune)
- Experience with distributed compute platforms and frameworks, such as Kubernetes/ECS, AWS Lambdas, Spark and distributed storage systems
- Expertise with any of data orchestration platforms such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect or similar frameworks
What the job involves
- The Data Architecture team builds and supports Kiddom’s data systems. In addition to improving the core architecture of our curriculum graphs and analytics, they also support other teams in the company and their usage of the Kiddom data platform, with an eye for student data privacy and security
- You will work closely with other departments, including Product, Engineering, and Analytics, to understand and cater to their data needs
- You will also define and document data workflows, pipelines, and transformation processes for clear understanding and knowledge sharing
- Projects include:
- Scalable Data Pipeline Construction:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines to transform raw data into analytics-ready datasets
- Ensure optimal performance, reliability, and efficiency of the data pipelines
- Ability to design and build scalable data pipelines using AWS Data Pipeline, AWS Glue, DBT or similar services
- Optimization and Performance Tuning:
- Monitor and Deploy the data infrastructure for performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations as necessary
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure seamless data integration with high availability
- Tech Stack Mastery:
- Leverage SQL, DBT, Golang, Python, Terraform and AWS tools to enhance our data infrastructure
- Keeping the Kiddom team updated on the latest advancements in AI and data engineering tools and best practices
- Data Storage and Management:
- Knowledge of AWS storage solutions (e.g., S3, DynamoDB) and database services (e.g., RDS, Redshift)
- Data Preprocessing:
- Skills in preprocessing and transforming raw data into a format suitable for machine learning
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 that aims to provide integrated solutions to not only remote teaching but also 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 provide solutions and 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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
- Competitive salary
- 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 & Founder)After an MSc at the University of Illinois, Ahsan spent a year as a Fulton Collective LLC Partner, before co-founding Le Sensor in 2010. They leveraged this entrepreneurial experience to found Kiddom in January 2015, serving since as CEO.
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