Senior Backend Engineer, Kiddom
Tooling
$160-200k
Offers equity
Personalised teaching and learning for children
Be an early applicant
Personalised teaching and learning for children
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-200k
Offers equity
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
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field
- 6+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining backend systems at scale
- Deep expertise in Python, including experience building APIs and asynchronous processing systems
- Familiarity with GoLang, with an interest in contributing to Go-based services and tooling
- Strong proficiency with both relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis)
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture
- Production experience on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including Docker, Kubernetes, and IaC (Terraform, etc.)
- Solid understanding of design patterns, testing, and backend performance tuning
- Strong debugging and system observability skills
- Collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively with product managers, frontend teams, and other stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills — written, verbal, and architectural documentation
- Desire to mentor and elevate team members’ technical skills
- Passion for improving K–12 education and building systems that serve teachers, students, and educational equity
What the job involves
- Kiddom’s Tooling team builds and maintains the core systems that empower all engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and efficient software. As a Senior Backend Engineer on this team, you’ll focus on developing backend services, automation frameworks, and internal developer tools that improve the velocity and reliability of our entire platform
- You’ll play a key role in shaping how Kiddom engineers build, deploy, and observe systems at scale — with an emphasis on clean, maintainable, and testable code written primarily in Python, and secondary exposure to GoLang
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and automation tooling primarily in Python, with opportunities to contribute to GoLang-based systems
- Develop and maintain internal APIs, asynchronous task frameworks, and services that improve developer productivity and platform reliability
- Collaborate cross-functionally with other engineering teams to understand their needs and build internal systems that streamline workflows
- Optimize and maintain integrations with internal and external systems, including CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and developer infrastructure
- Own projects end-to-end — from system design and architecture to implementation, deployment, and monitoring
- Drive engineering excellence through thoughtful code reviews, automated testing, and performance optimization
- Champion modern backend practices — including observability, scalability, and fault tolerance — within the Tooling ecosystem
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to shaping the future of Kiddom’s backend and infrastructure practices
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.
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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
- 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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