Director of Data Engineering, Kiddom
$180-250k
+ Equity
Creator of Learning Intelligence Technology
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Creator of Learning Intelligence Technology
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-250k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable teachers and learners to achieve their full potential.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering, backend engineering, or distributed systems.4+ years leading or managing high-performing engineering teams
- Passion for attracting and growing top notch talent
- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms in production environments
- Strong expertise in SQL and programming languages such as Python or Go
- Experience with modern cloud data ecosystems (AWS preferred), including services such as: S3, EKS/ECSData warehousing platforms (Snowflake or similar), streaming and real-time data systems
- Deep understanding of data modeling, pipeline orchestration, and analytics architecture
- Experience supporting AI/ML workflows and data products
- Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical depth
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Director of Data Engineering to lead the evolution of Kiddom’s data platform as a foundational layer powering analytics, AI, personalization, and product intelligence across our ecosystem
- As Director of Data Engineering, you will define and execute Kiddom’s data engineering strategy while leading a high-performing team responsible for building scalable, secure, and reliable data systems
- You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, AI/ML, Curriculum, Analytics, and Go-to-Market teams to ensure data enables every major company initiative
- This role blends technical leadership, organizational management, and platform vision. You will shape how educational data flows across Kiddom — from ingestion and modeling to real-time insights and AI-driven features
- Define and execute the long-term vision for Kiddom’s data platform supporting analytics, AI/ML, and product intelligence
- Architect scalable batch and real-time data pipelines powering personalization, reporting, and learning insights
- Establish best practices for data modeling, data quality, lineage, and observability across the organization
- Guide evolution of data infrastructure across cloud-native environments and distributed systems
- Ensure data systems meet performance, scalability, reliability, and compliance requirements as product usage grows
- Partner with AI/ML teams to enable feature stores, experimentation workflows, and model training pipelines
- Support delivery of AI-powered product capabilities through reliable, well-modeled datasets
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering leaders to integrate data seamlessly into user experiences and decision systems
- Build, mentor, and scale a world-class data engineering organization
- Establish clear technical standards, career growth paths, and operational excellence practices
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Provide technical guidance while empowering engineers to lead initiatives
- Work closely with Product, Curriculum, Analytics, Customer Success, and GTM teams to translate business needs into scalable data solutions
- Support company planning through data strategy aligned with customer adoption cycles and business priorities
- Drive alignment between platform engineering, infrastructure, and analytics initiatives
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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