Senior Software Engineer, Kiddom

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years professional software engineering experience
• Experience with Java, or Python, Go, Clojure in a production environment
• Experience designing and building REST APIs
• Exposure to authorization technologies (OAuth)
• Experience with continuous integration and automation tools and processes
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and software engineering best practices
• Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
• Strong acumen or exposure to DevOps or SRE methodologies
• Keen sense for SecOps
• Functional experience using internal tools: javascript, golang, and python
• Prior success scaling infrastructure at a rapid growth saas startup
• Strong empathy for educators and students
• Passion for improving education equity

Desirable

• The InfraOps team’s primary goal is to enable and empower Kiddom’s engineering by building a scalable and sustainable platform that engineering can rely on to meet our company KPIs
• This is a rare opportunity to join a small, highly skilled team as we build out critical infrastructure for a company that is starting to scale from series C to D
• Take the opportunity to have real agency in your work both large and small
• Leave the feature factory and come to a place where your scope is determined by your abilities and passion
• Evangelizing and fostering a healthy DevOps culture here at Kiddom, working with teams to establish best practices and help guide new and existing services
• Practicing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) wherever possible, giving us the confidence in repeatable processes that can be automated
• Grow our DevOps efforts from small scale to large scale multi-region
• Share ownership of the entire infrastructure architecture
• Aim for high availability, high resiliency
• Support the engineering team with tools to evaluate the performance of their code in production environments, speed up CI/CD pipeline, & feature verification
• Support the engineering team with tools to speed up CI/CD pipeline, feature verification
• Design and build a scalable, generalized framework for third-party API integrations
• Leverage existing infrastructure and components to build RESTful web services
• Build APIs and robust testing environments for internal and external developers
• Bring an attention to detail - what we do affects people’s educational opportunities and we have to be mindful of that