Director of Engineering, Kiddom
+ Meaningful equity
Creator of Learning Intelligence Technology
Open for applications
Creator of Learning Intelligence Technology
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Meaningful equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable teachers and learners to achieve their full potential.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years leading and scaling teams in a SaaS environment
- Has managed multiple teams working on a range of products
- Strong background in building and operating distributed systems and cloud-native platforms
- Experience delivering products that leverage AI/ML (for example, recommendations, automation, analytics) or working closely with data science/ML teams
- Familiarity with modern data pipelines, security best practices, and observability
- Comfortable diving into technical discussions and guiding teams on trade-offs, even if you are not writing code daily
- Be able to be ‘in the weeds’ with the engineers driving technical decisions
What the job involves
- Kiddom is seeking a hands-on Director of Engineering to lead key parts of our engineering organization and help bring our AI-first product vision to life
- Reporting to the VP Engineering, this leader will be responsible for managing multiple engineering teams, driving delivery excellence, and evolving our platform to support district-scale impact
- You will translate the company’s technical strategy into execution: building high-performing teams, maturing our architecture and infrastructure, and partnering closely with Product, Data, AI and Curriculum to ship AI-powered features that teachers and students love
- Own delivery for a portfolio of product and platform areas, ensuring your teams ship high-quality software on time
- Help define and drive adoption of engineering best practices
- Contribute to technical decision-making on architecture, frameworks, and key platform investments
- Lead, coach, and grow engineering managers and senior engineers across backend, frontend, DevOps, data, and AI-adjacent teams
- Implement and refine processes for planning, estimation, documentation, and cross-team collaboration
- Partner with the engineering leadership on career ladders, performance management, and succession planning within engineering
- Work with Product, Data, and Curriculum teams to deliver AI-powered features that improve personalization, grading, insights, and curriculum recommendations
- Help teams integrate AI capabilities into existing workflows in ways that are intuitive, reliable, and impactful for educators and students
- Partner with platform and SRE teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, observability, and cloud cost efficiency
- Work with data engineering to design and maintain scalable, well-modeled data pipelines that power AI and analytics features
- Support integration of real-time and batch data sources into the product in ways that are secure, privacy-preserving, and aligned with education data regulations
- Partner with Product and GTM leaders to prioritize work based on customer impact, state adoption cycles, and business goals
- Collaborate with Customer Success and Support to understand field feedback and translate it into backlog items and improvements
- Help GTM teams with procurement processes and procedures, including privacy and security guidelines as well as RFO proposals
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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