Staff Software Engineer, Kiddom
Platform
$190-225k
+ Meaningful equity
Personalised teaching and learning for children
Open for applications
Personalised teaching and learning for children
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$190-225k
+ Meaningful 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
- 10+ years of software development experience at scale
- 3+ years of experience leading cross-functional projects
- Fluency in Go is a must
- Fluency in at least one of these languages: TypeScript, Javascript, Python
- Experience managing services in AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with Docker containers and Linux virtual machines
- You put the dev in DevOps, bridging applications to infrastructure
- Conscientious of impact, always keeping the end-user in mind
- Enjoy teaching best practices and learning new technologies
- Have a knack for finding simple solutions to big problems, enrolling engineering teams and stakeholders in your vision
- Track record of shipping quality products that scale without drama
- Calm professionalism during production incidents. Share your worst outage stories to learn and level up junior engineers
- Adaptable to changing customer needs and unexpected system behavior
What the job involves
- The Systems Engineering team supports tools and core services that provide a great product experience to our end-users and a great developer experience to our engineering teams
- A typical day might start out looking for trouble and end with project plans and cross-functional collaborations that run a thorny problem to ground
- This role combines technical leadership with strategic impact, shaping Kiddom’s systems to grow each school year
- You’ll work in languages from Go to TypeScript to Python, on technologies from web APIs to graph databases to edge computing and LLMs
- You will have the opportunity to drive technical change across every team
- You will help engineers around you do their best work using tools you select and build
- Your outtie is exceptionally good at debugging null pointer exceptions
- We have remote roles but in certain positions where office attendance is deemed to be essential to the role, offers of employment shall be conditional upon proof of vaccination
Application process
- There is a list of questions as part of the application process. Not filling them out or putting N/A automatically disqualifies you
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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