Senior Software Engineer, Core Services
About Kiddom
Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.
The Systems Engineering and Core Services team supports the common APIs, services, data stores, and dev tools 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 champion. Your outtie is exceptionally good at debugging null pointer exceptions.
Note: There is a list of questions as part of the application process. Not filling them out or putting N/A automatically disqualifies you.
Qualifications
Qualities
What Kiddom offers
At Kiddom, we list a compensation range to provide transparency, but it’s not set in stone. If we find an exceptional candidate with outstanding experience and skills, we’re more than willing to go beyond the listed range. We believe in recognizing and rewarding top talent—so if you’re a great fit, let’s talk!
Additional Information
Salary range is dependent on geographic location, prior experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.
What we offer
Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day of employment:
* Competitive salary
* Meaningful equity
* Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
* One Medical membership
(in participating locations)* Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval).
Average use 4 weeks off per year.* 10 paid sick days per year
(pro rated depending on start date)* Paid holidays
* Paid bereavement leave
* Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents.
Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.*
Commuter and FSA plansEqual Employment Opportunity Policy
Kiddom is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, pregnancy, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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