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Kiddom provides schools and districts with access to high-quality curricula in Math, ELA, Science, and Social Studies.
The Role
Lead and mentor front-end engineers, focusing on the development of user-facing experiences. Collaborate with Design and Product to ensure technical excellence and scalable features.
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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.
About the role: As a Senior Engineering Manager at Kiddom, you’ll report to the VP of Engineering while leading multiple teams of talented engineers. This role combines technical leadership with strategic impact, allowing you to shape Kiddom’s systems and processes to scale our business. You’ll work with modern technologies, including Python, Golang, Node.js, JS/Typescript, Kubernetes, and AWS, while solving challenging technical problems that directly impact educators, administrators, and students. You will have the ability to motivate and inspire change across the entire engineering organization as we adapt to new technologies and AI capabilities that make us and our users more efficient.
This role can be based in NYC or San Francisco and requires 2-3 days in office.
What You'll Do...
- Build high-performing teams that deliver technical excellence
- Guide architectural discussions to support long-term scalability and performance
- Create strategies to remove obstacles so your team can be successful
- Create process enhancements that improve team efficiency and code quality
- Grow and develop engineers through mentorship and advancement opportunities
- Identify and resolve problems proactively through advanced thinking, partnership, and foresight
What We're Looking For...
- 10+ years of software engineering work experience
- 3+ years of experience in people management
- Experience with modern fullstack languages and frameworks
- Proven experience hiring and building teams
- Ability to balance priorities and make thoughtful decisions
- A customer-centric mindset to build our platform services and features
- You can provide objective feedback, supporting individual and team growth
- Adaptability, resiliency, and ability to thrive in ambiguity
Salary range is dependent on geography, past 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 plans
Equal 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.
Skills Required
- 4+ years managing engineering teams focused on modern JavaScript front end (ideally React/TypeScript)
- 8+ years of professional engineering with significant ownership of interactive web products
- Proven expertise building, deploying, and optimizing large-scale, data-driven web applications
- Strong collaboration skills with Design/Product
- Experience with SPA architectures, performance optimization, browser/dataviz challenges, and security best practices
- Empathetic communicator with a track record for growing and retaining high-caliber engineers
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The Company
What We Do
Kiddom unleashes the full potential of high-quality instructional materials paired with effective tech enhancements and hand-in-hand support to help teachers do what teachers do best, teach with a human touch. For over 10 years, we’ve been combining valuable open educational resources with simple, flexible technology. Our feature-rich learning platform gives teachers time back, so they can do what they do best, teach. Accelerate planning, instructional delivery, assessment, and reporting while using proven-curriculum teaches already know and love.
Why Work With Us
We innovate at the speed of technology. We are introducing new AI features to streamline routine teacher tasks and more equitably serve student needs. We’re dedicated to developing AI enhancements that drastically improve the teacher’s ability to unpack, understand, and implement HQIM with fidelity.
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