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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 have the opportunity to lead multiple teams of (3-5) talented engineers while driving meaningful, transformative work in the K-12 education space. 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. If you’re excited about leading engineering teams in a mission-driven environment, driving technical excellence, and building systems that truly matter, Kiddom offers an unparalleled opportunity to make a difference.
This role reports to our VP of Engineering Tim Catlin.
This role can be based in NYC or San Francisco and requires 2-3 days in office.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering work experience.
- 5+ years of experience in people management leading multiple teams of 3-5 engineers, including hands-on technical management.
- Ideally experience with: (Golang, Python, Node.js, JS/TypesScript)
- Expertise in running small teams using agile techniques is essential, along with the ability to mentor, delegate, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- You are strong in balancing priorities and making thoughtful decisions to meet immediate technical needs.
- You are able to participate in architecture and product discussions with engineers, product managers, designers, and AI researchers contributing to informed decisions.
- You have a proven track record of shipping quality products on time.
- A customer-centric mindset and will apply that to building out platform services and features.
- You are highly organized and thrive in fast-paced environments with a structured approach to team operations.
- You can provide objective feedback, supporting individual and team growth.
- Growth mindset - you're eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting
- Adaptability, resiliency, and ability to thrive in ambiguity - things can change quickly, and you'll need to help the team evolve
Bonus Points
- Experience with internationalization, accessibility, and web standards in the edtech space.
- Familiarity with AWS, CI/CD tooling, and automated frontend testing.
- Open-source contributions or technical writing/teaching in frontend engineering.
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.
Top Skills
AWS
Ci/Cd Tooling
Css-In-Js
GraphQL
React
Redux
Typescript
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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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