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Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Full-time

Kiddom

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.

To tackle this challenge, Kiddom is looking for a Backend Engineer who will embody forward-thinking best practices and bring a positive attitude to work with our team and strive for the betterment of our children's education and the future of our society.  

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You will...
  • Design and build a scalable, generalized framework for third-party API integrations
  • Leverage existing infrastructure and components to build RESTful web services
  • Build APIs and robust testing environments for internal and external developers
  • Bring an attention to detail - what we do affects people’s educational opportunities and we have to be mindful of that
  • Craft delightful user experiences
  • Own the product - we love people who pick up things and run with them

What we look for
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field
  • 5+ years professional software engineering experience
  • Experience designing and building REST APIs
  • Exposure to authorization technologies (OAuth)
  • Experience with continuous integration and automation tools and processes
  • Strong knowledge of design patterns and software engineering best practices
  • You've been through the planning, launching and refactoring phases of code you wrote
  • Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
  • Ability to work as part of a collaborative team in a fast-paced environment
  • Motivated and responsible individual who strives to exceed expectations
  • Sincere interest in working at a startup and scaling with the company as we grow

Nice to have
  • Experience with educational technologies
  • Experience or interest in education
  • Experience working at a startup
  • Experience with React/Redux
  • Experience with Go(lang)
  • Experience with Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and AWS (EC2, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, Lambda)
  • Experience with Terraform

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Potential range: 100k-225k

Salary range is dependent on geography, past experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.

What we offer

We are a passionate, collaborative team focused on building transformative education technology and making a measurable impact in K-12 education.

We strive to create an inclusive, positive team culture where everyone is respected and valued for everything they bring to Kiddom, not just what they produce.

Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day:

-Competitive salary

-Meaningful equity

-Health benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance

-10 paid sick days per year

-Unlimited vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.

-Paid family leave after birth/adoption of caretakers and minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.

COVID Vaccination Policy

Kiddom policy requires employees to be vaccinated before they visit an office or attend company events..

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.

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