Kiddom
Staff Software Engineer, Backend
San Francisco · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 40 days ago
TypeScriptGoBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewSQLNoSQLPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerTerraformProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- About Kiddom Kiddom is transforming K-12 education by bringing high-quality curriculum, instructional tools, and student analytics together in one coherent system.
- With Kiddom, educators spend less time managing administrative burden and more time delivering meaningful student instruction.
- The ideal candidate has extensive experience in backend technologies, and system architecture, along with a passion for solving complex problems for our users and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and databases.
- Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality features.
- Optimize applications for performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Strong knowledge of design patterns and software engineering best practices
Requirements
- Proficiency in working with databases (SQL & NoSQL) such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis.
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
Nice to have
- Experience in Edtech industry
- Familiarity with Golang, Typescript
- Experience with AWS Lambda, Terraform
Compensation
- Average use 4 weeks off per year.
- 10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval).
- Paid bereavement leave
- Paid family leave after birth/adoption.
- Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.
- Commuter and FSA plans
- medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
- Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day of employment:
- Meaningful equity
- One Medical membership (in participating locations)
Company info
- Work with our customers to troubleshoot issues and bugs and also help with Kiddom onboarding.
Equal opportunity
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- nd 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,
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