Senior Software Engineer, Core Services
Company: Kiddom
Location: New York City
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
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 6 years of software development experience at scale.
3 years of experience leading cross-functional projects. Fluency in
Go is a must plus at least one of TypeScript, Javascript, Python.
Experience managing services in AWS or other cloud platforms.
Experience with Docker containers and Linux virtual machines. You
put the dev in DevOps, bridging applications to infrastructure.
Qualities Conscientious of impact, always keeping the end-user in
mind. Enjoy teaching best practices and learning new technologies.
Have a knack for finding simple solutions to big problems,
enrolling engineering teams and stakeholders in your vision. Track
record of shipping quality products that scale without drama. Calm
professionalism during production incidents. Share your worst
outage stories to learn and level up junior engineers. Adaptable to
changing customer needs and unexpected system behavior. What Kiddom
offers The opportunity to make a measurable impact in K-12
education Competitive salary and equity in a hyper-growth,
mission-driven organization Full health benefits: medical, dental,
and vision Flexible vacation policy 401k An inclusive, positive
team culture A passionate, collaborative team obsessed with
building transformative education technology $150,000 - $180,000 a
year 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!
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 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.
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