Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

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, we are seeking an experienced Full Stack Senior Engineer: someone with track record of building world class web apps, guiding a team in developing with idiomatic, tested, and maintainable code. We are building in React, and assume candidates will either have basic mastery or have applicable experience.

You will...

• Work with the design and product teams to set feature roadmap and release deadlines.
• Be able to lead full stack front end and backend development, build and maintain high standards for work and work with the team to maintain them.
• Guide the team in making intelligent and pragmatic technical trade-offs.
• Design and implement user-facing products.
• Apply deep understanding of web technologies to reason about engineering / design tradeoffs.
• Have the foresight to recognize potential future issues and ensure the team is made aware, discusses, and mitigates the issues before they affect the business

What we look for

• 7+ years of experience developing with front-end web technologies.
• Commitment to mentorship, training and supporting one's teammates.
• Demonstrable experience as an effective technical team lead of full-stack development.
• Vast knowledge of JS/CSS and Golang best practices and common pitfalls.
• Excellent knowledge of modern javascript frameworks and tools (React, Redux, and Webpack a plus but not required.)
• Working knowledge of Golang or C programming
• Comfort working with CSS pre--processors (We use SASS) and strategies for writing maintainable CSS.

Nice to have

• Interest in educational technology.
• Previous experience at a startup.

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.