Talent.com
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Senior Software Engineer, BackendKiddom • San Francisco, CA, US
Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Kiddom • San Francisco, CA, US
[job_card.30_days_ago]
[job_preview.job_type]
  • [job_card.full_time]
  • [job_card.permanent]
[job_card.job_description]

Job Description

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.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our growing team and help build the next generation of scalable backend services. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance systems that power our applications.

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. The individual selected for this role will have a passion for education, the ability to empathize with teachers, strong product acumen, and a commitment to Kiddom’s mission and vision.

You will...

  • Design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and databases.
  • Ensure the scalability, security, and performance of backend systems.
  • Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality features.
  • Optimize applications for performance, reliability, and scalability.
  • Conduct code reviews and provide mentorship to junior engineers.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, ensuring system uptime and reliability.
  • Work with our customers to troubleshoot issues and bugs and also help with Kiddom onboarding.

What we’re looking for...

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field
  • 6+ years professional software engineering experience
  • Experience scaling integration systems
  • 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.
  • 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 in Edtech industry
  • Familiarity with Golang, Typescript
  • Experience with AWS Lambda, Terraform
  • 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
  • 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.

    [job_alerts.create_a_job]

    Senior Software Engineer Backend • San Francisco, CA, US

    [internal_linking.similar_jobs]
    Senior Software Engineer - Backend

    Senior Software Engineer - Backend

    Nextdoor • San Francisco, CA, US
    [job_card.full_time]
    Nextdoor (NYSE : NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network.Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 340,000 neighborhoo...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_30] • [promoted]
    Senior Software Engineer, Backend

    Senior Software Engineer, Backend

    Chef Robotics • San Francisco, CA, US
    [job_card.full_time]
    Chef Robotics is on a mission to accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the physical world.As the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT has shown, AI has the potential to drive immense change.However...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_30] • [promoted]
    Senior Software Engineer | Backend

    Senior Software Engineer | Backend

    Formal group • San Francisco, CA, United States
    [job_card.full_time]
    Formal is data security platform designed to help teams understand and control their data on autopilot.We're building a modern protocol-aware reverse-proxy for datastores and APIs that helps organi...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_variable_days] • [promoted]
    Senior Software Engineer - Backend

    Senior Software Engineer - Backend

    jobr.pro • San Francisco, CA, United States
    [job_card.full_time]
    HappyRobot is the AI-native operating system for the real economy—a system that closes the circuit between intelligence and action. By combining real-time truth, specialized AI workers, and an orche...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_1_hour] • [promoted] • [new]
    Senior Software Engineer – Backend

    Senior Software Engineer – Backend

    Sigma • San Francisco, CA, United States
    [job_card.full_time]
    Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technolo...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_30] • [promoted]
    Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform

    Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform

    harvey.ai • San Francisco, CA, United States
    [job_card.full_time]
    At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate — not incrementally, but end-to-end.By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain experti...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_variable_days] • [promoted]
    Staff Software Engineer, Database Systems

    Staff Software Engineer, Database Systems

    Zilliz • Redwood City, CA, US
    [job_card.full_time]
    Zilliz is a fast-growing startup developing the industry’s leading vector database company for enterprise-grade AI.Founded by the engineers behind Milvus, the world’s most pop...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_30] • [promoted]
    Senior Software Engineer - Backend

    Senior Software Engineer - Backend

    Plaid • San Francisco, CA, US
    [job_card.full_time]
    We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years.We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experien...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_30] • [promoted]
    Senior Software Engineer - Backend

    Senior Software Engineer - Backend

    Cloudflare, Inc. • San Francisco, CA, United States
    [job_card.full_time]
    At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet.Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for cust...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_1_day] • [promoted]
    Senior Software Engineer - Backend | Product

    Senior Software Engineer - Backend | Product

    Unify • San Francisco, CA, United States
    [job_card.full_time]
    Unify was founded January 17th, 2023 by Austin Hughes and Connor Heggie.Connor was a machine learning research engineer at. The rest of our team comes from companies like.Our mission is to build the...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_variable_days] • [promoted]
    Senior Backend Software Engineer, Observability & Evals Platform (LangSmith)

    Senior Backend Software Engineer, Observability & Evals Platform (LangSmith)

    LangChain • San Francisco, CA, United States
    [job_card.full_time]
    At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous.We provide the agent engineering platform and open source frameworks developers need to ship reliable agents fast.Our open source ...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_30] • [promoted]
    Senior Software Engineer, Backend

    Senior Software Engineer, Backend

    Cloudflare • San Francisco, CA, United States
    [job_card.full_time]
    Senior Software Engineer – Backend.At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet.Today the company runs one of the worlds largest networks that powers millions of websites and ...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_30] • [promoted]
    Senior Firmware EngineerSoftware Engineering • Berkeley, CA • Full time • On-site

    Senior Firmware EngineerSoftware Engineering • Berkeley, CA • Full time • On-site

    Form Energy • Berkeley, CA, United States
    [job_card.full_time]
    Are you ready to build America's energy future? Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company.We're revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_30] • [promoted]
    Senior Software Engineer- Backend

    Senior Software Engineer- Backend

    Medium • San Francisco, CA, United States
    [job_card.full_time]
    At Flow, we’re reimagining what it means to live, work, and connect.More than just a real estate company, Flow is a brand, a technology platform, and an operations ecosystem spanning condominiums, ...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_variable_days] • [promoted]
    Senior Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

    Senior Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

    Rigetti Computing • Berkeley, CA, US
    [job_card.full_time]
    Rigetti Computing is building the world’s most powerful computers to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.We believe this technology will fundamentally change the world for the bette...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_30] • [promoted]
    Senior Software Engineer- Backend

    Senior Software Engineer- Backend

    Flow • San Francisco, CA, US
    [job_card.full_time]
    At Flow, we’re reimagining what it means to live, work, and connect.More than just a real estate company, Flow is a brand, a technology platform, and an operations ecosystem spanning condomin...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_variable_days] • [promoted]
    Senior Software Engineer - Backend

    Senior Software Engineer - Backend

    Sigma Computing • San Francisco, CA, United States
    [job_card.full_time]
    We are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who have the chops to build and deliver world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission t...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_30] • [promoted]
    Senior Software Engineer Backend

    Senior Software Engineer Backend

    Happyrobot • San Francisco, California, USA
    [job_card.full_time]
    HappyRobot is the AI-native operating system for the real economya system that closes the circuit between intelligence and action. By combining real-time truth specialized AI workers and an orchestr...[show_more]
    [last_updated.last_updated_variable_days] • [promoted]