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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.
About the role:
As a Systems Engineering Manager at Kiddom, you’ll have the opportunity to lead a talented team of (5+) systems and security engineers while driving meaningful, transformative work in the K-12 education space.
This role combines technical leadership with strategic impact, allowing you to shape Kiddom’s backend systems to scale seamlessly and securely. You’ll work with modern technologies, including Golang, Node.js, JS, Kubernetes, and AWS, while solving challenging technical problems that directly impact educators, administrators, and students. You will have the ability to motivate and inspire change across the entire engineering organization as we adapt to new technologies and AI capabilities that make us and our users more efficient. If you’re excited about leading engineering teams in a mission-driven environment, driving technical excellence, and building systems that truly matter, Kiddom offers an unparalleled opportunity to make a difference.
This role reports to our VP of Engineering Tim Catlin
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of software engineering work experience.
- 3+ years of experience in people management leading Systems or Infrastructure teams of 8+ engineers, including hands-on technical management building backend services.
- Ideally experience with: (Golang, Python, Node.js, JS)
- Expertise in AWS and Kubernetes is essential, along with the ability to mentor, delegate, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- You are strong in balancing priorities and making thoughtful decisions to meet immediate technical needs.
- You are able to participate in architecture and product discussions with engineers, contributing to informed decisions.
- You have a proven track record of shipping quality products on time.
- A customer-centric mindset and will apply that to building out platform services.
- You are highly organized and thrive in fast-paced environments with a structured approach to team operations.
- You can provide objective feedback, supporting individual and team growth.
- Growth mindset - you're eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting
- Adaptability, resiliency, and ability to thrive in ambiguity - things can change quickly, and you'll need to help the team evolve
Salary range is dependent on geography, past 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:
-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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