Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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, Kiddom is looking for a Backend Engineer who will embody forward-thinking best practices and bring a positive attitude to work with our team and strive for the betterment of our children's education and the future of our society.  

You will...

• Design and build a scalable, generalized framework for third-party API integrations
• Leverage existing infrastructure and components to build RESTful web services
• Build APIs and robust testing environments for internal and external developers
• Bring an attention to detail - what we do affects people’s educational opportunities and we have to be mindful of that
• Craft delightful user experiences
• Own the product - we love people who pick up things and run with them

What we look for

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years professional software engineering experience
• Experience designing and building REST APIs
• Exposure to authorization technologies (OAuth)
• Experience with continuous integration and automation tools and processes
• 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 with educational technologies
• Experience or interest in education
• Experience working at a startup
• Experience with React/Redux
• Experience with Go(lang)
• Experience with Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and AWS (EC2, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, Lambda)
• Experience with Terraform