Kiddom5mo ago

USD 180000–230000/yr

Senior Backend Engineer, Tooling

San Francisco Or New YorkFull-timesenior

EngineeringOtherBackend EngineeringSenior Backend Engineer

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Overview

About Kiddom Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning.

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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.

Kiddom’s Tooling team builds and maintains the core systems that empower all engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and efficient software. As a Senior Backend Engineer on this team, you’ll focus on developing backend services, automation frameworks, and internal developer tools that improve the velocity and reliability of our entire platform.

You’ll play a key role in shaping how Kiddom engineers build, deploy, and observe systems at scale — with an emphasis on clean, maintainable, and testable code written primarily in Python, and secondary exposure to GoLang.

Design, build, and maintain backend services and automation tooling primarily in Python, with opportunities to contribute to GoLang-based systems.

Develop and maintain internal APIs, asynchronous task frameworks, and services that improve developer productivity and platform reliability.

Collaborate cross-functionally with other engineering teams to understand their needs and build internal systems that streamline workflows.

Optimize and maintain integrations with internal and external systems, including CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and developer infrastructure.

Own projects end-to-end — from system design and architecture to implementation, deployment, and monitoring.

Drive engineering excellence through thoughtful code reviews, automated testing, and performance optimization.

Champion modern backend practices — including observability, scalability, and fault tolerance — within the Tooling ecosystem.

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to shaping the future of Kiddom’s backend and infrastructure practices.

BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field

6+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining backend systems at scale

Deep expertise in Python, including experience building APIs and asynchronous processing systems

Familiarity with GoLang, with an interest in contributing to Go-based services and tooling

Strong proficiency with both relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis)

Hands-on experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture

Production experience on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including Docker, Kubernetes, and IaC (Terraform, etc.)

Solid understanding of design patterns, testing, and backend performance tuning

Strong debugging and system observability skills

Collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively with product managers, frontend teams, and other stakeholders

Excellent communication skills — written, verbal, and architectural documentation

Desire to mentor and elevate team members’ technical skills

Passion for improving K–12 education and building systems that serve teachers, students, and educational equity

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job

San Francisco Or New York

Hybrid — some on-site time required

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Posted: November 12, 2025
First seen: March 26, 2026
Last seen: May 11, 2026

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Kiddom is an education technology company that provides a comprehensive digital curriculum platform for K-12 schools and districts, integrating high-quality instructional materials with dynamic learning technology.

Employees

125

Founded

2015

Domain

kiddom.co

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USD 180000–230000

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