Senior Backend Engineer, Tooling
Kiddom
Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Nov 13, 2025
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.
You will...
- 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.
What we’re looking for...
- 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
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.
