Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kiddom is transforming K–12 education by bringing high-quality curriculum, instructional tools, and student analytics together in one coherent system. They are seeking a Staff Backend Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services that power their applications.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field
- 7+ 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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field required; Master's degree preferred
- Experience in Edtech industry
- Familiarity with Golang, Typescript
- Experience with AWS Lambda, Terraform
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
- 401k plan
- 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
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