Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

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, we are seeking an experienced Full Stack Senior Engineer: someone with track record of building world class web apps, guiding a team in developing with idiomatic, tested, and maintainable code. We are building in React, and assume candidates will either have basic mastery or have applicable experience.

You will...

• Work with the design and product teams to set feature roadmap and release deadlines.
• Be able to lead full stack front end and backend development, build and maintain high standards for work and work with the team to maintain them.
• Guide the team in making intelligent and pragmatic technical trade-offs.
• Design and implement user-facing products.
• Apply deep understanding of web technologies to reason about engineering / design tradeoffs.
• Have the foresight to recognize potential future issues and ensure the team is made aware, discusses, and mitigates the issues before they affect the business

What we look for

• 7+ years of experience developing with front-end web technologies.
• Commitment to mentorship, training and supporting one's teammates.
• Demonstrable experience as an effective technical team lead of full-stack development.
• Vast knowledge of JS/CSS and Golang best practices and common pitfalls.
• Excellent knowledge of modern javascript frameworks and tools (React, Redux, and Webpack a plus but not required.)
• Working knowledge of Golang or C programming
• Comfort working with CSS pre--processors (We use SASS) and strategies for writing maintainable CSS.

Nice to have

• Interest in educational technology.
• Previous experience at a startup.