Senior Backend Engineer, Tooling

Posted:
11/12/2025, 4:44:03 AM

Location(s):
San Francisco, California, United States ⋅ New York, New York, United States ⋅ New York, United States ⋅ California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

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.
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.