Staff Software Engineer, Frontend
Kiddom
Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Oct 4, 2024
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.
Role Overview:
As a Staff Software Engineer - Frontend at Kiddom, you will play a critical role in designing and delivering full-stack product features with a strong emphasis on frontend architecture. Your work will involve scoping, building, and optimizing product features and cross-cutting concerns to address complex problems at scale. You will collaborate with other senior-level engineers, select the appropriate tools and technologies, and implement robust, production-grade software solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design & Delivery: Own the design and delivery of full-stack product features, focusing on frontend architecture and scalability.
- Data Solutions: Scope out and build the best-possible data solutions for both green-field and legacy problems, ensuring they meet the scale and performance requirements.
- Tool Selection: Shortlist and evaluate tools and technologies that align with project goals and technical requirements.
- Implementation & Validation: Develop and validate production-grade software solutions, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance.
- Abstractions & Integration: Build abstractions that improve integration with common data stack-oriented technologies and generalize your work to benefit a variety of use cases.
- Impactful Features: Develop key product features that directly impact the success of the company and enhance the overall user experience.
Qualifications
- Experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on frontend development and system architecture.
- Technical Skills: Expertise in designing scalable systems, working with data-oriented technologies, and implementing production-grade software.
- Programming Languages: Proficiency in languages such as Java, Python, or Golang.
- Tools & Technologies: Experience with front-end frameworks (React, Angular, Vue), databases (SQL, NoSQL), and cloud services (e.g., AWS, GCP).
- Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to tackle complex, real world problems.
Challenges and Opportunities:
- Scale & Complexity: Tackle the challenge of designing and implementing scalable solutions for a high-impact platform.
- Innovation: Explore and adopt new technologies to enhance our tech stack and stay at the forefront of the industry.
Salary range is dependent on geography, past experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.
What we offer
Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits:
-Competitive salary
-Meaningful equity
-Health benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
-10 paid sick days per year
-Unlimited vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.
-Paid family leave for eligible employees
COVID Vaccination Policy
Kiddom policy requires employees to be vaccinated before they visit an office or attend company events..
We have remote roles but in certain positions where office attendance is deemed to be essential to the role, offers of employment shall be conditional upon proof of vaccination.
