Senior Backend Engineer, Tooling

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...

$160,000 - $200,000 a year

Salary range is dependent on geographic location, prior experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.

What we offer

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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.

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