Director of Engineering

Director Of EngineeringKiddom 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 is seeking a hands-on Director Of Engineering to lead key parts of our engineering organization and help bring our AI-first product vision to life. Reporting to the VP Engineering, this leader will be responsible for managing multiple engineering teams, driving delivery excellence, and evolving our platform to support district-scale impact. You will translate the company's technical strategy into execution: building high-performing teams, maturing our architecture and infrastructure, and partnering closely with Product, Data, AI and Curriculum to ship AI-powered features that teachers and students love.You will...Own delivery for a portfolio of product and platform areas, ensuring your teams ship high-quality software on timeHelp define and drive adoption of engineering best practicesContribute to technical decision-making on architecture, frameworks, and key platform investmentsLead, coach, and grow engineering managers and senior engineers across backend, frontend, DevOps, data, and AI-adjacent teamsImplement and refine processes for planning, estimation, documentation, and cross-team collaborationPartner with the engineering leadership on career ladders, performance management, and succession planning within engineeringWork with Product, Data, and Curriculum teams to deliver AI-powered features that improve personalization, grading, insights, and curriculum recommendationsHelp teams integrate AI capabilities into existing workflows in ways that are intuitive, reliable, and impactful for educators and studentsPartner with platform and SRE teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, observability, and cloud cost efficiencyWork with data engineering to design and maintain scalable, well-modeled data pipelines that power AI and analytics featuresSupport integration of real-time and batch data sources into the product in ways that are secure, privacy-preserving, and aligned with education data regulationsPartner with Product and GTM leaders to prioritize work based on customer impact, state adoption cycles, and business goalsCollaborate with Customer Success and Support to understand field feedback and translate it into backlog items and improvementsHelp GTM teams with procurement processes and procedures, including privacy and security guidelines as well as RFO proposalsWhat we're looking for...10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years leading and scaling teams in a SaaS environmentHas managed multiple teams working on a range of productsStrong background in building and operating distributed systems and cloud-native platformsExperience delivering products that leverage AI/ML (for example, recommendations, automation, analytics) or working closely with data science/ML teamsFamiliarity with modern data pipelines, security best practices, and observabilityComfortable diving into technical discussions and guiding teams on trade-offs, even if you are not writing code dailyBe able to be 'in the weeds' with the engineers driving technical decisionsKiddom 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. Salary range is dependent on geographic location, prior experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day of employment:Competitive salaryMeaningful equityHealth insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insuranceOne Medical membership (in participating locations)Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)Paid holidaysPaid bereavement leavePaid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by StateCommuter and FSA plans