About Kiddom
Kiddom is an innovative education platform that advances equity and student growth by combining high‑quality instructional content with interactive digital learning. With powerful curriculum management tools, Kiddom enables schools and districts to fully own and customize their curriculum, creating learning experiences tailored to the unique needs of their communities. The platform’s high‑quality curriculum is enhanced with strong data insights for teachers and leaders, supporting continuous improvement in instruction, programming, and professional development.

Kiddom is looking for a hands-on Director of Engineering to lead major parts of the engineering organization and help bring our AI‑first vision to reality. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, this role will manage multiple teams, ensure strong delivery, and evolve our platform for district‑level scale. You will turn our technical strategy into action by building high-performing teams, strengthening our architecture and infrastructure, and collaborating closely with Product, Data, AI, and Curriculum to launch AI‑powered features that educators and students value.

You will:
• Oversee delivery across several product and platform areas, ensuring your teams release high‑quality software on schedule
• Help shape and promote engineering best practices
• Participate in key architectural, framework, and platform decisions
• Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers across backend, frontend, DevOps, data, and AI‑related teams
• Build and refine processes for planning, estimating, documenting, and collaborating across teams
• Work with engineering leadership on career development, performance processes, and succession planning
• Partner with Product, Data, and Curriculum to build AI‑driven features that enhance personalization, grading, insights, and curriculum recommendations
• Guide teams in incorporating AI into existing workflows in intuitive, reliable, and meaningful ways
• Collaborate with platform and SRE teams to enhance CI/CD, observability, and cloud cost management
• Work with data engineering to design and maintain scalable, well‑structured data pipelines supporting AI and analytics
• Support secure, privacy‑focused integration of real‑time and batch data sources in alignment with education data regulations
• Align with Product and GTM leaders to prioritize initiatives based on customer needs, adoption cycles, and business objectives
• Partner with Customer Success and Support to turn field feedback into actionable improvements
• Assist GTM teams with procurement processes, privacy and security requirements, and RFO proposals

What we’re looking for:
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading and scaling teams in SaaS
• Experience managing multiple teams across diverse product areas
• Strong background in distributed systems and cloud‑native platforms
• Experience delivering AI/ML‑enabled products, or working closely with ML/data science teams
• Knowledge of modern data pipelines, security best practices, and observability
• Ability to engage in technical discussions and advise on trade‑offs without coding daily
• Comfortable diving deep with engineers to guide technical decisions

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Kiddom provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, national origin, citizenship, military status, pregnancy, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected category under applicable laws.

Salary is determined by location, experience, seniority, and demonstrated skills during the interview process.

What we offer
Full‑time permanent employees receive the following benefits starting on their first day:
• Competitive compensation
• Meaningful equity
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance (multiple plans available)
• One Medical membership in eligible locations
• Flexible vacation policy, with employees typically taking about four weeks annually
• 10 paid sick days per year (prorated based on start date)
• Paid holidays
• Paid bereavement leave
• Paid family leave after birth or adoption—at least 16 paid weeks for birthing parents and 10 weeks for caretaker parents, supplementing state benefits
• Commuter and FSA plans

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Kiddom remains committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without discrimination based on any protected status under applicable federal, state, or local laws.