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Director of Engineering

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Kiddom

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United States, San Francisco

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IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

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.

Job Responsibility:

  • Own delivery for a portfolio of product and platform areas, ensuring your teams ship high-quality software on time
  • Help define and drive adoption of engineering best practices
  • Contribute to technical decision-making on architecture, frameworks, and key platform investments
  • Lead, coach, and grow engineering managers and senior engineers across backend, frontend, DevOps, data, and AI-adjacent teams
  • Implement and refine processes for planning, estimation, documentation, and cross-team collaboration
  • Partner with the engineering leadership on career ladders, performance management, and succession planning within engineering
  • Work with Product, Data, and Curriculum teams to deliver AI-powered features that improve personalization, grading, insights, and curriculum recommendations
  • Help teams integrate AI capabilities into existing workflows in ways that are intuitive, reliable, and impactful for educators and students
  • Partner with platform and SRE teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, observability, and cloud cost efficiency
  • Work with data engineering to design and maintain scalable, well-modeled data pipelines that power AI and analytics features
  • Support integration of real-time and batch data sources into the product in ways that are secure, privacy-preserving, and aligned with education data regulations
  • Partner with Product and GTM leaders to prioritize work based on customer impact, state adoption cycles, and business goals
  • Collaborate with Customer Success and Support to understand field feedback and translate it into backlog items and improvements
  • Help GTM teams with procurement processes and procedures, including privacy and security guidelines as well as RFO proposals

Requirements:

  • 10+ years in software engineering
  • 5+ years leading and scaling teams in a SaaS environment
  • Has managed multiple teams working on a range of products
  • Strong background in building and operating distributed systems and cloud-native platforms
  • Experience delivering products that leverage AI/ML (for example, recommendations, automation, analytics) or working closely with data science/ML teams
  • Familiarity with modern data pipelines, security best practices, and observability
  • Comfortable diving into technical discussions and guiding teams on trade-offs, even if you are not writing code daily
  • Be able to be ‘in the weeds’ with the engineers driving technical decisions
What we offer:
  • 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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 09, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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