Kiddom is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers in building user-facing experiences for teachers and students, aiming to improve educational equity and growth through a digital learning platform.
Requirements
- 4+ years managing engineering teams focused on modern JavaScript front end (ideally React/TypeScript).
- 8+ years of professional engineering with significant ownership of interactive web products.
- Proven expertise building, deploying, and optimizing large-scale, data-driven web applications.
- Experience with SPA architectures, performance optimization, browser/dataviz challenges, and security best practices.
- Familiarity with AWS, CI/CD tooling, and automated frontend testing.
- Experience with internationalization, accessibility, and web standards in the edtech space.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow front-end engineers working with React/TypeScript, Redux, GraphQL, and CSS-in-JS.
- Partner with Product, Design, and other Engineering Managers to plan and execute on Kiddom’s user experience vision.
- Establish technical direction for the front-end, driving consistency, scalability, and maintainability of code and UI systems.
- Champion web accessibility standards, internationalization/localization, and responsive design.
- Review and scope architectural decisions, ensuring reliability and performance at scale for U.S. districts and millions of students.
- Mentor developers, provide clear feedback, and create an environment of ownership and continuous learning.
- Encourage innovation while balancing product velocity and technical debt reduction.
Other
- Strong collaboration skills with Design/Product to ship polished UX/UI.
- Empathetic communicator with a track record for growing and retaining high-caliber engineers.
- Passion for education technology and mission-driven products is a plus.
