Director of Engineering – San Francisco

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 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 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

What we’re looking for..

10+ years in software engineering, with 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