2 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$165k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Ship end-to-end features that improve student and teacher experiences.
- Own scoped initiatives from design through rollout and make increasingly independent design decisions.
- Build and scale backend services, APIs, and event-driven systems.
- Improve code quality, observability, testing, CI/CD, performance, reliability, and deployment practices.
- Participate in operational excellence and incident response.
- Partner with product managers and designers on UX, interaction design, and execution.
- Use Cursor, Claude Code, or similar AI coding tools daily while reviewing, debugging, and understanding generated code.
- Contribute to design discussions and code reviews and participate in mentorship.
- Meet with teachers and students to understand product usage and improvement opportunities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience.
- Roughly 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience, with standout candidates outside that range considered.
- Strong backend experience in at least one modern language such as Kotlin, Python, Go, Rust, Scala, Elixir, or Haskell.
- Hands-on experience scaling systems from tens or hundreds of thousands of users or requests to millions.
- Experience designing APIs and event-driven systems involving queues or messaging.
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and production systems on cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
- Experience owning a multi-week feature or initiative, including design decisions and measurable impact.
- Daily AI-enabled development experience with tools such as Cursor or Claude Code, including the ability to explain, debug, and fix AI-generated code.
- Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and reliable deployment practices.
- Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical colleagues.
- Larger-company and startup experience and comfort in a fast-paced early-stage environment are preferred.
- Experience contributing to React and TypeScript frontend codebases is a plus.
- Experience shipping LLM-backed features, building AI evaluations, or implementing multi-step model workflows is a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, including 100% company-paid employee medical premiums.
- Flexible PTO and company holidays.
- Daily DoorDash lunch credit.
- Company-paid Wellhub membership with gym networks, wellness apps, and coaching sessions.
- 401(k) matching.
- Dog-friendly office.
- Full-time role based in San Francisco or New York, with four days per week in the office and Wednesdays working from home.
- Requires flexibility with work hours and availability outside regular business hours.
About Kira
Kira builds an AI-powered teaching and learning platform for K–12 education designed to replace fragmented classroom software with one integrated system. The product combines curriculum, lesson planning, grading and feedback, tutoring, translation, analytics, and student support in a single workflow for districts and teachers. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the privately held company raised a Series A in 2023 and is backed by NEA, AI Fund, and Primavera.