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Senior Software Engineer in USA new

  • New York, NY

Responsibilities

  • Ship impactful end-to-end features for student and teacher experiences.
  • Set technical direction and translate business goals into pragmatic technical plans.
  • Improve code quality, observability, CI/CD, infrastructure, and developer tooling.
  • Own performance, scalability, security, reliability, operational excellence, and incident response.
  • Partner with product managers and designers on UX, interaction design, and execution.
  • Participate in prototyping, testing, rollout, and ongoing product support.
  • Provide technical leadership through design discussions, code reviews, mentorship, and technical decision-making.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience.
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong backend experience with Kotlin, Python, Go, Rust, or Scala, with willingness to learn Kira’s stack.
  • Hands-on experience operating production systems and cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
  • Experience designing APIs, working with relational databases such as MySQL, and shipping complex systems.
  • At least two years of experience mentoring and/or managing junior and mid-level engineers.
  • Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and reliable deployment practices.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced startup with changing priorities and ambiguity.
  • Preferred: extensive experience contributing to frontend codebases such as React and TypeScript.
  • Preferred: experience integrating LLM-backed services, including API usage, evaluation, and operational considerations.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, including a medical plan with 100% employee coverage.
  • Daily DoorDash lunch credit.
  • Full-time position based in San Francisco or New York City with in-person office work four days per week.
  • Requires flexibility with work hours and availability outside regular business hours.

Salary: $180k - $250k/yr

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 workf...

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