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Kiddom | San Francisco CA | ONSITE | Sr. Front End Engineer, iOS Engineer, Backend Engineer, Growth Engineer

I am the founder/CEO at Kiddom, an education technology company making software for K-12; building a system that integrates all content curriculum, data and analytics into one coherent system for educators/students/parents/administrators; our products are data heavy and our vision to connect disparate software to understand student achievement at its core using ML and personalization techniques. We recently raised a Series A round from a top tier VC firm in the valley (unannounced) and are growing our team. Stack: Golang, JS, React, Swift, Objective-C, AWS

Sr. Front End Engineer: 5+ years of experience building and maintaining apps; experience with React a plus but not required iOS Engineer: 3+ years of experience, developing and maintaining apps a must Platform Engineer: 5+ years of experience; experience with Golang a plus but not required We have other openings as well: https://jobs.lever.co/kiddom

Our interview process is tiered from a phone screen, to video calls with team leads, to meeting the rest of the core team in person at our office in SF.

We're fun and dynamic, early and motivated to bring real change to the lives of teachers, their students and the future of education in classrooms across the world. We believe in a combination of salary and equity to provide the best fit according to each individual's needs and are open to discussing terms. Please send your resume's and inquiries to: hiring@kiddom.co and let me know what position you are applying; plus add a resume or a LinkedIn profile I can review


Kiddom | San Francisco CA | ONSITE | Sr. Front End Engineer, iOS Engineer, Backend Engineer

I am the founder/CEO at Kiddom, an education technology company making software for K-12; building a system that integrates all content curriculum, data and analytics into one coherent system for educators/students/parents/administrators; our products are data heavy and our vision to connect disparate software to understand student achievement at its core using ML and personalization techniques. We recently raised a Series A round from a top tier VC firm in the valley (unannounced) and are growing our team.

Stack: Golang, JS, React, Swift, Objective-C, AWS

Sr. Front End Engineer: 5+ years of experience building and maintaining apps; experience with React a plus but not required iOS Engineer: 3+ years of experience, developing and maintaining apps a must Backend Engineer: 5+ years of experience; experience with Golang a plus but not required

Our interview process is tiered from a phone screen, to video calls with team leads, to meeting the rest of the core team in person at our office in SF.

We're fun and dynamic, early and motivated to bring real change to the lives of teachers, their students and the future of education in classrooms across the world. We believe in a combination of salary and equity to provide the best fit according to each individual's needs and are open to discussing terms.

Please send your resume's and inquiries to: hiring@kiddom.co and let me know what position you are applying; plus add a resume or a LinkedIn profile I can review


Thanks Jon! Will definitely do


Thanks for the well thought out reply! The course layout you have written out is quite thorough. The only thing is that for someone who does not have any programming background, they need to see immediate results to gain an understanding of how powerful code is. That is why I thought Html/CSS is a good starting point and then go in deeper.

I am open to other methodologies, and we can talk more on email if you would like. Would love to exchange ideas and resources (email in profile)


It's a bit radical, but I am tempted to test it. :)

I am wiseleo on just about every website and gmail, so feel free to send me an instant message.

For me, seeing an executable test spec for the first time was very surprising and revealing. There is an entire book "Refactoring: improving the design of existing code" that teaches you how to name functions so your code reads like English.

After all, this is valid Jasmine from near the beginning of my test suite:

it("should return an array containing at least one object", function() { expect(menu.length).toBeGreaterThan(0); });

It reads like English. If you can show that code can be written like this rather than like typical code, you will notice an immediate jump in confidence.

If you show that in Rspec, where the alien-looking

function ( ) { };

is replaced with

  do
end

and expect('should do something useful') becomes expect "should do something useful"

it becomes even more approachable.


Thanks for the offer! I will ask the teachers and get back to you


Its pretty old by anything of todays standards. I did get Ubuntu loaded on it for my teenage son to travel with this Summer and he says it doesn't really work for his needs, FYI.


Yes definitely want to give him a primer of a git or some sort of VCS. Hopefully after we get through some basic python


Hey Mike (sorry if that is incorrect). Can you email me when you get a chance? I would really like to see your slides in detail if possible.

Also, your doing more at 17 then I was, and I would love to talk more. (email in profile)


Hi ahsanhilal, I don't think I can see your email on your profile. You can contact me at mike(at)scoreportal.org


sent you an email


I am using codehs, codeacademy

Treehouse is very similar to other ones, Odin Project seems to be for older learners. Bentobox is fantastic! Thanks for the rec!


Great pick! I Will definitely loo into it. Thanks for the rec!


Thanks for the input, appreciate it! I am mostly focusing on tools that give him explicit visual feedback, so that is why I am focusing on html and styling. Write some code and then have it do something on a blank page seems to be powerful.

As for theory, I am not really focusing on programming concepts, more on practical/visual work initially.

I was thinking of giving him some codecombat/scratch homework, but he is a bit older (16 already) so thought he might think it is for people younger than him. I will try it out though myself first.


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