Kira

Backend Engineer

• Own core backend systems and infrastructure powering critical product workflows
• Ship impactful, end-to-end features improving student and teacher experiences
• Help set and evolve technical direction and translate business goals into pragmatic technical plans
• Improve code quality, observability, CI/CD, and developer tooling
• Address performance, scalability, security, reliability, and incident response
• Partner with product managers and designers on UX, interaction design, and execution
• Participate in prototyping, testing, rollout, and ongoing support
• Provide technical leadership through design discussions, code reviews, and mentorship
• Work from the New York City or San Francisco office in person four days per week; Wednesdays are work from home

Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Infrastructure Focus

Infrastructure Engineer

• Ship impactful, end-to-end features that improve student and teacher experiences
• Help set and evolve technical direction, translating business goals into pragmatic technical plans
• Improve product and engineering foundations, including code quality, observability, CI/CD, and developer tooling
• Own operational excellence, addressing performance, scalability, security, reliability, and incident response
• Partner closely with product managers and designers on UX, interaction design, and execution
• Participate across the full lifecycle: prototyping, testing, rollout, and ongoing support
• Provide technical leadership through design discussions, code reviews, and mentorship

Learning and Development

• Design and build courses aligned to customer contract requirements using Kira's AI-powered course creation tools and instructional design best practices
• Support large-scale course builds including domestic curriculum and international programs
• Conduct QA review for all customer-facing courses prior to release, including contractor-produced content, ensuring alignment with Kira's instructional standards
• Develop lesson plans, vocabulary lists, pacing guides, and standards crosswalks that help districts use Kira's platform for their own curriculum needs
• Design content with localization and multilingual audiences in mind, particularly for LATAM and international government partners
• Develop and maintain training materials, facilitator guides, agendas, and speaker notes for PD sessions across domestic and international accounts
• Produce contractor-ready materials that allow Kira's growing facilitator network to deliver sessions independently without sacrificing quality
• Co-facilitate in-person and virtual PD sessions during initial engagements, progressing toward independent facilitation for assigned accounts over time
• Own follow-up commitments from PD sessions, communicating resolution promptly to the customer and assigned Customer Success Manager (CSM)
• Travel to facilitate in-person PD sessions as needed
• Review all customer-facing courses and training materials prior to delivery, flagging instructional gaps, alignment issues, or platform inconsistencies
• Understand when AI is useful, and when a human eye is necessary.
• Maintain and update standards crosswalk documentation as course content and state requirements evolve
• Ensure all curriculum reflects a 'teaching with Kira' lens — designed for whole-class instruction, real classroom contexts, and meaningful engagement, not just platform onboarding
• Support the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles course update process to meet current College Board standards
• Maintain up-to-date records of training activity, curriculum deliverables, and session outcomes in HubSpot
• Report training delivery metrics (sessions, participants, completion rates, qualitative feedback) to CS leadership for customer and partner reports
• Contribute to annual PD calendar development and summer planning.

Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Infrastructure Focus

Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Infrastructure Focus

Curriculum & Learning Specialist, Bilingual, Spanish/English