🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll own core backend systems and infrastructure at Kira, a startup making world-class teaching accessible through AI. You'll ship end-to-end features that improve student and teacher experiences, while evolving technical direction and operational excellence. This role offers the chance to work on transformative AI technologies backed by top VCs.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Ship end-to-end features for student and teacher experiences
• Set and evolve technical direction from business goals
• Improve code quality, observability, CI/CD, and developer tooling
• Own performance, scalability, security, and incident response

📋 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong backend experience with Kotlin, Python, Go, Rust, or Scala
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
• Experience designing APIs and working with relational databases like MySQL

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience with frontend codebases (React, TypeScript)
• Experience integrating LLM-backed services

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Competitive equity and salary range $170k-$230k
• 🏥 Medical, dental, vision with 100% coverage of employee
• 🍱 Daily DoorDash credit for lunch

🚩 Heads Up

• Hybrid policy requiring 4 days in-office without remote flexibility
• Availability outside regular business hours mentioned as requirement