Technical Lead

About Kira Learning

We live in a world where technology is rapidly changing the educational experiences of students and teachers everywhere, and we have the opportunity to shape how this change takes place. It is Kira Learning’s mission to harness transformative AI technologies to make world-class teaching and learning accessible to everyone. 

Kira is a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier Venture Capital funds including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Andrew Ng’s AI Fund.

Location

New York, NY or San Francisco, CA

This is a hybrid role, reporting to the office four days per week. Each person may work from home one day per week on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Write and ship code while providing technical leadership and ensuring high-quality engineering practices.
• Contribute to the development and execution of the technical strategy, aligning it with Kira's overall goals and objectives.
• Mentor engineers on best practices, architecture, and debugging while fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
• Drive technical excellence by setting standards for performance, reliability, and code quality
• Drive sustainable engineering practices with a focus on quality, maintainable solutions.
• Ensure successful and timely deployments.
• Work closely with product team members to inform timelines and the product roadmap
• Work closely with Kira leadership to ensure the engineering team is high-performing, motivated, and contributing effectively to achieve company goals.
• Identify team challenges and relay perspective of the engineering function to key stakeholders, helping to influence decisions to deliver solutions

Experience & Skills

• Being a seasoned software engineer with management experience as well, excited to dive in and do hands-on technical work but equally excited to lead technical teams to peak performance.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, with the ability to guide technical decisions in these areas.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with an end-to-end ownership mindset and a focus on delivering impactful solutions.
• Having a humble attitude and willingness to learn from others, and an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed
• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done
• Having a strong sense of accountability and willingness to dive on with issues requiring incidence response
• Have excellent communication skills. Expressing ideas clearly and listening carefully are among the most important requirements for success in this role.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity. For applicants in the US, the salary range for this role is $170,000 - $230,000, depending on relevant considerations like professional experience and related skill sets.
• Medical, dental, vision, including a medical insurance plan with 100% coverage of employee premiums.
• Flexible PTO policy and company holidays
• And more to come!

Background Check: Kira Learning will make a conditional job offer in line with local, state and federal laws, and a subsequent criminal, education, and employment history background check will then be issued.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: At Kira Learning, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Kira believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees are critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.