Kira is the first AI platform that delivers personalized education at scale. Use Kira alongside your existing tools, or as your complete AI-powered teaching solution. Backed by NEA.
About the role
Turn company priorities into clear problems, ownership, and honest milestones; find the critical path, surface risk early, test assumptions, and cut scope intelligently. Stay close enough to the architecture, codebase, and production systems to evaluate technical decisions independently; review consequential work and coach engineers on system design, data modeling, debugging, performance, reliability, code quality, and security.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience
- 8+ years professional engineering experience, including designing, shipping, and operating consequential production systems
- 2+ years managing mid, senior and lead level software engineers
- Technical depth comparable to a strong Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer, with recent hands-on experience to review substantive changes, investigate production behavior, and write targeted code when useful
- Strong system design and debugging skills across architecture, APIs, data models, distributed systems, performance, and failure modes
- A track record of developing engineers into more independent owners, including senior engineers or technical leads
More about this role
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. Kira's mission is to harness transformative AI technologies to make world-class personalized teaching and learning accessible to everyone. We are a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier Venture Capital funds including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Andrew Ng's AI Fund, and Primavera.
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team responsible for significant product and platform capabilities. You are accountable for the people on your team, the technical quality and reliability of what they build, and whether the work reaches useful outcomes for real classrooms.
This is a deeply technical management role. We expect Engineering Managers to have the judgment of a strong senior or staff-level engineer: able to challenge system designs, review consequential code, debug production issues, reason about performance and failure modes, and coach engineers from concrete experience. You should still write code when it is the highest-leverage thing to do, but your success is measured by the capability...
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