ahsanhilal

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: [email protected] 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

sent you an email

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)

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

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)

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.

This is great news! I actually worked with Kalev on this in 2007-2009 in collecting the event database at University of Illinois, and it was one of the most interesting experiences of my life. Glad to see it finally opened up for general public/researchers.

Exactly teachers have a lot of leeway in how they want to teach something. The most common reasons for failure are that the teacher does not understand exactly what she is teaching. That is a failure of the district and school in not recognizing that the teacher is not well-trained to teach the subject matter.