# Software Engineer (Backend, Infrastructure Focus)

As a Software Engineer at Kira, you will build and own backend services that power critical product workflows, and you will grow quickly while doing it. This role is for an engineer who has already seen a system grow fast and wants more ownership: real design decisions, close collaboration with our VP of Engineering, and mentorship from senior engineers. This is a product-minded backend role with meaningful work in performance, reliability, and infrastructure. You’ll partner with product and design to ship complete features, contribute across the stack when needed, and have opportunities to meet directly with teachers and students to learn how they use Kira and where we can improve. This is a full-time position that requires flexibility with work hours and availability outside of regular business hours. We have offices in San Francisco, CA and New York City, NY. We ask that employees work from one of the two locations and come into the office in person 4 days a week (Wednesdays WFH). What You’ll Do Ship impactful, end-to-end features that improve student and teacher experiences Own scoped initiatives from design through rollout, making real design decisions with increasing indepen

- **Id**: 4284364
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kira-learning-software-engineer-backend-infrastructure-focus>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T19:28:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T21:20:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5926
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Health insurance, Life insurance, Pet friendly
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: EdTech Platforms, Education AI

## Company

- **Id**: 689795
- **Name**: Kira Learning
- **Domain**: kira-learning.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kira-learning>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 165000
- **Max**: 195000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 195000

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Elixir** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Haskell** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **MySQL** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T21:20:11Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T22:07:40Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 195000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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