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The Director of Engineering leads K12 Tutoring’s platform engineering organization, overseeing multiple cross-functional Agile teams responsible for building secure, scalable, accessible, and high-performing software solutions across our customer segments—including schools, districts, and families. This leader partners closely with Product, Data, AI, Information Security, DevOps, Enterprise Architecture, and Business stakeholders to translate strategy into execution, delivering high-quality customer experiences while building a strong engineering culture rooted in technical excellence, continuous improvement, and operational rigor. The Director is accountable for technical architecture, delivery velocity, system reliability, team development, and long-term platform evolution, including the integration of AI-powered learning tools into the K12 Tutoring ecosystem.
Job Responsibility:
Lead and scale a distributed organization of Software Engineers, QA professionals, and Scrum Masters, fostering a culture of accountability, learning, and high performance
Own delivery execution across multiple Agile teams, ensuring predictable outcomes aligned to business priorities, customer commitments, and regulatory requirements
Partner with Product, Business, Data Engineering, AI, Information Security, and Operations leaders to shape roadmaps, scope initiatives, and deliver differentiated platform capabilities
Set and evolve engineering operating rhythms, including sprint planning, release management, dependency coordination, and continuous improvement practices
Drive architectural standards and technical strategy across the platform, ensuring solutions are secure, compliant, performant, accessible, and scalable
Make strategic trade-offs between short-term feature delivery and long-term technical investments, including identifying, prioritizing, and addressing technical debt to reduce risk and ensure sustainable scalability and efficiency
Promote adoption of engineering best practices while maintaining agility and avoiding over-engineering
Thrive in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments, balancing hands-on technical guidance with team leadership and execution
Establish and track engineering metrics such as delivery throughput, quality, reliability, security posture, and team health
use data to improve outcomes
Ensure strong DevOps and cloud practices, including CI/CD pipelines, observability, cost optimization, resiliency, and incident response
Champion reliability engineering, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity processes aligned with uptime targets, RPO/RTO requirements, and customer SLAs
Guide the development and deployment of AI-enabled features, collaborating with internal experts and vendors to integrate machine learning models, analytics, and intelligent automation into production systems
Build strong cross-functional relationships with senior leaders and external partners
communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
Influence strategic technology decisions, including build vs. buy analyses, vendor partnerships, and long-term platform investments
Develop organizational structures, career paths, hiring plans, and succession strategies to support growth
Create an inclusive, feedback-rich environment that attracts and retains top talent while continuously raising the technical bar
Represent Engineering in executive forums, providing visibility into progress, risks, capacity, and investment tradeoffs
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering roles, including senior leadership of multi-team organizations
Proven experience leading engineering teams at scale (20+ staff and contractors) delivering complex, customer-facing platforms
Demonstrated success driving Agile delivery in high-growth or transformation environments
Strong background in modern cloud-based architectures, DevOps practices, and distributed systems
Experience building secure, compliant systems in regulated environments (e.g., education, healthcare, fintech, or government)
Track record of shipping new product capabilities—including data-driven or AI-enabled features—into production
Excellent people leadership skills, including coaching managers, building performance cultures, and developing technical leaders
Experience establishing engineering metrics and operating models that improve velocity, quality, and predictability
Strong strategic thinking paired with hands-on execution orientation
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence at the executive level
Exceptional organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities across a complex portfolio