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Lead a full-stack engineering team responsible for creating critical capabilities for the Home Team, which is at the heart of our logged-in experience, directly influencing retention, engagement, and long term success by guiding learners through discovery and engagement.
Job Responsibility:
Building the Team: Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to refine the team’s charter, ensure alignment with broader business goals, and support overall team health and growth
Mentoring: Act as a role model and coach for engineers
Hiring: Identify key skill gaps and growth areas on the team. Drive the hiring pipeline by sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding talented engineers
Advising (Technical Leadership): Provide hands-on technical guidance to engineers as they design systems and tackle complex problems
Product Enablement: In partnership with Product Management, curate a compelling vision for the logged-in home experience. Translate high-level product needs into an actionable engineering roadmap
Platform Leadership: Balance building new features with managing tech debt to maintain a reliable, scalable platform
Mediating: Foster an inclusive, collaborative team environment
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, OR equivalent practical experience (e.g. 3+ years as a hands-on software engineer building web applications or distributed systems)
5+ years in software product development or a related field, including prior experience leading engineering teams (2+ years in an engineering management role)
Strong software engineering foundation with experience in system design, data structures, and algorithms
Nice to have:
Leadership: Demonstrated integrity, transparency, and inspiration in your leadership style
Emotional Intelligence: High degree of empathy, humility, and effective communication skills
Problem Solving: Creative and analytical mindset with rigorous technical problem-solving skills
Thriving in Ambiguity: Excellence in driving clarity and results in ambiguous, complex situations
Product & Platform Vision: Experience balancing rapid product feature delivery with long-term platform health
Platform Ownership: Experience managing a team that owns a product platform or critical infrastructure component
Experience with Generative AI applications including prompt engineering and using APIs such as OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini
Scalable Systems Expertise: Demonstrated experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, using modern backend technologies such as Java or Scala and API frameworks like GraphQL and gRPC
Full-Stack Familiarity: Familiarity with modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, or similar) and how front-end interfaces integrate with backend services