Senior Engineering Manager

Great Minds is a high-growth, mission-driven organization focused on developing high-quality curricula for math, science, and ELA. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers to influence technical direction and ensure the delivery of impactful digital offerings that empower educators and students.

Responsibilities:

• Influence overall solutions strategy and ensure the team is building great products through continuous review and feedback and in collaboration with Product partners
• Collaborate with other senior technical leaders and software engineers to continuously improve engineering practices and software architecture
• Manage a team of software engineers through one-on-ones, code and documentation review, and performance reviews
• Align software engineers to work that ensures quality delivery, engineer engagement, and overall management of platform knowledge across the team

Requirements:

• 7+ years experience as an individual contributor software engineer
• 3+ years experience as an engineering manager
• Expertise designing and operating software in a cloud-native application environment (AWS preferred)
• Ability to code application prototypes and reference architecture using one or more of the following languages/ frameworks (or comparable); NodeJS/ TypeScript, React, Python
• Ability to effectively communicate application architecture (written and oral) to multiple audiences, including product, business, and software engineers
• Ability to coach and mentor five to ten software engineers through one-on-ones, performance reviews, and other forms of feedback
• Ability to manage the work of five to ten software engineers through giving them assignments that allows growth and the right level of support at the same time
• Sense of intellectual curiosity and a passion for learning with a strong problem-solving mindset
• Bachelor's degree