Senior Manager, Engineering

GoGuardian is an outcomes-focused learning company dedicated to improving learning environments for K-12 education. They are seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering to lead multiple teams, enhance engineering quality, and drive organizational performance by ensuring the delivery of high-impact, reliable software.

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple engineering teams to deliver high-quality, scalable software while ensuring strong alignment with company priorities and measurable business outcomes
• Set clear goals, define success metrics, and continuously inspect progress to ensure teams operate with focus, efficiency, and accountability
• Partner closely with Product, PMO, and cross-functional stakeholders to drive prioritization, manage trade-offs, and deliver impactful initiatives on time
• Remove organizational and technical barriers by coordinating across teams and influencing stakeholders to maintain execution momentum
• Own and drive engineering excellence by establishing strong development practices, including code quality, testing, and operational reliability
• Participate in and guide architectural decisions, ensuring thoughtful trade-offs between speed, scalability, and long-term maintainability
• Coach and develop engineering managers and senior engineers through regular feedback, mentorship, and structured growth planning
• Build a culture of ownership, inclusion, and continuous improvement where teams are accountable, collaborative, and consistently raising the bar
• Support hiring and actively build a strong, balanced team aligned to both current delivery needs and future growth

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• Strong track record of leading engineering teams delivering production-grade SaaS applications in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
• A technically credible leader with hands-on experience in Go and full-stack systems
• Deep experience with AWS and/or GCP and modern distributed systems, including architectures spanning microservices, monoliths, and event-driven design patterns
• Proven ability to drive sound architectural decisions and establish scalable engineering practices (e.g., design reviews, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, infrastructure as code)
• Strong operator who translates business goals into execution, using metrics and KPIs to drive accountability, performance, and continuous improvement across teams
• Effective and influential communicator who partners across engineering, product, and leadership while building and developing high-performing, inclusive teams through coaching, feedback, and clear accountability
• Eager to take initiative in a fast-paced, ever-changing, dynamic environment
• Fueled by the opportunity to truly impact the education landscape