Software Engineering Manager

Who is Recruiting from Scratch: 

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more. 

If you are a fit, the team will reach out to you about this role or any others that may be a fit for our clients.

Our Client

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, our client is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Their captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Their formative assessment products turn data into practical instructional support to help students at every skill level build a strong foundation in early reading and math. Their programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of all their students. Today, our client serves five million students in all 50 states.

Our client is a leader in creating immersive, rigorous digital learning experiences that look great, play great, and help students expect great things of themselves. Our client has been described as the best tech company in education, and the best education company in tech.

What You’ll Do

• Technical Leadership: Collaboratively guide teams to be  innovative and select appropriate architectures, strategies, and tech stacks. React is our chosen framework but there are many options to explore within it.

• Technical Guidance: Foster strong technical practices (code review, architectural planning, security by design) across multiple teams.

• Execution: Work with product leads to ensure teams have a high-value, high-velocity, and responsive product development lifecycle. 

• Deliver: Take responsibility for successful delivery against quarterly OKRs, including leading teams in establishing best practices in estimation, requirements analysis, balancing trade offs, and executing against commitments.

• Communication and Collaboration: Work with Senior technical management, direct reports, offshore resources, Product Owners, Designers and QA to ensure smooth working relationships and the productivity that can drive successful deliveries. 

• Strategy: Collaborate with business, product, design and tech leadership to drive business, product, and technical strategy and goals for your team.

• People management: Provide technical leadership, career development, coaching, and mentoring for engineers.

You must have

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent technical experience demonstrating strong CS fundamentals.

• At least 3 years of tech industry experience

• 2 years designing and building quality applications that scale and perform well.

• Proven track record managing delivery of complex projects

• Proven track record as a hands-on leader 

• Deep knowledge of Javascript, React, and Redux. 

• Experience using SQL databases (e.g. Postgresql, MySQL, Oracle) and back end services. 

• Familiarity with agile product development methodologies.

Extra Credit For

• Experience with tools we use every day:

• Front-end frameworks: React, Redux, Hooks

• Back-end frameworks: Node, Express, Java Dropwizard

• Tools and systems: Linux, AWS

• Data stores: Postgresql, S3

• Experience in AWS toolchains and devops

• Proven passion for building and learning: open source contributions, pet projects, self-education, Stack Overflow

• Experience in education or ed-tech