Senior Engineering Manager Jobs

Sophia is an industry-leading provider of low-cost, self-paced online general education courses that are transferable for college credit.

We are looking for a senior engineering manager to join our team to help us build and transform our ed tech products to best meet the needs of our learners and partners.

The ideal candidate will have prior engineering management experience (managing engineers in multiple geographies), is a proven problem solver, has a ‘get things done’ mentality, and is deeply obsessed with users and eliminating their pain points.

• Own engineering operational excellence, including creation of and monitoring metrics for continuous improvement.
• Assist in creating and managing adoption of IT governance controls across various technical applications.
• Ensure security and integrity of all information systems and data.
• Provide regular updates to senior management and peers about ongoing and future projects.
• Influence and drive technical architecture and key technology decisions to build for the long-term, while managing roadmaps and business needs.
• Build out additional engineering teams and capabilities as needed in alignment with business objectives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Define, launch, and scale engineering and technical solutions across multiple teams.
• Champion agile processes.
• Document systems and processes while implementing best practice engineering methods.
• Manage engineering teams and external vendors across multiple geographies and time zones.

• Passion for solving problems in education sector is a plus.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Track record of employing high-quality architectural principles, and identifying and choosing between multiple architectural options.
• Solid understanding of Database technologies such as SQL, PostgreSQL, and relational database schema design.
• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails (direct experience is a plus).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to influence at all levels in the organization.
• Experience working with user-facing content management systems and websites is a plus.
• Familiarity with AWS (direct experience is a plus).
• Demonstrated ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems - technical, product and people.
• Proficiency with tools such as Jira (advanced proficiency is a plus).
• Entrepreneurial mindset.

• 1 to 2 years of experience defining and scaling best-in-class engineering principles across multiple engineering teams.
• 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
• 1 to 2 years of experience managing offshore development team(s).
• 1 to 2 years of experience building world-class engineering teams.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or a related field (Preferred)