Director of Software Engineering
Director of Software Engineering
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About the Role
The Director of Software Engineering is a strategic leader reporting directly to the Senior Vice President Technology. This person manages the software engineering teams and ensures those teams have the training tools and resources necessary to create highquality digital educational products for K12 and higher education. This role defines the technical practices and implementation of scalable and modular technology solutions in alignment with product vision and at high standards of quality.
Responsibilities:
- Lead overall digital technology design development and implementation for digital products.
- Directly manage multiple software engineering managers ensuring they meet expectations and grow as contributors.
- Ensure the scalability security and stability of internal and external digital technology products.
- Set development and growth paths overall for the software engineering teams.
- Expose and manage technical risk and debt for digital technology products.
- Establish and maintain organizational best practices and standardized technologies for use in software development and quality assurance.
- Manage the relationships with external software engineering vendors.
- Work with management and product owners to shape and finalize release planning for digital products.
- Research and recommend improvements for the longterm sustainability and performance of digital products.
- Identify new and emerging technologies to enhance our digital products and practices.
- Ensure software engineering adherence to company policies and procedures.
- Perform other rolerelated duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree required with a focus in computer science management information systems or software engineering preferred
- 5 years of staff management required especially software engineering teams
- Minimum 7 years in programming or software development
- Strong problemsolving skills and availability at any time required to attend to living digital products
- Willing and able to travel when necessary
- Understanding the processes for budgeting project approval and production strongly preferred
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience developing for cloudbased applications (especially AWS) preferred
- Experience developing in C# preferred
- Experience supporting largerscale applications preferred
- Experience supporting quality assurance teams ideal
All of our Team Members:
- Possess exceptional listening writing and presentation skills
- Are resourceful and motivated to ask questions and solve problems
- Manage their time effectively
- Demonstrate commitment to product success with integrity a strong work ethic professionalism and a teamoriented attitude
About our Company
Big Ideas Learning a Larson Texts Company publishes K12 mathematics materials that enhance teachers instructional skills and resources while igniting students curiosity selfconfidence and deep understanding of mathematics. Our mission is to develop relevant rigorous and conceptually rich K12 instructional programs that enrich the mathematical journey for students educators and caregivers alike.
In 2024 we embraced a unified identity as Big Ideas Learning a Larson Texts Company to streamline our communication and reinforce our commitment to educational excellence and innovation.
We value our people and are committed to providing benefits that support their physical emotional financial and social wellbeing.
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- Competitive Healthcare Coverage
- Flexible PTO
- 10 Paid Holidays
- Paid Leave
- Tuition & Certification Reimbursement for Fulltime Employees
- Retirement Contributions
- Healthy Lifestyle Reimbursements
- Company Sponsored Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Company Sponsored Life Insurance
- A Robust Employee Assistance Program
Please visit our website to learn more about our company and our benefits.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and are committed to creating adiverse and inclusive company culture that does not discriminate against candidates and employees because of their disability sex race gender identity sexual orientation religion national origin age veteran status or any other protected status under the law.
We are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact the Human Resources Department at .
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
