Senior Engineering Manager

Who We Are

Great Minds is a high-growth mission-driven organization founded by educators in 2007. As a for-profit Public Benefit Corporation we believe all students deserve access to meaningful challenging contentand all teachers deserve tools that are intuitive effective and built for the realities of todays classrooms.

We develop high-quality knowledge-rich math science and ELA curricula grounded in research and designed in collaboration with educators. Our materials reflect real classroom needs and are built to drive lasting student outcomes.

We are committed to usability coherence and practical implementationsupporting teachers not just through curriculum but with professional learning purposeful technology and responsive service that enable strong adoption and impact.

What We Build

Our productsEureka Math and Eureka Math² Wit & Wisdom PhD Science Geodes and the newly launched Arts & Letters ELAare trusted by thousands of schools and districts nationwide.

• Eureka Math is the most widely used math curriculum in the U.S. and is focused on balancing conceptual understanding procedural fluency and application.

• Wit & Wisdom and Arts & Letters ELA anchor our reading strategy with content-rich grade-level instruction that integrates literature history and the arts grounded in the science of reading. Geodes complements our reading suite with decodable texts that pair phonics with meaningful content to support early literacy.

• PhD Science is a hands-on K-5 Science program that sparks curiosity as students build enduring knowledge of how the scientific world works.

These programs reflect a shared belief in high expectations joyful rigor and deep respect for educators and students.

Where Were Headed

Great Minds is entering a new stage of growth and product maturity. We are focused on building more connected customer-informed experiences across the full educator journeyfrom curriculum to professional learning to platform and support.

Our long-term vision is to become a true partner in impactnot just delivering curriculum but supporting educators in achieving outcomes at scale.

Job Purpose

As a Senior Engineering Manager you will be a senior level technical and people leader responsible for influencing the strategic technical direction core processes and directly managing a team of 8 deeply technical engineers to ensure our digital offerings empower the Great Minds mission. You will influence and oversee big picture system decisions while also being a hands-on leader who works alongside our lean team to solve complex technical challenges. You will effectively communicate the vision and plans to a wide variety of people including your team internal stakeholders and external partners.

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.

Required Education

Bachelors degree

Status

Full-time

Location

Remote

The expected base salary range for this position is $147000-$164000 however the offered salary may be higher or lower than the above range dependent on numerous factors including but not limited to location work experience skills and internal equity considerations. The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.

A cover letter and resume are required to be considered for this position.

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.

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Great Minds is an equal opportunity employer. We will extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race religion color sex (including pregnancy sexual orientation and gender identity) national origin disability age genetic information or any other status protected under applicable federal state or local laws. Our policy reflects and affirms the organizations commitment to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.

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