Set and execute the engineering strategy in alignment with company goals, product vision, and roadmap.
Lead, mentor, and manage four direct reports: Director of Engineering, Director of Quality Assurance, Director of IT/Cybersecurity, and Director of Development Operations.
Build and sustain a high-performing, remote-first engineering culture grounded in ownership, accountability and continuous improvement, with a shared technical understanding across frontend, backend, data, QA, and infrastructure teams.
Establish clear technical standards, architectural principles, and best practices across teams.
Drive deliberate improvement in delivery frequency through operational process improvements, modern tooling, reduced knowledge silos, and continuous learning.
Provide executive-level technical leadership for a fullstack platform including modern frontend applications and a distributed, microservices-based backend using GraphQL and RESTful APIs.
Oversee system architecture decisions to ensure scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
Ensure frontend architecture and development practices support rapid experimentation, accessibility, and high-quality user experiences for educators and students.
Guide the evolution of integrations with external systems (e.g., learning platforms, data providers, identity systems).
Provide technical oversight and strategic direction for the development of the company’s data warehouse, including schema design and data pipelines.
Ensure the platform remains robust, current, secure, and compliant with relevant education and data privacy standards.
Drive continuous improvement of a complex, production-grade CI/CD pipeline to support frequent, reliable deployments.
Coordinate engineering, devops, and quality assurance teams to explicitly minimize cycle time and operational toil.
Partner with DevOps to ensure strong cloud infrastructure practices on AWS, including cost optimization, observability, reliability, and disaster recovery.
Champion quality-first development practices in partnership with technology team leadership.
Support the technical execution of the data warehouse and BI initiative, ensuring engineering teams deliver scalable, well-modeled, and maintainable data assets.
Collaborate with data, analytics, and business stakeholders to ensure the warehouse and BI tools meet organizational reporting and decision-making needs.
Champion data-informed decision-making within engineering and across adjacent parts of the organization (such as the product and program success teams) by ensuring teams have timely, trusted access to analytics data.
Own the technology budget, including headcount planning, contractor spend, tooling, cloud infrastructure, and vendor costs.
Establish and execute a contracting and vendor management strategy that balances cost efficiency, quality, scalability, and long-term sustainability.
Oversee relationships with offshore development partners and other technology vendors, ensuring clear expectations, performance accountability, and alignment with company standards.
Communicate technical strategy, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to the CEO, executive team, and non-technical stakeholders.
Provide executive level leadership for a comprehensive data privacy and cyber security strategy, and ensure systematic implementation to maintain standards required for New Classrooms to achieve its goals.
Manage the Associate Director, Cyber Security & Help Desk.
Attract, retain, and develop top talent in a remote-first environment.
Design and evolve team structures to support growth and changing business needs.
Establish career paths, performance expectations, and succession plans within the department, inclusive of both employees and contractors.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive engineering experience
Proven experience leading teams building and operating large-scale, cloud-based software platforms
Deep familiarity with microservices architectures, APIs (GraphQL and REST), and system integrations
Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure and modern CI/CD practices
Experience managing engineering leaders (directors and/or senior managers)
Experience owning or significantly influencing technology budgets
Track record of delivering complex software systems in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Experience in ed-tech or another mission-driven, user-impact-focused domain
Hands-on background in software engineering
Familiarity with data warehousing concepts, ETL/ELT pipelines, and business intelligence tools
Familiarity with data privacy, security, and compliance considerations in education
Experience leading distributed, remote-first teams with offshore or outsourced contributors
Experience scaling engineering organizations and platforms through periods of growth.

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

microservices architectureAPIsGraphQLRESTAWSCI/CD practicesdata warehousingETLELTbusiness intelligence

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationstrategic directionteam buildingaccountabilitycontinuous improvementcollaborationperformance managementtalent development