Engineering Lead

Vista Higher Learning-posted 7 days ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • Boston, MA
101-250 employees
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As the Engineering Lead , you will serve as a central part of the software development team and join a small team of other Engineering Leads. You will be a hands-on leader that works closely with engineering leadership, business stakeholders, and oversees scrum teams focused on prioritizing, planning, and delivering enhancements in our learning platform.

  • Set clear expectations and align individual performance goals with organizational priorities; provide regular feedback, performance reviews, and career development support.
  • Mentor engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of continuous learning, professional growth, and technical excellence.
  • Actively contribute to building a high-performing engineering team by participating in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring processes.
  • Help shape a collaborative and inclusive team culture that supports innovation and long-term retention.
  • Lead and advocate across all phases of the software development lifecycle, including project planning, system architecture, implementation, release, and continuous optimization.
  • Proactively guide and oversee scrum teams, ensuring development plans are well-defined, timelines are realistic, and deliverables meet high standards of quality.
  • Collaborate with technology leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to influence technical strategy and inform scalable solution design.
  • Work effectively across teams to identify and implement opportunities for innovation, quality enhancements, and process improvements, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals.
  • Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences to align on progress, challenges, and outcomes.
  • Serve as a liaison between engineering and other departments to drive transparency, clarity, and shared accountability.
  • Conduct code reviews to uphold high standards in code quality, performance, testability, and accessibility, while reinforcing consistency with style guidelines and engineering best practices.
  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 5 to 7 years software engineering experience developing large-scale systems.
  • 1+ year of people management experience including supervising people, work, and providing performance feedback
  • Experience collaborating with other departments/teams
  • Excellent communication, listening and interpersonal skills to be able to actively listen to needs and respond to audience appropriately
  • Software Management and System Design
  • Deep hands-on experience leading full software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes, including project scoping, architectural design, agile execution, CI/CD pipeline management, release coordination, and post-deployment optimization.
  • Proven ability to take full ownership of product quality, delivery timelines, and release stability, ensuring that systems perform reliably in production environments.
  • Proven experience leading multiple scrum teams in agile environments, with demonstrated success in coordinating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog grooming using tools like Jira and Confluence.
  • Results-oriented with a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risks, driving projects from concept to completion with clear accountability and outcomes.
  • Demonstrated technical proficiency in architecting, building, and maintaining complex software systems demartysigned for scalability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Deep experience designing and deploying mission-critical applications in cloud environments such as AWS or GCP, including solutions built for high availability and performance optimization.
  • Expertise in SDLC best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality, maintainable code across teams.
  • Technical Knowledge and Proficiencies Languages/Frameworks: Ruby/Rails, JS, Vue
  • AWS or GCP for scalable, secure application deployment
  • Development Tools: SQL, Unix command-line, Git/GitHub
  • Collaboration & DevOps: Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence), CI/CD pipelines, geographically distributed team coordination
  • Master’s degree and certifications a plus.
  • Programming & Frameworks: Ruby on Rails highly preferred
  • LOCATION: Remote/Boston-Hybrid Position requires current residence within the United States of America. Ideal candidates will be located within close proximity to our Boston office location, be willing to work a 2-day in-office/3-day remote Hybrid schedule or within the US eastern standard time zone. Relocation assistance is not available.
  • life/health/dental/vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • educational assistance
  • commuter pass subsidies
  • generous employee referral bonuses
  • PTO
  • paid holidays
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