Engineering Manager

Clever•San Francisco, OR

22d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Classroom Experience team at Clever builds the digital gateway to the classroom. As the Engineering Manager, you will lead the team responsible for our most visible products, including the Clever Portal—the daily starting point for millions of students and teachers. We are hiring a leader to help us expand our reach from the classroom into new frontiers like browser extensions and beyond, including future explorations of resource access outside our core products. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will manage the execution of our most visible user-facing products, hire and develop world-class engineering talent, and ensure that our technical strategy continues to provide simple, secure access to learning for everyone.

Requirements

3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with a proven ability to build high-impact teams — mentoring and coaching engineers at all levels while holding a consistently high bar.
5+ years of software development experience with strong fundamentals in full-stack architecture and system design, along with familiarity with how core authentication concepts extend to device-level login.
Familiarity with leveraging AI coding tools (such as Claude Code or Cursor) to enhance development workflow, productivity, and code quality.
A commitment to understand and prioritize the Clever engineering culture.
Experience with operational change management and process improvement.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to manage distributed, remote teams while building alignment across cross-functional stakeholders.
A deep commitment to building diverse and inclusive teams where every voice is heard.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing teams that build products for millions of concurrent users.
Experience managing business-critical services with strict uptime requirements (99.98%+).
Familiarity with our core technologies, including Go, Node.js, TypeScript, and React , managing services within the AWS Ecosystem, and native device technologies.

Responsibilities

Lead the team that scales our primary classroom user interfaces, connecting users to their learning applications through interfaces that work for kindergarteners in the classroom, through to administrators in the central office, and ensuring that the experience remains robust, delightful, and lightning-fast.
Manage the execution of our most visible user-facing products.
Hire and develop world-class engineering talent.
Ensure that our technical strategy continues to provide simple, secure access to learning for everyone.
Drive the execution of accessible UIs and next-generation APIs that drive expanded, simple, and secure access to learning applications.