Manager, Engineering (Workforce Edge)

Strayer Education, Inc.

130d • $116,300 - $174,500

About The Position

The Engineering Manager will lead a development team to deliver high-quality software solutions, mentor team members, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute on technical roadmaps. This role involves leading and mentoring a development team while contributing to technical decisions and project execution. The ideal candidate will have hands-on development experience and emerging leadership skills.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems - technical, product and people.
• Track record of employing high-quality architectural principles, and identifying and choosing between multiple architectural options.
• Working knowledge of database technologies such as SQL and relational database concepts.
• Basic familiarity with modern development languages and frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, or similar technologies.
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms like AWS or similar services.
• Working knowledge of project management tools such as Jira.
• Experience working with user-facing content management systems and websites is a plus.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Entrepreneurial mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to influence at all levels in the organization.
• Passion for solving problems in education sector is a plus.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with or leading remote team members.
• Experience implementing engineering best practices within a team environment.
• Experience contributing to team development and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and implementation of engineering solutions within your team.
• Lead and mentor a development team, potentially including remote team members.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to ensure security best practices are followed.
• Contribute to technical architecture decisions and help execute on engineering roadmaps.
• Document systems and processes while implementing best practice engineering methods.
• Support team growth and development initiatives.
• Provide regular project updates to leadership and help implement engineering best practices.
• Monitor team performance metrics and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Champion agile processes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans.
• Well-being incentives.
• Parental leave.
• Paid time off.
• Certain paid holidays.
• Tax saving accounts (FSA, HSA).
• 401(k) retirement benefit.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Tuition assistance.
• Entertainment and retail discounts.
• Overtime pay eligibility for non-exempt employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees