Software Engineering Manager

Pearson•Hoboken, NJ

5d•$150,000 - $190,000•Remote

About The Position

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of 5–8 software engineers on the Enterprise Learning & Skills (ELS) engineering team. The team builds, scales, and evolves a large-scale, API-driven platform used globally to issue and verify digital credentials. This is a people- and delivery-focused leadership role: you'll own the day-to-day health, output, and growth of the team, ensuring work stays on track, meets our standards for quality and consistency, and delivers what the organization and our customers expect. You'll allocate and prioritize daily work, clear blockers, clarify requirements, and give real-time feedback so engineers can do their best work. You'll be the first line of support when coding or system issues surface, deciding what the team can resolve and what needs to be escalated to senior engineering leadership. You'll also own onboarding and skill development for new team members, and you'll partner closely with Product, Customer Success, and external vendors to turn requirements into reliable, well-sequenced delivery. You don't need to write production code, but you do need enough technical depth to guide design discussions, hold the team to strong engineering practices, and ask the right questions.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software development experience and 2+ years managing or formally leading a software engineering team
Working familiarity with our core stack (Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, PostgreSQL) and with API management, cloud computing, DevOps practices, and software design, with enough technical acumen to guide discussions and evaluate trade-offs
Proven track record of running a team's daily delivery reliably: consistent adherence to coding and QA standards, accurate and timely task completion, and dependable schedules
Strong problem-solving skills, with a habit of identifying challenges early, evaluating options, and driving practical resolutions
Exceptional collaboration and communication, equally effective with engineers, non-technical stakeholders, and external vendors
Experience onboarding and developing engineers, with evidence of shortened ramp-up times and growing team capability
Sound judgment about when to resolve issues locally and when to escalate, and a record of escalating clearly and promptly
Adaptability and a commitment to continuous learning as the team, platform, and tooling evolve
Strong understanding of information and data security fundamentals and an ethical, customer-centric approach to decisions
Comfortable using AI tools in your own work and confident guiding a team that uses them for coding, testing, documentation, and learning.
Set expectations for how AI-generated output is validated, help the team build sound judgment about when to rely on it and when not to, and stay curious about how AI agents and automated AI can responsibly improve productivity and quality across the team.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on background as a Rails, React, or full-stack engineer before moving into management
Experience designing, deploying, or operating production workloads on AWS and Azure, and familiarity with CI/CD and automated deployment practices
Experience managing work delivered in partnership with third-party or vendor teams
Experience with resilience planning, incident management, or on-call processes for customer-facing systems
Experience with distributed or service-oriented systems and asynchronous, event-driven communication between services
Experience introducing AI agents or automated AI tooling into an engineering team's workflow

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and support a team of 5–8 engineers building Ruby on Rails services and React frontends, owning the team's well-being, performance, and immediate output
Plan and allocate daily and sprint work, monitor progress against delivery schedules, and keep projects on track through clear priorities and timely course corrections
Troubleshoot obstacles, clarify requirements, and coordinate handoffs across engineers, teams, and vendors so blockers are resolved quickly and together
Triage bugs and production issues with attention to detail, minimizing disruption to the customers who rely on our platform
Maintain standards of quality and consistency within our defined processes, including coding and QA standards, code review coverage, test thoroughness, and team documentation
Give real-time, constructive feedback; run regular 1:1s; and celebrate team milestones while openly recognizing individual contributions
Own the onboarding and skill development of new team members, reducing ramp-up time and onboarding errors
Identify and introduce process improvements at the team level, within defined limits, and escalate unresolved or higher-impact issues to senior engineering leadership in a timely way
Champion the responsible use of AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing, documentation, and debugging across the team
Uphold secure, ethical, and resilient engineering practices, including data and information security expectations, across everything the team ships