Software Engineering Manager

BIG IDEAS LEARNING A LARSON TEXTS COMPANY-posted 1 day ago
Full-time • Manager
Erie, PA
11-50 employees
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The Software Engineering Manager is responsible for leading a cross-functional engineering team focused on developing and maintaining core components of our digital learning platform. This role provides hands-on technical leadership, supports engineers through day-to-day development activities, and ensures the team delivers high-quality, scalable, and secure software for our next-generation digital learning platform. The manager oversees execution across sprints, guides technical decision-making, and ensures that engineering work aligns with defined product and architectural requirements.

  • Manage and coach software engineers to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery.
  • Oversee development workflows, code quality, and engineering best practices.
  • Partner with Product, UX, Data, and Architecture teams to translate requirements into actionable plans.
  • Manage AWS-based cloud solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and secure architecture.
  • Support sprint planning, technical decisions, and cross-team alignment.
  • Maintain project timelines, resolve risks, and drive continuous improvement in tooling and processes.
  • Collaborate with management and product owners to shape and finalize release planning for digital products.
  • Responsible for ensuring that team members and third-party vendors receive and work from product specifications and requirements and evaluate work based on those specs.
  • Research and recommend improvements for the long-term sustainability and performance of digital products.
  • Responsible for software development by team members and, as necessary, do hands-on development work.
  • Conform with and abide by all regulations, policies, work procedures, and instructions.
  • Ultimately shares responsibility with the Director of technology for the overall quality of products in the marketplace and internally.
  • Cultivate a collaborative culture of shared ownership that empower teams with a shared sense of responsibility and champion blameless collaboration with collective accountability.
  • Leads a team of developers, testers, and other technical team members, including setting expectations and measuring success, supporting individual and team growth, and ensuring team best practices are followed.
  • Communicate with co-workers, management, customers, vendors, and others in a courteous and professional manner.
  • Perform other role-related duties as assigned.
  • work effectively, respectfully, and efficiently with internal and external colleagues.
  • demonstrate a determination to succeed and a commitment to quality.
  • are adaptable and resourceful; they learn quickly and adjust to change easily.
  • think creatively and lean into innovation when it comes to understanding customers and solving problems.
  • believe in our mission, share our values, and model ethical behavior.
  • Bachelor’s degree required, with a focus in computer science, management information systems, or software engineering preferred.
  • 3+ years of staff management required, especially software engineering teams delivering data projects including data pipelines, ETL processes, and other data engineering workflows.
  • Minimum 5 years in programming or software development; strong application development skills and sufficient exposure to Microsoft .NET and Python required.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and availability at any time required to attend to “living” digital products.
  • Strong understanding of Agile project management required, including experience implementing Agile practices and a willingness to be hands-on when needed, including contributing directly to coding tasks.
  • Possesses functional expertise; can effectively share knowledge, train and coach others, and identify and resolve functional issues.
  • Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills; able to build relationships, influence others, and give and receive effective feedback.
  • Strong organizational and analytical skills; able to make data-driven decisions, prioritize tasks, manage deadlines, delegate, and utilize resources efficiently.
  • Able to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality in complex situations; comfortable holding others accountable for the same.
  • Willing and able to travel when necessary.
  • Understanding the processes for budgeting, project approval, and production is strongly preferred.
  • Strong AWS solution design and cloud architecture experience.
  • Database management and data modeling (SQL/NoSQL).
  • Experience designing system and application architecture.
  • Proficiency in Python and modern backend frameworks.
  • Hands-on CI/CD pipeline development and DevSecOps practices.
  • Agile and Kanban delivery experience, including team leadership.
  • Ability to manage scalable, secure, and well-documented codebases.
  • Competitive Healthcare Coverage
  • Flexible PTO
  • 10 Paid Holidays
  • Paid Leave
  • Tuition & Certification Reimbursement for Full-time Employees
  • Retirement Contributions
  • Healthy Lifestyle Reimbursements
  • Company Sponsored Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Company Sponsored Life Insurance
  • A Robust Employee Assistance Program
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