Director of Engineering

About the Role

Lead multiple product engineering squads at a growth-stage K-12 education technology company building tools for school scheduling. You will guide the product engineering organization, contributing hands-on while helping teams deliver reliable, scalable features for educators and students.

What You'll Do

• Lead multiple product squads, managing engineers and driving delivery across scheduling, reporting, and elementary school product areas.

• Contribute code, review work, and pair with engineers while setting a direction that shifts toward greater leadership over time.

• Make technical architecture decisions to support a robust and scalable platform.

• Work with Product, customer success, and other partners to set squad goals and align engineering priorities with business outcomes.

• Deliver high-value features, including advances in AI-powered capabilities, in time for the school scheduling cycle.

What We're Looking For

• At least 5 years of engineering experience and 2 to 3 or more years managing multiple engineering teams, ideally including teams of 6 or more engineers.

• Experience scaling teams and, ideally, managing engineering managers.

• Hands-on technical ability, including code reading, review, and development, with strong backend architecture experience.

• Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, AWS, and MongoDB, or the ability to ramp up on a new stack.

• Experience in a startup or high-growth environment, with strong prioritization, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Background in optimization or scheduling domains, such as ride-hailing, e-commerce, or shipping logistics, and a mathematics or electrical engineering background.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation is $210,000 to $240,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

Remote within the United States. Primary location: Boston, United States.