Engineering Manager

at  Miaplaza

THE COMPANY

Our mission: At Miaplaza, Inc., we are dedicated to delivering innovative educational experiences that drive our mission: Empowering children by providing them with excellent learning experiences so they can flourish and make the world a better place. Miaplaza’s main K-8 curriculum platform is Miacademy (miacademy.co), and our high school platform is MiaPrep (miaprep.com).
We’re growing rapidly! Our products are popular because we not only produce world-class educational content, but also develop the matching tech to deliver that content in a very engaging and customizable way. Therefore, we are expanding our team in all departments, including software engineering. You can learn more about Miaplaza and our culture on careers.miaplaza.com

REQUIREMENTS:

While we don’t expect you to write code in this role, we are looking for someone with the abilities of a Senior Software Engineer. This is to ensure you can understand the problems and trade offs involved in the work of your reports, are able to ask the right questions, and can make the right judgement calls where necessary. Therefore, we are looking for someone with the following profile:

• At least 7 years of software engineering experience, including in a senior role
• At least 2 years of management experience, including as manager of senior engineers and tech leads. Experience managing managers is a plus.
• Extensive full stack web development experience, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, backend development and SQL databases. Any experience with our tech stack (Vue.js, C#, Postgres) is a plus
• Extensive experience working cross-functionally with product management, UX and QA

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will be overall responsible for leading the Learning team and accountable for the team’s success as a whole. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Closely work with product management and UX designers to ensure our product strategy and roadmap is technically feasible and realistic.
• Deliver on the product roadmap by structuring the team appropriately, helping the team set realistic quarterly goals (OKRs), and keeping development on track. Identify technical and process-oriented issues that prevent the team from being more effective and work to resolve them.
• Help team members with their career development. Ensure appropriate mentoring is in place for everyone and personally coach the more experienced engineers and tech leads, while empowering them to independently lead their areas. Conduct performance reviews and provide actionable feedback to your reports.
• Be involved in hiring, including of senior engineers and managers, in order to steadily grow the team. We will likely have to double the size of our engineering department every year in order to really make an impact in the education sector.
• Influence the strategy of the overall engineering department by being part of the engineering leadership team.
• Show concern for your report’s well-being and cultivate an inclusive team culture in which everyone feels a sense of belonging and can be successful

You can hear our CEO, Johannes Ziegler, discuss our company in this podcast:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

You will be overall responsible for leading the Learning team and accountable for the team’s success as a whole. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Closely work with product management and UX designers to ensure our product strategy and roadmap is technically feasible and realistic.
• Deliver on the product roadmap by structuring the team appropriately, helping the team set realistic quarterly goals (OKRs), and keeping development on track. Identify technical and process-oriented issues that prevent the team from being more effective and work to resolve them.
• Help team members with their career development. Ensure appropriate mentoring is in place for everyone and personally coach the more experienced engineers and tech leads, while empowering them to independently lead their areas. Conduct performance reviews and provide actionable feedback to your reports.
• Be involved in hiring, including of senior engineers and managers, in order to steadily grow the team. We will likely have to double the size of our engineering department every year in order to really make an impact in the education sector.
• Influence the strategy of the overall engineering department by being part of the engineering leadership team.
• Show concern for your report’s well-being and cultivate an inclusive team culture in which everyone feels a sense of belonging and can be successful

While we don’t expect you to write code in this role, we are looking for someone with the abilities of a Senior Software Engineer. This is to ensure you can understand the problems and trade offs involved in the work of your reports, are able to ask the right questions, and can make the right judgement calls where necessary. Therefore, we are looking for someone with the following profile:

• At least 7 years of software engineering experience, including in a senior role
• At least 2 years of management experience, including as manager of senior engineers and tech leads. Experience managing managers is a plus.
• Extensive full stack web development experience, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, backend development and SQL databases. Any experience with our tech stack (Vue.js, C#, Postgres) is a plus
• Extensive experience working cross-functionally with product management, UX and Q