Senior Engineering Manager, User Management

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Salary: (Salary not provided in the text)

Ellevation Education is a successful, rapidly-growing business dedicated to helping English Learners (ELLs) achieve their highest aspirations. They provide software solutions for school districts and are now expanding to directly serve students and their families. This role focuses on expanding Single Sign On (SSO) capabilities and improving authentication security across the product suite. The Engineering Manager will collaborate with a Product Manager to define and implement strategic goals.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Management Experience: 4+ years of experience managing a team of engineers
• Authentication Knowledge: Strong familiarity with authentication and authorization systems
• System Design: Experience designing, implementing, and operating complex systems

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Co-lead the overall effort with a Product Manager, collaboratively defining strategic goals and incremental outcomes.
• Engineering Growth: Work with engineers to understand their growth paths, provide feedback, and ensure they have challenging opportunities.
• Technical Stewardship: Help teams make sound technical tradeoffs, balancing short-term delivery with longer-term concerns.
• Technical Investment Advocacy: Identify and advocate for technical investments that teams believe are valuable.
• Risk Assessment: Comfortably weigh tradeoffs, generate options, and assess risks.
• Product Context: Build context around the product and team, charting a path for the team to navigate technical stewardship tradeoffs.
• Performance Management: Lead development, conduct regular 1:1’s and semi-annual reviews with reports.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with product and engineering peers to navigate ambiguous spaces.
• Long-Term Planning: Contribute to longer-term planning in the authentication and user management space.

Company Information

Ellevation Education has been serving the administrators, specialists, and teachers who support ELLs at public schools across the US for over 10 years. Currently, over 1,800 school districts use their software. They are investing in their product suite to directly serve students and their families.