[Hiring] Manager, Platform Development @Stride, Inc.

Role Description

The Manager of Platform Development partners with technical product management and other key business stakeholders to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and deliver products. The position aligns technology to business strategy and proactively drives a technical direction throughout the organization. The Manager will oversee the platform engineering teams responsible for our Curriculum Experience where our full-time students in K to 12 go to school every day.

• Partners with technical product management and other key business stakeholders to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and deliver products.
• Interfaces with other engineering groups and enterprise architecture; collaborates on integration projects, best practices, and the introduction of new technologies.
• Commits to roadmaps with capabilities and timelines, with a proven track record for new product and technology evaluation and introduction.
• Aligns technology to business strategy, and proactively drives a technical direction throughout the organization.
• Adopts a Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) methodology and institutes a frequent release cadence.
• Manages multiple team(s) consisting of Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, and DevOps, overseeing both full-time and contract resources.
• Leads and mentors engineering team members.
• Has an innovation mindset to product development, engineering, and development processes and provides thought leadership and information dissemination in this area.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field AND
• Three (3) years’ proven experience in software engineering leadership roles AND
• Strong engineering delivery and execution track record, with proven experience around the complete lifecycle of product development OR
• An equivalent combination of education and experience.

Requirements

• Ability to attract talent, inspire the organization, and develop the next generation of leaders.
• Ability to build trusting, meaningful relationships with peers, stakeholders, and partners.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including influencing technical decisions and direction, conflict management, negotiation, and presentations.
• Full commitment to customer satisfaction.
• Identify and drive innovation in products, technologies, processes, and solutions.
• Has high standards, results-oriented, pro-active and a commitment to delivering high-quality software on time and in budget.
• Leadership skills to include coaching/mentoring, critical thinking, facilitation, change leadership, and team development.
• Software development and overall automation including Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, build and test automation, orchestration/fulfillment, assurance, performance.
• Relevant experience in large-scale application architecture/design, middleware architecture, integration architecture, application deployment methods, automation, testing, compliance, auditing.
• Service-oriented and microservice architecture for highly available cloud-hosted applications and services in AWS.
• Understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices.
• Ability and desire to thrive in a proactive, high-pressure environment.
• Ability to clearly write technical specifications and strong estimating and planning skills.
• Experience with object-oriented design and design patterns.
• Solid understanding of source control and using it effectively.
• Experience working with offshore and distributed teams.
• Ability to pass a required background check.
• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.
• Ability to travel 10% of the time.

Benefits

• Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level.
• Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections.
• We anticipate the salary range to be $93,328.50 - $150,000.00.
• An individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors which include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions.
• Eligible employees may receive a bonus.
• Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.