[Hiring] Director, Software Engineering @Vector Solutions

Role Description

Vector Solutions is seeking a senior Technical Owner to lead the engineering squad behind Vector Evaluations+ and Vector PD Tracking, the core of our K-12 Professional Growth Suite. School districts across the country rely on these products to run teacher and staff evaluations and to schedule, track, and approve professional development. You will own the technical strategy for both products:

• Write high quality code across the Evaluations+ and PD Tracking stack: Java backend services, React front end, and MySQL database.
• Find and squash bugs, and drive root-cause fixes for recurring production issues reported by districts.
• Collaborate within your team to provide feedback via code reviews.
• Own the long-term technical roadmap for Evaluations+ and PD Tracking, including a multi-year strategy for migrating the legacy Jakarta EE/JSP platform to the go-forward Spring Boot, React, and MySQL stack while it remains in active use by districts.
• Set the integration strategy for Vector Training, Canvas LMS, and district HR and student information systems, including data imports, rostering, and single sign-on.
• Ensure the platform protects sensitive educator and student data in line with FERPA, state student data privacy laws, and district security requirements.
• Plan capacity and reliability around the K-12 calendar, including peak evaluation windows and back-to-school, and schedule major releases accordingly.
• Work with Product, Support, and Customer Success to turn district feedback and escalations into technical priorities.
• Contribute to and help lead the Architecture and DevOps guilds.
• Responsible for delivery of services and meeting business goals and performance targets.
• Design interaction with other services across squads and act as the point of contact.
• Accountable for software architecture across Evaluations+ and PD Tracking, and for how both products fit into the broader Professional Growth Suite.
• Responsible for technical coaching of Dev, QA and Test Automation engineers on the squad, and for mentoring emerging technical leads.
• Partner with the Squad PO to ensure decisions are made with the greater business goals and district needs in mind, and ensure the appropriate cross-squad SMEs (such as Vector Training, platform, and security) are pulled into the decision process.
• Communicate major technical decisions, risks, and changes to appropriate levels of management.
• Lead the hiring process for the squad and grow the team as the products scale.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Build and lead a cohesive, skilled, and effective team.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot (backend), React (frontend), and MySQL (schema design, query tuning).
• Design and support third-party integrations, including REST APIs, data imports/exports, and single sign-on (SAML, OAuth).
• Strong knowledge of data privacy and security for sensitive applications.
• Collaborative and proactive in improving processes, workflows, and communication.
• Adapt quickly to new languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Drive adoption of software engineering best practices.
• Demonstrate strong technical and analytical leadership.
• Excellent in time management, goal setting, and prioritization.
• Proven ability to build and maintain a team and bring a product to market.
• Record of driving technology improvements through innovation.
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years in development teams; 5+ years leading/managing teams.
• Experience with large-scale SaaS applications.
• Experience in K-12 edtech, HR, performance, or learning management software.
• Knowledge of FERPA and state student privacy laws.
• Integrations with LMS (Canvas), and familiarity with LTI and OneRoster.
• Led incremental migration of a legacy JSP app to Spring Boot and React during active use.

Benefits

• Friendly, open, and casual work environment.
• Comprehensive benefits package effective the first of the month after hire.
• Matching 401(k) retirement plan.
• Healthy work-life balance with flexible work arrangements and generous time off.
• Generous referral incentive program.
• Tuition Reimbursement Program.
• Pet Insurance.
• OnePass Gym/Wellness Discount Program.
• Calm Health-Employee Membership.
• Company social events.
• Employee Resource Groups.
• Philanthropic opportunities.

Company Description

Vector Solutions is a leading software company delivering an AI-enabled, performance platform powering safe, compliant, and efficient operations for the public, educational, and commercial sectors. We bring training, safety, and workforce operations together to boost readiness, reduce risk, and drive high-performance results for the everyday heroes who count on us.