[Hiring] Senior Director, Development @Modern Campus

Role Description

The Senior Director of Development is accountable for engineering execution, technical stewardship, and organizational effectiveness for the teams building and operating the Modern Campus Connected Curriculum product suite, with the expectation that this scope may expand to include additional product lines over time. This role ensures predictable delivery, high-quality systems, and strong alignment with product strategy across its areas of responsibility.

This role requires deep technical fluency across Modern Campus technology stacks and active engagement in technical discussions across the R&D organization. The Senior Director contributes meaningfully to architectural design, technical tradeoff decisions, and long-term technical direction across both product and emerging platform domains.

In addition to product delivery, this role is responsible for guiding the evolution of foundational services and platform components that support Connected Curriculum and future Modern Campus products. The Senior Director is an active member of the Architecture Council, helping shape and drive platform architecture in alignment with long-term organizational goals.

This role also helps advance engineering effectiveness through thoughtful adoption of AI-assisted and agentic software development practices, including identifying opportunities to improve engineering leverage through agentic workflows, development harnesses, and automation patterns that accelerate delivery while maintaining strong standards for quality, security, and architectural integrity.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating complex, customer-facing SaaS platforms.
• 6+ years in engineering leadership roles with accountability for multiple teams or product areas.
• Proven ownership of delivery outcomes across a portfolio of work.
• Deep technical fluency and the ability to engage at a detailed level in architecture, system design, and technical tradeoff discussions.
• Strong working knowledge of modern web application stacks, including:
  • Frontend: React, TypeScript, modern frontend architectures
  • Backend: Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs
  • Data: Relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)
  • Cloud: AWS, containerized and CI/CD-based environments
• Experience designing or evolving platform-oriented architectures and shared services.
• Experience improving engineering effectiveness through AI-assisted development practices, workflow automation, or related SDLC innovation.
• Strong understanding of how to apply AI within the software development lifecycle in ways that preserve quality, security, maintainability, and team accountability.
• Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Product leadership and influence across organizational boundaries.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate technical risks and tradeoffs to executive audiences.

Requirements

• Experience leading engineering organizations across multiple products or product lines, or successfully scaling scope from a single product to a portfolio.
• Experience building or modernizing platforms that support multiple applications or domains.
• Familiarity with event-driven or distributed systems.
• Experience operating in environments balancing legacy systems with ongoing modernization.
• Experience leading adoption of agentic or AI-first software development practices, including development harnesses, workflow automation, or structured engineering copilots.
• Familiarity with operationalizing agentic SDLC patterns that support code generation, testing, review, documentation, and engineering productivity at scale.
• Background in EdTech, academic operations systems, or enterprise SaaS platforms.

Benefits

• The base salary range for this position is between $180,000-$200,000.
• Remote first workplace!
• Rewards and recognition programs.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• The ability to make a difference every day for universities trying to grow and students trying to learn!