Senior Engineering Manager
Course Hero is scaling! We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager. You get to combine leadership, use technical insight, and embrace product design thinking. You’ll report to our Engineering Director and lead/mentor a team of software engineers. Working with our product, design, and other engineering leaders, you will help us improve not only efficiency but also engagement.
This is a high transparency and impact role. Your work will have a direct impact on the company’s revenue. This role requires an eye for business, a focus on customer needs/wants/desires, and an obsession with data to optimize all parts of the growth loop. If you are passionate about user acquisition, conversion, monetization, and user-generated content, this role is for you.
On the technical front, we are migrating our platform to microservices. Join our hardworking team to build modern apps using React and Go microservices with a Full Stack hands-on focus. This is an outstanding opportunity to learn and grow with the company.
This is a full-time role located in Redwood City, CA.
Here are some ways you’ll make an impact!
- Provide inspirational leadership for a team of hardworking engineers
- Recruit, hire, and retain outstanding engineering teams
- Seek business problems with appropriate technical solutions
- Partner with product and provide insight
- Ensure that development projects have sound technical architecture and make use of appropriate technologies
- Demonstrate grit and break down sophisticated problems into relevant development plans
Are you our Senior Engineering Manager?
- 5+ years leadership or management of a team of software engineers
- Hands-on experience in modern web applications development with Full Stack
- Passion for the best software development practices
- Strong results-oriented drive and desire to achieve big things
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience
Benefits & Perks!
- Competitive salary, annual bonus, and RSUs
- Medical coverage, including full dental and vision
- Life and disability benefits
- 401(k) program (US) / retirement savings plan (Canada) with company match
- One month paid sabbatical after 5 years at the company
- Education reimbursement
- Professional development workshops & industry conferences
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible work schedule
- Social responsibility program (volunteer time off and donation matching)
- Annual wellness stipend
- Monthly tech stipend
- Annual family planning stipend
- Monthly snack boxes delivered to your door
- Cell phone allowance
For positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Other locations: IL, MA, NJ.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement (EEO)
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion within our company. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or ability status. We will ensure that individuals who are differently abled are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment as provided to other applicants or employees. Please contact us to request accommodation.
About Us:
Course Hero is on a mission to help students graduate, confident and prepared. The online learning platform offers over 60 million course-specific study resources created by and for students and educators, as well as 24/7 tutor help. More than 65,000 verified college educators use Course Hero to collaborate with other faculty and share resources to hone new strategies for instruction. Everyday, students, educators and tutors help more than 20 million students make every study hour count.
We have an awesome team and a truly engaging culture. We are customer-focused, collaborative, responsible, gritty, and we love to learn. Our bold mission is to help students graduate confident and prepared!
We are not the only ones that think we’re onto something big. Course Hero has been recognized as one of the 2021 Top 100 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area, Top 50 Best Paying Companies in the Bay Area, Top 100 Most Transparent Companies, and in the Top 50 Most Transformational Companies in Education Technology. Read up on some of our recent news coverage, blog, and learn more about us to see what it is like to work with our team.
Join us on our mission!