McGraw Hill
Lead Software Engineer
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $150K - $176K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ August 11th, 2025
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Edtech.com's Summary
McGraw Hill is hiring a Lead Software Engineer to lead and build a diverse engineering team, drive the technical vision, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop innovative educational products. The role involves overseeing product design, development, and maintenance while ensuring high quality, performance, and availability.
Highlights
- Lead and manage a geographically distributed team of engineers.
- Coach team on best practices and provide technical feedback.
- Define team vision including architecture, processes, and technology decisions.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, sales, and marketing to build customer-focused products.
- Ensure end-to-end delivery, quality, and performance of products.
- Make data-driven decisions and lead production incident responses.
- Required technical skills include Java, Spring framework, Angular, RESTful services, microservices architecture, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred), AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL, distributed caching, and security best practices.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or 8+ years of application development experience required; 2+ years managing distributed teams preferred.
- Experience with cloud-native development, product analytics tools, observability platforms, and chaos engineering techniques.
- Compensation ranges from $150,000 to $176,000 annually, with potential bonuses and benefits.
Lead Software Engineer Full Description
Lead Software Engineer
- United States
- Technology
- Digital Platform Group
- Remote
Overview
Impact the Moment
McGraw Hill Connect is a course management and adaptive learning solution that enables millions of learners to achieve their full potential. In this role, you will be expanding Connect to put new learning tools in the hands of instructors and learners.
In this role, you will be the linchpin of the product – the technical expert for the product, sales, marketing and business teams and the product expert for the technical teams. By combining intimate knowledge of customers, strong analytical skills, and technical acumen, you will drive a holistic product vision that energizes your teammates and delights your customers.
As an education innovation company, we're proud to play our part by inspiring learners around the world. If you bring your curiosity, we'll help you grow in a collaborative environment where everyone shares a passion for success.
Even if you are not currently looking for a change, we encourage you to apply now and speak to the hiring manager to learn about the opportunity.
How can you make an impact?
In this role, you will be the linchpin of the product – the technical expert for the product, sales, marketing and business teams and the product expert for the technical teams. By combining intimate knowledge of customers, strong analytical skills, and technical acumen, you will drive a holistic product vision that energizes your teammates and delights your customers.
As an education innovation company, we're proud to play our part by inspiring learners around the world. If you bring your curiosity, we'll help you grow in a collaborative environment where everyone shares a passion for success. Even if you are not currently looking for a change, we encourage you to apply now and speak to the hiring manager to learn about the opportunity.
This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.
What you'll be doing:
Impact the Moment
McGraw Hill Connect is a course management and adaptive learning solution that enables millions of learners to achieve their full potential. In this role, you will be expanding Connect to put new learning tools in the hands of instructors and learners.
In this role, you will be the linchpin of the product – the technical expert for the product, sales, marketing and business teams and the product expert for the technical teams. By combining intimate knowledge of customers, strong analytical skills, and technical acumen, you will drive a holistic product vision that energizes your teammates and delights your customers.
As an education innovation company, we're proud to play our part by inspiring learners around the world. If you bring your curiosity, we'll help you grow in a collaborative environment where everyone shares a passion for success.
Even if you are not currently looking for a change, we encourage you to apply now and speak to the hiring manager to learn about the opportunity.
How can you make an impact?
In this role, you will be the linchpin of the product – the technical expert for the product, sales, marketing and business teams and the product expert for the technical teams. By combining intimate knowledge of customers, strong analytical skills, and technical acumen, you will drive a holistic product vision that energizes your teammates and delights your customers.
As an education innovation company, we're proud to play our part by inspiring learners around the world. If you bring your curiosity, we'll help you grow in a collaborative environment where everyone shares a passion for success. Even if you are not currently looking for a change, we encourage you to apply now and speak to the hiring manager to learn about the opportunity.
This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.
What you'll be doing:
- Build and lead a diverse and geographically distributed team of Engineers
- Coach the team on best practices, review solutions and provide feedback
- Participate in development and implementation of the vision for the team, spanning architecture, dependencies, engineering process, and technology decisions
- Work with product managers, designers, sales and marketing managers to build products that the customers love to use
- Be responsible for end-to-end delivery (tech design, development and testing) and maintenance of our products
- Make sure our products have highest quality, performance and availability
- Make data driven decisions
- Leading quick, effective responses to production issues, and conducting post-incident reviews / RCAs to learn and improve.
- Collaborating with SREs to define Service Level Objectives (SLOs), SLAs.
What you'll need to be successful?
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or 8+ years of equivalent application development experience is required.
- 2+ years of experience managing distributed teams is preferred.
- Product engineering background to support development of B2B and B2C products
- Ability to align technology decisions with business objectives and define the technical direction for the team.
- Experience building responsive, accessible and high-performance web-based products
- Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects
- Strong communication skills to work with cross functional teams
- Desire and experience to build products that delight the customers
- Experience with one or more observability platforms to monitor health of the products
- Knowledge of testing frameworks, code optimization, and security best practices.
- Cloud native development experience
- Experience working with one of more Product Analytics tools
- Experience in chaos engineering techniques to validate the platform’s ability to withstand unexpected failures.
- Have the ability to work in a fast-paced software release environment, as part of a team or individually.
What are the required technical skills?
- Java
- Expertise in Spring (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Transactions etc)
- Expertise in Angular for building scalable SPAs with strong TypeScript and RxJS skills.
- RESTful Services and Microservices Architecture
- CI / CD pipeline (GitHub Actions preferred)
- AWS services
- Skilled in creating Docker containers and orchestrating workloads
- Proficiency with databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle, RDS etc.
- Distributed Caching
- Tomcat
- Strong knowledge of monitoring and logging
- Proficient in OAuth, JWT, and OWASP best practices for application security.
- Experience with Terraform (Good to have)
Why McGraw Hill?
The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively designing content that will build the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights.
The pay range for this position is between $150-$176,000 annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings
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