Great Minds
Senior Engineering Manager
🇺🇸
Remote - US
🕑
Full-Time
💰
$147K - $164K
💻
Software Engineering
🗓️
March 26th, 2026
K-5
Python
TypeScript
Edtech.com's Summary
Great Minds is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of over eight technical engineers and influence the strategic technical direction of their digital products. The role involves collaborating with product partners and technical leaders to improve engineering practices, managing software engineers, and ensuring quality product delivery that supports the company's educational mission.
Highlights
- Lead and manage a team of 8+ software engineers through mentoring, code reviews, and performance evaluations.
- Influence and oversee strategic technical decisions and software architecture in collaboration with product and technical leaders.
- Design and operate cloud-native applications, preferably on AWS, using NodeJS/TypeScript, React, Python, or comparable technologies.
- Communicate application architecture effectively to diverse audiences including product, business, and engineering teams.
- 7+ years experience as an individual contributor software engineer and 3+ years as an engineering manager required.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Focus on continuous improvement of engineering practices and product quality through collaboration.
- Expected base salary range: $147,000-$164,000, with potential adjustments based on experience and location.
- Works on digital products supporting knowledge-rich math, science, and ELA curricula used nationwide.
- Full-time position with background check requirement.
Senior Engineering Manager Full Description
Senior Engineering Manager
Remote
DC, District of Columbia, United States
Digital
DC, District of Columbia, United States
Digital
Job description
Who We Are
Great Minds is a high-growth, mission-driven organization founded by educators in 2007. As a for-profit, Public Benefit Corporation, we believe all students deserve access to meaningful, challenging content—and all teachers deserve tools that are intuitive, effective, and built for the realities of today’s classrooms.
We develop high-quality, knowledge-rich math, science and ELA curricula grounded in research and designed in collaboration with educators. Our materials reflect real classroom needs and are built to drive lasting student outcomes.
We are committed to usability, coherence, and practical implementation—supporting teachers not just through curriculum, but with professional learning, purposeful technology, and responsive service that enable strong adoption and impact.
What We Build
Our products—Eureka Math and Eureka Math², Wit & Wisdom, PhD Science, Geodes, and the newly launched Arts & Letters ELA—are trusted by thousands of schools and districts nationwide.
- Eureka Math is the most widely used math curriculum in the U.S., and is focused on balancing conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application.
- Wit & Wisdom® and Arts & Letters ELA™ anchor our reading strategy with content-rich, grade-level instruction that integrates literature, history, and the arts, grounded in the science of reading. Geodes® complements our reading suite with decodable texts that pair phonics with meaningful content to support early literacy.
- PhD Science is a hands-on K-5 Science program that sparks curiosity as students build enduring knowledge of how the scientific world works.
These programs reflect a shared belief in high expectations, joyful rigor, and deep respect for educators and students.
Where We’re Headed
Great Minds is entering a new stage of growth and product maturity. We are focused on building more connected, customer-informed experiences across the full educator journey—from curriculum to professional learning to platform and support.
Our long-term vision is to become a true partner in impact—not just delivering curriculum, but supporting educators in achieving outcomes at scale.
Job Purpose
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will be a senior level technical and people leader responsible for influencing the strategic technical direction, core processes and directly managing a team of 8+ deeply technical engineers to ensure our digital offerings empower the Great Minds mission. You will influence and oversee big picture system decisions while also being a hands-on leader who works alongside our lean team to solve complex technical challenges. You will effectively communicate the vision and plans to a wide variety of people including your team, internal stakeholders, and external partners.
Responsibilities
● Influence overall solutions strategy and ensure the team is building great products through continuous review and feedback and in collaboration with Product partners.
● Collaborate with other senior technical leaders and software engineers to continuously improve engineering practices and software architecture.
● Manage a team of software engineers through one-on-ones, code and documentation review, and performance reviews.
● Align software engineers to work that ensures quality delivery, engineer engagement, and overall management of platform knowledge across the team.
Job requirements
Requirements
● 7+ years experience as an individual contributor software engineer
● 3+ years experience as an engineering manager
● Expertise designing and operating software in a cloud-native application environment (AWS preferred)
● Ability to code application prototypes and reference architecture using one or more of the following languages/ frameworks (or comparable); NodeJS/ TypeScript, React, Python.
● Ability to effectively communicate application architecture (written and oral) to multiple audiences, including product, business, and software engineers.
● Ability to coach and mentor five to ten software engineers through one-on-ones, performance reviews, and other forms of feedback.
● Ability to manage the work of five to ten software engineers through giving them assignments that allows growth and the right level of support at the same time.
● Sense of intellectual curiosity and a passion for learning with a strong problem-solving mindset.
Required Education
Bachelor’s degree
Status
Full-time
Location
Remote
The expected base salary range for this position is $147,000-$164,000, however the offered salary may be higher or lower than the above range dependent on numerous factors including, but not limited to location, work experience, skills and internal equity considerations. The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.
A cover letter and resume are required to be considered for this position.
New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.
Any communication to applicants relating to the Great Minds hiring process will only come from email addresses with the domains greatminds.org or greatminds.recruitee.com. If in the course of the application or hiring process with Great Minds you are contacted through another domain, are requested to provide banking or other sensitive information, or you note any other suspicious activity, please contact security@greatminds.org
Great Minds is an equal opportunity employer. We will extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. Our policy reflects and affirms the organization’s commitment to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.
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