95 Percent Group
VP, Software Engineering
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Remote - US
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Full-Time
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$225K
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Software Engineering
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July 20th, 2026
K-12
K-5
SCRUM
Edtech.com's Summary
95 Percent Group is hiring a VP of Software Engineering to lead the unification of multiple platforms into a modern architecture and build a global AI-first engineering organization. The role involves driving the transition to a Product Operating Model, enhancing engineering performance through AI tools, and ensuring platform reliability and security, while closely collaborating with product and customer experience teams.
Highlights
- Lead technical strategy to unify multiple products using generative AI and cloud-native architecture.
- Increase engineering team velocity and quality by embedding AI-assisted development tools.
- Build and scale a global, agile engineering organization and transition to outcome-based cross-functional teams.
- Mentor engineering leaders to ensure organizational growth and succession planning.
- Establish data-driven operational excellence using metrics like DORA and cycle time.
- Maintain platform reliability, security, and performance with defined SLAs and incident management.
- Make architecture, infrastructure, and build-vs-buy decisions to modernize platforms for scale.
- Partner with product management to align roadmap priorities with customer and business needs.
- Define and maintain data privacy and responsible AI guardrails collaboratively with Legal, Security, and IT.
- Qualifications include 15+ years in software engineering, deep Agile/Scrum expertise, and experience leading global teams through organizational and technical transformations.
VP, Software Engineering Full Description
VP, Software Engineering
Location:
Remote, US
Position Type:
Full-time
Salary range:
$225,000 - $225,000
Position Summary:
95 Percent Group is looking for a VP of Software Engineering to lead the software engineering organization. You will lead the unification of multiple platforms — including recently acquired products — into one modern architecture, build an AI-first, agile, global engineering organization, and help drive the organizational transformation to the Product Operating Model. You will get close to customers to understand their problems, then turn that understanding into technology that drives real value. You will lead as an engineer first — and scale your impact by growing the people and systems around you — with genuine empathy for the teachers and classrooms we serve.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap to unify multiple products into a single platform,utilizinggenerative AI technologies, cloud-native architecture, and modern integrationpatterns.
- Increase velocity,throughputand quality from the engineering teams by embedding AI-assisted development tools into the engineering workflow, and partner with Product Management toidentifywhere AI creates real value for our customers.
- Build and scale a high-performing,global, agile engineering organization and co-lead (with the VP, Product Management)theorganization's shift to the Product Operating Model, built around cross-functional teams with accountability for outcomes.
- Build a deep bench of engineeringleadersthrough mentorship,growthand succession planning, ensuring leadership continuity as the organizationcontinues toscale.
- Drive operational excellence byestablishinga data first approach to metrics (DORA metrics, cycle time, quality, adoption, business outcomes) in all areas of engineering, to prove the operating model and development efforts are working and driving value for our customers.
- Own the reliability of the platform in production — uptime, SLAs, incident management, and on-call practices — ensuring theplatformsare available,secureand performant.
- Make architecture, build-vs-buy, and infrastructure decisions needed to modernize the platform for scale, security, reliability, and speed of iteration.
- Partner closely with VP, Product Management team to build andmaintainthe roadmap, ensuring all priorities map to real customer and business needs.
- Define andmaintaindata privacy andresponsible-AIguardrails in partnership with Security, Legal, and IT.
- Represent engineering in company-wide strategic planning, M&A technical diligence, and company-wide updates on strategy; report on engineering health, roadmap progress, and platform modernization to theETon a regularcadence.
- Partnerclosely with CustomerExperienceand Supportto ensure our customers have thesupportthey need when they need it.
- Manage engineering budget, vendor and tooling decisions, and workforce planning responsibly.
Skills and Qualifications:
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, ora relatedfield, or equivalent experience.
- 15+ years in software engineering with 8+ years in senior engineering leadership positions, owning a full, global engineering organization.
- Experience building and leading globally distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones.
- Direct experience leading an organization through adoption of Product Operating Model or an equivalent shift from project-based to outcome-based ways of working.
- Deep fluency in Agile/Scrum at scale.
- A track recordof consolidating or modernizing multiple platforms into one, throughrearchitecture,replatforming, or post-acquisition integration.
- Familiarity with accessibilitystandardsand experience building compliant, inclusive software for K-12 or similar markets
- Demonstrated experience building an AI-first engineering culture, includinguseof AI coding tools and delivery of AI/ML-powered product features.
- Strong technical backgroundsufficientto be credible on architecture, cloud infrastructure, data, and security decisions.
- Excellent communication skills and the presence tooperateand work with the Executive team.
Preferred
- Experience in K-12 education technology, ideally with products used directly by classroom teachers and elementary (K-5) students.
- Experienceoperatinginside a private-equity-backed or growth-stage company.
- Familiarity with the science of reading, structured literacy, or evidence-based instructional design.
Benefits:
- We offer hybrid and fully remote roles depending on the position and where candidates live
- Laptop and any necessary equipment to perform the dutiesrequired
- Monthly technology stipend
- Professional development support – tuition reimbursement program
- BCBS Medical and Vision with employee premiums
- FREE Dental
- FREE basic life insurance policy and short and long-term disability programs
- 401k with generous company match and immediate vesting
- PTO policy that startsaccruingupon hire up to a maximum level based on tenure and does not expire
- 9 Holidays, 3 Floaters and a 4-day Winter Closure between Christmas and New Year
- 1 Paid Volunteer Day annually
- Donate a PTO Day program for colleagues in need
- 3 Weeks Paid Parental Leave after 12-months of employment for birth,adoptionor foster placement
- Discretionary Bonus Eligible
Company Description:
95 Percent Group is a leader in literacy intervention instruction for pre-K through grade 8 across the U.S. The company offers professional development training for teachers and administrators as well as print and online products to assist teachers with helping students who struggle with reading. 95 Percent Group's comprehensive educational consulting, professional development, diagnostic assessments, and instructional materials help schools deliver intervention instruction that consistently and significantly increase reading achievement.
The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Lincolnshire, IL (northwest suburban Chicago). Its customers are primarily school districts across the U.S., and they are served by consultants who travel for on-site training as well as through online training. The company has over 30 employees, with about half based in Chicago and half located in other states.
95 Percent Group has a fully engaged and highly committed leadership team who cares deeply about our mission. We've hired the best from inside and outside the industry. This is a tremendous opportunity to join a company positioned for continued significant growth. An added plus is knowing that what you're doing every day is making a significant difference in children's lives. Come work with a group of smart, fun, passionate professionals who value creativity, innovation, and making an impact.
95 Percent Group, LLC is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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