Job description
Over the last 10+ years, Ellevation Education has built a thriving business serving the administrators, specialists, and teachers who support English Learners (ELL) at public schools across the US. Today, over 1,800 school districts use our software to manage their EL programs and drive key outcomes for students. We are a successful, rapidly-growing business with a real mission—helping ELLs achieve their highest aspirations.
In addition to our solutions for school district staff, we are currently making a series of investments across our product suite to serve both students and their families directly. To support these new user groups, Ellevation is working to make login even more secure and seamless. As the Engineering Manager, you will play a key role in expanding Single Sign On (SSO) capabilities and continuing to improve our authentication security posture across the entire product suite.
As an engineering manager, you’ll co-lead the overall effort alongside a product manager – the two of you collaboratively deciding how to work backward from overall strategic goals to incrementally achieve specific outcomes in your space.
As a manager, you’ll work with all the engineers on your teams to understand their growth paths, ensure they have good challenges ahead of them, and steadily provide them useful, direct feedback. You’ll also play a role in discussions that help guide the overall evolution of Ellevation’s engineering team.
Although you may do little day-to-day coding, you will play a crucial role in the technical work in your space in at least two core ways. First, you will help ensure your teams are making sound technical tradeoffs, steadily balancing short-term delivery against longer-term concerns. Second, you will work with your teams to identify and advocate for technical investments – work the engineers believe to be valuable but which is not being requested from outside the team.
To do your job well, you will need to be comfortable weighing tradeoffs, generating options, and assessing risks.
Impact you’ll have:
- 1 month - Build context around the product and team, begin to chart a path for the team to navigate the technical stewardship tradeoffs.
- 3 months - Lead development, lead regular 1:1’s and semi-annual reviews with reports, and deepen partnership with product, and peers across the other products and teams
- 6 months - Empower engineers on the team to a greater sense of ownership for development, and collaborate with product and engineering peers to navigate the ambiguous space.
- 12 months - Contribute to longer-term planning in the authentication and user management space
About you:
- You have 5+ years of software engineering experience
- You have 4+ years of experience managing a team of engineers
- You have a strong familiarity with authentication and authorization systems
- You have experience designing, implementing and operating complex systems
- You have a strong track record of helping the engineers on your teams learn and grow
- You demonstrate an eagerness to learn from others
- You are excited to put your technical skills to work to solve hard problems for a business
Travel & Core Working Hours:
- Must be able to work core hours aligned with the Eastern Time Zone
- Remote employees for this role will be expected to travel about 3 times per year to the Boston office or company off sites.
$185,000 - $225,000 a year
Ellevation is transparent about its approach to pay which includes a competitive base salary, annual performance-based raise, and bonus (or commission for sales positions). The salary range for this role is $185,000 to $225,000 with a 20% annual bonus potential and the budgeted target is the midpoint, commensurate with candidate experience and internal parity. Our philosophy is that the full range is indicative of growth during employment. In addition, we provide comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees.
Are you passionate about growth and eager to learn? Do you possess a drive to excel and make a difference? Ellevation values diversity, creativity, and a hunger for new perspectives. While our job postings outline preferred qualifications, we believe that talent comes in various forms. If you’re motivated, adaptable, and ready to contribute, we encourage you to apply. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, recognizing that unique skills and fresh outlooks are invaluable assets to our team. Don’t let a checklist of requirements deter you – take the leap, and let’s explore the possibilities together!
About Us:
At Ellevation, we develop world-class software to help educators serve the fastest growing population of K-12 students: English Learners (ELs). Ellevation helps school districts transform their Multilingual Learner programs and ensure all students can achieve their highest aspirations. Our product suite includes a best-in-class data and instructional planning platform, resources to build teacher capacity, and student-facing programs to teach academic language.
We are a fast-growing, mission-driven technology company partnering with over 1,500 school districts and more than 2 million current and former English Learners. Over the next five years, we plan to double the number of ELs we serve and drive measurable outcomes for students. Ellevation merged with Curriculum Associates in 2021 to accelerate impact for Multilingual Learners. Our company continues to operate independently and is well-capitalized to support our ambitious social and financial objectives.
Why Ellevation?
In addition to our great benefits and competitive salaries, here are some things that make us unique:
+ Mission-driven organization where team members are empowered to make a significant impact
+ Opportunities to join Employee Resource Groups and support building a culture of belonging
+ Professional development and growth opportunities
+ Company and team offsites in various cities across the United States
+ Collaborative workspace in the heart of Boston - a stone’s throw from many central T stops (Downtown Crossing, Government Center, and Aquarium). Free snacks, beverages, and local organic fruit provided
+ Remote and in-person engagement opportunities, including happy hours, themed events, and competitions
+ Remote and in-person wellness programming to support team’s mental and physical wellbeing
Learn more about our team in our Culture Deck.
Here at Ellevation, we champion diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging. We strive to build a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values a range of ideas and opinions.
We believe in building a culture where productivity can flourish, one that is empathetic, respectful, and inclusive. We are proud to have been recognized in prior years as “Best Tech Workplace for Diversity” by the Timmy Awards for investing in training around inclusive behaviors, microaggressions, unconscious bias, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and feedback across the company. We are encouraged by our progress, but there’s more work to be done.
Benefits – Benefits eligible employees (and qualifying dependents) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees can enroll in our company’s 401(k) retirement plan and receive an employer match up to 50% on the first 7% of your contribution, with pre-tax and Roth options. Employees have access to flexible paid time off for vacations, sick and disability policy, additional 10 paid company holidays, 2 floating holidays and a winter office closure between Christmas and New Year’s. In addition, we provide a generous parental leave benefit, back-up childcare or eldercare, and a variety of other perks to support the health and well-being of our employees.
Additional Information: Ellevation operates under Curriculum Associates, LLC, an Equal Opportunity Employer. Curriculum Associates, LLC will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by law. Curriculum Associates, LLC will grant employment, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by law. Such action shall include, but not be limited to, the following: employment, upgrading, demotion, transfer, recruitment or recruitment advertising, layoff or termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation.
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