Engineering Manager, Schools
What do we do?
At Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT), we’re unlocking the power of educator-created content. More than 2 out of 3 teachers in the U.S., Canada and Australia come to TpT every year to get teacher-tested, engaging, and rigorous materials. What began as a humble exchange for teachers looking to share lesson plans has since exploded into a massive marketplace where teachers have created more than 3 million resources for all aspects of PreK-12 education. More than five million educators worldwide (including teachers, administrators, and parents) have downloaded TpT resources more than a billion times. If you haven’t heard of TpT yet and want to learn more, just ask a teacher. Or try this recent article in Forbes.
Role
TpT for Schools is an educator-powered way to customize school curriculum. Teachers and admins work closely together to discover, select, and organize what they need from a library of millions of educator-created resources.
As the Engineering Manager for Schools, you will help shape the long-term product & technical vision and own its implementation. Like all engineering managers at TpT, you will manage product goals and execution, set technical direction and guide product strategy while collaborating closely with other leaders and executives.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of full-stack, front-end, and back-end engineers to help TpT reach its full potential.
- Shape our long-term vision for Schools and how the work integrates with the broader TpT engineering platform.
- Take ownership and responsibility for producing maintainable, monitorable, and highly available software systems.
- Be an active member of the engineering community by blogging and speaking about your experiences at TpT.
Qualities for a successful candidate
- 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high performing teams tackling difficult problems.
- Strong communicator who can crisply explain complex technical concepts.
- Collaborates with product managers, community relations, and other engineering leaders in the org.
- Comfortable with lean engineering and agile project management practices with a track record of successfully managing and delivering several large projects.
- Loves to move fast and iterate to create high-quality products.
Bonus points for experience with
- eCommerce and/or marketplaces
- Ed-Tech