Engineering Manager
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Open Up Resources began as the K–12 OER Collaborative, a 13-state initiative to address quality gaps in the curriculum market.
We partner with leading curriculum writing experts and technologists to provide the best curricula available via traditional print and state-of-the-art digital platforms.
When schools and districts adopt our free curricula, we provide opportunities to reinvest the savings in essential supports, from professional learning to printed materials.Open Up Resources’ portfolio seeks to include the highest-quality PK-12 curricula, with Green ratings by EdReports, validation from other respected entities, embedded supports for English Learners and Students with Dis/abilities, culturally relevant pedagogy, and effective professional learning.
Open Up Resources is leading a transformation in the instructional materials market by becoming an anti-racist organization and infusing every program, partnership, and practice with this intentionality so that our curriculum can catalyze anti-racist norms, structures, practices, and policies in education and society.
- Lead, coach and mentor a virtual team of software engineers of varying experience levels, communication styles, and motivational perspectives.
- Regularly re-evaluate processes and practices with an eye toward increasing developer satisfaction, improving cross-team communications, eliminating wasteful effort, and mitigating risk.
- Communicate clearly and empathetically with teammates of varying technical expertise through multiple channels and mediums: source code, diagrams/flowcharts, READMEs, bug database comments, Slack messages, emails, video meetings, and the occasional meetup IRL. You will talk directly to non-technical collaborators.
- Design user-centered software solutions using the best tools for the job, targeting the sweet spot between perfection, extensibility, and on-time delivery.
- Write production code and tests in assorted combinations of:
- Ruby (and Rails)
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- HTML5, CSS3, Slim templates
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- Javascript (vanilla ES6 so far)
- Work with product owners to vet business requirements, ensuring that they are clear enough for the development team to start confidently iterating.
- Center equity and psychological safety to ensure our team is a brave space for open and candid communication.
- Get to know your teammates and collaborators in engineering, product, product management, and our academics team, through 1:1 conversations and project meetings.
- Gain experience and familiarity with our codebases, conventions, and processes.
- Pair regularly with teammates (as both driver and navigator).
- Begin taking on solo tasks.
- Open your first pull request, and deploy it to production after review and QA approval.
- Collaborate with the Managing Director and Senior Engineers to document existing processes and technical implementations, “as-built”; identifying the how and why of our existing practices and architecture while questioning and noting ideas to improve.
- Regularly complete solo tasks from start to production.
- Actively participate in technical discussions, thoughtfully question existing and proposed approaches, explain alternate ideas.
- Start building a deep understanding of at least one curriculum.
- Model a full-course curriculum, based on raw source content (e.g. in Word docs or XML exports), to a granular enough level that we can maintain, organize, report on, and flexibly re-constitute the content in that curriculum.
- Write custom ETL scripts to import (and validate the import of) raw source content into those models.
- Create views and queries to generate beautiful and well-structured presentations of the modeled content, for multiple export targets, such as print, web, and third-party platforms.
- Ensure connectivity and high-quality UX for integrations between our web curriculum and other platforms.
- Minimum 5 years experience leading, managing and mentoring a team of software engineers.
- Demonstrated experience and success in liaising between engineering and other internal departments.
- Minimum 7 years of experience as a software engineer.
- Minimum 3 years of experience as a software engineer working with Ruby on Rails in a production environment.
- Minimum 5 years experience within product management and agile processes.
- Extensive experience with web frameworks and a solid understanding of abstract modeling of complex data.
- Clear understanding of relational databases and SQL.
- Ability to thrive in a remote team environment. Self-motivated and generous with knowledge-sharing.
- Strong communication skills. You love to talk about what your code does and why.
- At Open Up Resources, we believe in building and fostering an inclusive workplace environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where all applicants are considered for employment without attention to color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
- We are a virtual organization with headquarters in the California Bay Area.
- We offer competitive compensation and generous benefits packages including healthcare, vision, dental, 401k matching, unlimited paid-time-off, and monthly home-office stipends.
- This is a remote, full-time, benefited position with a salary range of $120,000-$170,000.