Software Development Manager, Paper
Unlimited tutoring for all school students
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Unlimited tutoring for all school students
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To ensure equal access to academic support for all students—no matter their circumstances.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science preferred
- 3+ years experience as a Software Developer or Software Architect
- 1+ years experience in a leadership role, managing distributed teams in fast-paced environments during periods of rapid growth
- Service oriented and event driven architecture knowledge
- Experience with GCP/AWS cloud providers
- Knowledge of different engineering disciplines and how they interrelate
- Ability to understand code without working on it in a day to day basis
- Ability to analyze and manage risk
- Expert knowledge in modern, agile SDLC and goal setting frameworks like SMART, OKRs, etc
- Strong project management skills
- Working knowledge of JIRA, Git, GitHub
- Experience with EdTech software (learning management systems, student information systems, etc.) and EdTech industry standards (LTI, OneRoster, CASE, etc.) preferred
What the job involves
- Reporting to the VP Engineering the Software Development Manager will manage software developers across multi-disciplinary teams and supervise engineering deliverables
- This hire will oversee the professional development, career growth, and performance evaluation for their direct reports
- The Software Development Manager will collaborate with Product Managers and Product Designers to facilitate the translation of business requirements into technical needs and actions
- They will also be directly involved in coaching, professional development and career growth of developers of various disciplines on their teams
- Our tech stack is a Vue front-end which consumes various REST APIs built on popular Python and PHP frameworks, MySQL, Postgres and Redis Memorystores
- Accountable for overall delivery of engineering tasks, including tech design and development
- Support, and empower a team of developers working across multi-disciplinary teams
- Collaborate with product managers on estimations, backlog prioritization, and follow-up with the development team to ensure on-time delivery
- Coordinate with engineering managers and technical leadership to plan, prepare, and execute product and engineering roadmaps
- Contribute to the code base and ensure smooth integration between systems
- Create and set goals and objectives for your teams and direct reports
- Train, coach, grow and evaluate performance for team members
- Leverage various tools to measure, track and analyze performance of teams and direct reports and drive results
- Facilitate team-wide ceremonies and rituals based around collaboration, knowledge sharing and process improvement
- Maintain technical knowledge base and documentation for your teams
- Advocate for, maintain, and grow Paper’s culture and values
- Routinely on-call rotation for incident response management
- Conduct Agile ceremonies (standup, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retro)
- Development time estimation
- Development Progress Reporting
- Management of Developers
Our take
Paper is an online tutoring platform that partners with schools and districts in Canada and the US to offer on-demand tutoring for students in need, while offering part time work and extra income for qualified teachers and tutors.
As the EdTech space becomes more and more lucrative (and thus, competitive) it’s interesting that Paper focuses on going straight to schools rather than consumers. In theory, it’s a much tighter and limiting market, but this in turn makes it free for all students, and these very same sales-cycle limitations may actually offer better long term prospects.
The strategy has been working for Paper in any case. It’s attracted enough VC investment to give it unicorn status, and after rebranding from from GradeSlam to Paper in 2020, increased its tutor headcount more than tenfold in just one year.
While huge 2020-21 growth was no doubt boosted by the pandemic’s impact on in-person schooling, there’s plenty of scope for more. The public education system is under immense strain in in the US, where overworked teachers and underserved students are a topic of great discussion. By offering help to students, relief to teachers, and earnings to tutors, Paper could be on to a winning formula.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2022
$26.3m
SERIES B
Jan 2022
$25.9m
SERIES B
Total funding: $65.2m
Company benefits
- Paper is a remote-first company
- Annual company-wide meetup
- Opportunity for career development with a fast-growing company
- A unique opportunity to make an impact by making education more equitable
- Stipend to help support the growth of your home office
- Unlimited access to tutoring for children of Paper employees
- All eligible employees receive comprehensive healthcare benefits including health, vision, and dental
- Generous and flexible vacation policy
Company values
- Selflessness wins - You put the needs of students above all else.
- Positivity wins - You choose to approach each scenario with a positive attitude.
- Integrity wins - You approach your decisions, your work, and your communication in an honest way.
- Tenacity wins - You have a relentless pursuit of victory.
- Creativity wins - You're creative and unique in your own path to victory.
- Excellence wins - Internalizing these philosophies in a state of unmatched excellence.
Company HQ
Milton Park, Montreal, QC
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Leadership
Philip Cutler
(CEO)Founded and was President of Canadian tutoring company Laurus Educational Services from 2010 to 2014 before launching Paper. Served as a Counsellor for the City of Westmount from 2013 to 2021, focusing on Public Works and Innovation.
Roberto Cipriani
(COO & CTO)Software and web development specialist. Organizer for the Montreal CTO Meetup and Montreal EdTech Meetups, and a technology advisor to McGill University and mentor for Founder Fuel and X-1 accelerators
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