Engineering Manager, sofatutor
Online tutor platform
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Online tutor platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To support young people throughout the world with the best learning content – on a unique platform.
Role
Who you are
- Several years of experience as an Engineering Manager or (Staff) Team Lead in agile software teams—including people leadership
- Demonstrable experience in hiring, onboarding, and developing Engineers (coaching, feedback, growth frameworks)
- Practical experience in larger web development projects, ideally with Ruby on Rails
- Solid programming skills (preferably in Ruby and/or JavaScript)—enough to competently lead architecture and code quality discussions
- Very good understanding of software development processes, testing, deployment, and modern delivery culture
- You are passionate about AI development and want to advance your team with pragmatic, value-adding use cases
What the job involves
- You are responsible for the structure, leadership, and further development of the Engineers in the team, with a clear focus on outcomes, quality, and sustainable delivery
- You coach Engineers (technically & personally), set up growth plans, and establish effective feedback and performance routines
- You strengthen a collaborative, motivating team culture with ownership, psychological safety, and a high-quality orientation
- You work closely with Product, Design, Content, and Technical Leaders on roadmap, prioritization, and implementation—and translate goals into realistic plans
- You continuously refine workflows, agile rituals, and quality standards (e.g., DoR/DoD, release processes, incident learnings)
- You ensure that technical decisions, dependencies, and risks are transparent—and actively steer towards solutions
- You have experience in hiring, designing onboarding processes, and the professional development of Software Engineers
- You build structures that enable scaling (e.g., role/leveling clarity, clear responsibilities, knowledge management)
- You identify meaningful use cases for AI in engineering (e.g., assistance functions, automation, developer productivity) and empower your team to implement them responsibly
Our take
All students flourish when they can learn at their own pace, but this can be difficult to achieve in a traditional classroom. This is what sofatutor is setting out to address with its online tuition platform.
The company offers students at school and university one-on-one online learning support in 15 subjects, ranging from Mathematics to Latin. The main draw for students is the platform's flexibility and its unique 12 minute lesson format. Compared to traditional private tuition, sofatutor is faster, more convenient and cheaper.
In the fiercely competitive online tuition space, sofatutor finds an edge over rivals such as Tutorfair and MyTutor with its innovative learning materials, interface and class formats. Its strong product has certainly cemented sofatutor in the space, as it looks to further grow its team and operations into the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2018
$3.6m
LATE VC
Aug 2014
$4.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $7.7m
Company benefits
- Corporate benefits: Shopping platform with attractive offers from all areas of lie
- Future bens: Discounts for sustainable and future-oriented brands
- Mindsurance: Tools to strengthen mental health
- BVG: Berlin public transport or "Deutschlandticket" at a discounted price
- Swapfiets: Bicycle subscription for many German cities
- Fitness: Choose between FitX, Fitness First, or Urban Sports Club
Company HQ
Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Stephen Bayer
(Founder & MD)Is a founding member and chair of Edtech Founders Club. Is also an Initiator at Art Market 101 and iddb.school, a digital education initiative.
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