Engineering Manager, Instructure
$130-200k
Dynamic learning management platform
Open for applications
Dynamic learning management platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$130-200k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To elevate student success, amplify the power of teaching, and inspire everyone to learn together.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated talent as a mentor and leader — when was the last time you helped someone achieve their career goals? Do you have a history of shipping great software on-time and on-budget?
- Strong technical skills that will allow you to make technical decisions, provide technical feedback to your team through code reviews, and write code alongside your teammates
- Demonstrated ability to own, improve, and scale existing code
- The ability to collaborate effectively with product and program management, QA, and UI/UX to translate user and business needs into superior experiences
- The ability to collaborate effectively with peers that use the services you own
- A passion for people and for software
- 7+ years of professional software development experience
- 2+ years experience managing teams of 3+ engineers
- BS or greater in Computer Science or equivalent experience preferred
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers and ensuring that they are able to deliver well architected and sustainable solutions on time and within scope
- You will work closely with your engineers, product manager, and design partner to ensure that all projects are delivered with the highest level of quality and meet or exceed customer expectations
- Additionally, you will be instrumental in fostering a collaborative team environment and supporting the professional growth of individual engineers
- Your leadership and mentorship will help to ensure that team members are able to reach their full potential and contribute effectively to the success of the organization
- Like our customers, we value a learning culture and expect our engineers to work closely with product and support to build the best possible solutions, not just write code to a spec
- Engineers at Instructure enjoy an annual company-wide tech conference, biweekly tech talks, and quarterly Hackweeks, all designed to encourage as much exploration and learning as possible
- We build innovative web applications that rely on modern tools to create engaging user experiences
- We are cloud native. For this job, that means collaborating with your team to craft low-latency, high-availability web services that can provide exceptional user experiences
- We grow great products by investing in the teams that create them: the hallmarks of our engineering culture are constructive code review, a bias to action, thoughtful mentorship, and regular communication
- This is a hands-on development position - you will be doing technical discovery, coding and managing a team
- We use Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and our platform runs on AWS
Our take
Instructure is an education technology company, creator of the Canvas Learning Management Platform that allows schools to build the digital learning environment that meets the unique challenges faced by their institution. The platform simplifies teaching, elevates learning, and eliminates the headaches of supporting and growing traditional learning technologies.
The Canvas platform has grown to become a key part of a large number of educational institutions, from pre-school to higher education and beyond. Much of Instructure's workforce is dedicated to R&D, which is unusual for a company of their size, and shows their focus on innovating.
Founded back in 2008, the company has claimed numerous successes, including going international and hitting the $1 billion market cap. It has made a number of acquisitions, most recently of Concentric Sky and LearnPlatform. The former saw Instructure incorporate Sky's "Badgr" into its ecosystem as "Canvas Badges", whereas the latter adds evidence-based insights to the platform - both cementing its commitment to building the education industry's most integrated teaching and learning platform to support lifelong learning.
Instructure was itself acquired in 2024 by KKR, which will support a broad-based equity ownership program for Instructure employees. This strategy is based on a strategy of employee ownership as a cause of stronger companies. The move is a promising one considering KKRs track record of acquired companies, but time will tell how Intructure fares.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2016
$4m
SERIES A
Aug 2015
$1.5m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $5.5m
Company benefits
- Equity and 401k
- Medical, dental, disability, and life insurance
- HSA program, vision, voluntary life, and AD&D
- Tuition reimbursement
- Work-from-home flexibility and flex time off
- Gym club reimbursements and rewards-based fitness tracking
- Professional learning and career development opportunities, including Basecamp Employee Development Week!
- An innovative community of passionate educators and learners
Company HQ
Cottonwood Heights, UT
Leadership
Steve Daly
(CEO, not founder)They have a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a MBA in Strategy and Finance with more than 20 years experience in hardware and software industries.
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