Engineering Manager, Top Hat
Core Engineering (Core Platform)
Interactive software for higher education
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Interactive software for higher education
201-500 employees
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower educators to engage students and unleash their potential.
Role
Who you are
- A proven track record with a minimum of 7 years in application development, working with modern application DevOps tools, and/or writing internal tools, and infrastructure automation
- Demonstrated experience leading and managing teams, with a strong ability to manage relationships and drive collaboration across design, product, and engineering teams
- Strong technical acumen in DevOps concepts and practices, with the confidence to make informed data-driven decisions and guide the team in implementing scalable solutions & processes to improve developer experience
- Experience managing multiple codebases and libraries in different stages of development, from greenfield projects to maintaining and improving legacy systems
- Familiarity in backend application frameworks and languages (e.g., Python, Django, FastAPI), and AWS (Fargate, RDS, Lambda)
- High emotional intelligence, with the ability to manage interpersonal relationships, resolve conflicts, and maintain a positive, creative, and collaborative team dynamic
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to advocate for optimal front-end solutions, address technical challenges, and align goals across departments
- Proven experience in coaching and mentoring engineers, helping them grow their skills in modern web technologies, accessibility, and performance optimization
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, with a strong focus on front-end development and user experience
What the job involves
- We are seeking a forward-thinking Engineering Manager to lead our talented platform team within our Core Engineering department
- The primary objective of this team is to improve our software delivery performance and availability by driving DevOps culture, tools, infrastructure and practices across Engineering within the Product Development department
- As an Engineering Manager, you will guide your team to success, foster collaboration, and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement in the ecosystem
- Lead, motivate, and guide a team of engineers, fostering an environment focused on collaboration, creativity, and growth in the development of stable and robust systems
- Spearhead the modernization & maturation of the internal platform engineering capabilities, driving the adoption of modern tools, performance optimization techniques, cost management, and infrastructure standards
- Solicit feedback from developers to validate and clarify ensuring alignment with developers needs and feasibility
- Collaborate with engineering managers in product domain teams to advocate and prioritize capabilities that enhance developer experience while maintaining the integrity and performance of existing internal systems & tooling
- Use emotional intelligence to navigate complex situations, resolve conflicts, and create a psychologically safe and high-performing engineering environment
- Provide coaching and mentorship to team members, supporting their growth in technologies, and career advancement
- Deliver regular and constructive feedback to your team regarding their performance and technical contributions
- Evaluate and optimize development workflows and operational practices to enhance overall efficiency and ensure timely delivery of user-centric features
- Participate in on-call practices as a point of escalation from the team
- Assume scrum master responsibilities and guide the team in following agile processes effectively, with a focus on internal deliverables and sprint planning
Our take
Top Hat is at the apex of two major trends in education: the digitisation of platforms for content and the rising costs of higher education for students. By digitising work largely created by professors, Top Hat has delivered engaging content at lower cost for students across Canada and North America.
Where traditional publishers rely on analogue processes to provide high-quality but largely unengaging, uninteractive and expensive textbooks, Top Hat markets the platform to professors to publish their own interactive multimedia online textbooks. This gives them a cut and builds a holistic student experience on top.
The product has now had so much success that Top Hat’s strategy has evolved to include buying those conventional publishers of postsecondary course materials. This means the company can shift those quality materials into digitally distributed versions and make them available on a subscription basis.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2021
$130m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$55m
SERIES D
Total funding: $234.9m
Company benefits
- Professional learning and development for all role levels
- The latest and greatest technology to do your job
- An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ
- Competitive benefits and health/lifestyle spending accounts
- A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection
- Employee-led, exec sponsored employee resource groups
Company HQ
Downtown Toronto, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Maggie (Moylan) Leen
(CEO & CMO)Formerly VP of Marketing and Communications, Medical and Healthcare at Adtalem Global Education. Also spent 14 years at Pearson and 2 years at Community Advocates.
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