Director, Software Engineering – Partner Platform

🕒 June 26

🌵 Arizona, Colorado, +27 more states – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote 🐊 Florida – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🐎 Kentucky – Remote ⚜️ Louisiana – Remote 🦞 Maine – Remote 🌾 Nebraska – Remote 🎰 Nevada – Remote 🗻 New Hampshire – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🏈 Ohio – Remote 🌪️ Oklahoma – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote 🏰 Missouri – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote 🌴 South Carolina – Remote 🎸 Tennessee – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote ⛰️ West Virginia – Remote

💵 $168.6k - $210.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Niche

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2002

📚 Education

🏪 Marketplace

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Marketplace • Non-profit

Niche is a platform that simplifies the search for educational institutions, ranging from K-12 schools to colleges and graduate schools. It provides users with data, reviews, and insights to help them find schools that fit their individual needs. Niche offers tools for comparing schools, tracking the application process, and accessing scholarships and financial aid information, making it easier for students and families to navigate the education landscape.

📋 Description

• Lead the engineering side of the Partner Experience organization • Own team health, technical strategy, and delivery velocity across both teams • Drive alignment from discovery through delivery • Champion AI-native engineering as an operating model • Learn about Niche and meet various team members • Assess the organization's engineering health and technical priorities • Own the engineering roadmap and establish a strong operating rhythm with product leads

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 3+ years managing engineering managers • Demonstrated, hands-on experience driving a team's transition to AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows — building the culture, tooling, and measurement systems, not just personal AI usage • Track record of shipping high-quality product at scale in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment • Strong communicator — able to represent engineering credibly to product and GTM partners and translate fluidly between technical and business language • Experience working alongside embedded data engineers, with meaningful exposure to modern data tooling (dbt, Snowflake, or similar) • Systematic thinker who brings structure to ambiguous problems without over-processing • Nice to Have: Experience in EdTech, marketplace, or consumer platform businesses

🏖️ Benefits

• Best-in-class 100% paid employee health plan, including vision and dental and supplemental coverage • Flexible Paid Time Off Policy • Stipend that allows you to build your work from home office in a style and function that suits your personal preferences • Parental leave for all employees (12 weeks fully paid) in addition to short term disability for birthing parents • Meaningful 401(k) with employer match • Participation in our Annual Bonus and Stock Option Program