Tech Lead – Software Engineering

🕒 September 1

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $101.9k - $163k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 8%

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Cengage Group

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

📚 Education

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

💰 Private Equity Round on 2023-06

Education • eCommerce • SaaS

Cengage Group is a global education technology company dedicated to enhancing learning experiences. With over 100 years of service, Cengage provides affordable and high-quality digital products and services that help learners become job-ready. Their offerings support various educational goals, including reskilling, upskilling, degree attainment, and language learning, ensuring access to quality education for individuals of all backgrounds and abilities.

📋 Description

• Lead a team creating tools for Cengage Learning Platforms • Define and implement an innovative, AI-first roadmap while prioritizing quality and accessibility • Collaborate with product and design teams as technical lead under the Product Operating Model • Improve customer outcomes through frequent stakeholder engagement and data-driven insights • Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing engineering team • Reimagine and optimize software delivery processes using modern tools, automation, and generative AI • Drive Product Operating Model Discovery activities and continuous internal and external customer engagement • Track quality and efficiency improvements through instrumented SDLC tools and report progress to executive teams • Balance technical debt and maintenance activities with new feature development within each sprint • Work with partners and customers to establish and manage product backlogs, estimates, and budgets • Monitor emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation in product roadmaps

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and recent, relevant work experience • 2+ years of technology leadership experience • Experience developing technology strategies, fostering innovation, and leading globally distributed teams • Working knowledge of AI concepts, including machine learning, LLMs, multimodal models, prompt engineering, AI agents, RAG, and vector databases • Hands-on experience integrating or experimenting with commercial and open-source GenAI technologies and toolkits, including coding assistants, OpenAI, Hugging Face, and LangChain • Experience modernizing legacy or monolithic architectures and migrating systems to modular, cloud-native platforms • Experience implementing hybrid cloud strategies • Ability to design and develop APIs integrating legacy systems with modern solutions • Experience designing and deploying solutions on AWS, GCP, or Azure, including containers, serverless, and cloud storage/compute services • Ability to build secure, resilient, scalable, high-availability enterprise systems for global user bases • Strong experience with agile delivery, including Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe, and Jira or Azure DevOps • Demonstrated success organizing teams and delivery around a Product Operating Model • Strong hands-on expertise with Java development required, 5 years minimum • Strong hands-on expertise with React or other modern front-end technology required, 5 years minimum • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills in distributed, remote-first environments • Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including executives

🏖️ Benefits

• Discretionary incentive bonus program with a 15% annual individual target • Comprehensive Total Rewards package • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities