Engineering Lead, Core Product Engineering

🕒 June 10

🏄 California, Connecticut, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $204k - $280k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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ClassDojo

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📚 Education

💰 $125M Series D on 2022-07

Consulting • Marketing • Education

ClassDojo is a communication platform that connects teachers, families, and students, facilitating better engagement and collaboration in educational settings. It offers a suite of tools that allow teachers to communicate with parents, share classroom updates, and support students' social-emotional learning. The platform also features a portfolio function that allows students to share their learning progress with their families. It's widely popular, used by millions of students and parents, and supports multilingual communication. ClassDojo is focused on building communities within classrooms, providing resources for teachers, and ensuring privacy and security for all its users.

📋 Description

• Own the product area's company-level objectives and the engineering plan that delivers them • Translate company priorities into product area plans and team plans, in a way that flows both up and down • Be responsible for architecture-level trade-offs across the area's teams; own the technical roadmap and how it balances against product commitments • Represent the product area in s-team forums and engineering-wide leadership conversations • Coach EMs to a higher bar with clear feedback, growth plans, and direct support • Hold the line on engineering practices: flow-based delivery, vertical slicing (nothing >5 days, no project >4 weeks), WIP discipline, Definition of Done, observability, AI-native development • Address performance issues early and clearly; develop managers out of "fine" performance into great performance • Be directive when our values, quality bar, or ways of working are at stake • Support and drive architecture and systems design decisions across the area; ensure systems are reliable, maintainable, and operationally ready • Take accountability for SLAs and incident response across the area • Make tech-debt and reliability trade-offs on purpose, not by accident • Co-own outcomes with PM and Design leads (roadmap, quarterly goals, quality bar) • Partner with Revenue, Ops, CX, and other functions as the product area requires • Build pragmatic interim solutions that work today and migrate cleanly to Platform services as they mature

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years managing managers, with direct reports who were themselves people managers • 7+ years total in technical roles, with a strong individual-contributor era you can still draw on • Have owned a product area, pillar, or equivalent multi-team scope and delivered a measurable business outcome • Have built or evolved engineering practices across multiple teams, not just within one • Have hired, developed, and (where necessary) parted ways with engineering managers • Operate with a reproducible structural playbook for changing org topology and developing managers, not just experience • Comfortable making and defending architecture-level trade-offs; can still reason about code with taste • Are an excellent written communicator; can articulate strategy and trade-offs clearly in writing.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities