Director, Software Engineering

🔥 16 hours ago

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $200k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Ellevation Education

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Education • SaaS • B2B

Ellevation Education is a company dedicated to improving outcomes for English learners (ELs) through informed instructional decisions and tailored professional development. The company provides a platform that integrates real-time student data with essential tasks such as progress monitoring and reporting, empowering educators to make impactful instructional decisions. Ellevation Education offers products like the Ellevation Platform and Ellevation Strategies to streamline workflows and support educators. Proudly serving over 50% of EL students in 1,700+ school districts across the nation, Ellevation is committed to educational equity. The company aims to empower educators to drive meaningful change in classrooms and improve the effectiveness of English learner programs.

📋 Description

• Identify and prioritize cross-squad problems including platform modernization, authentication, dependency health, and security • Shape initiatives with Staff Engineers, defining problems, scope, timelines, and technical risks • Present cross-cutting work to R&D leaders for cycle prioritization • Support teams delivering cross-cutting work and technical decisions • Hire, develop, direct, and coach Staff Engineers • Judge technical tradeoffs and stand behind team decisions • Lead Ellevation’s security practice and establish ownership and escalation • Integrate security findings into engineering tools and workflows • Build threat modeling into work planning • Coordinate incident response, vendor and third-party risk, security awareness, questionnaires, and penetration testing • Own compliance evidence and coordinate contributions across engineering and product • Manage Ellevation’s relationship with Curriculum Associates’ central security organization • Collaborate on security standards, SLAs, KPIs, scanning configuration, and reporting • Report weekly to CA stakeholders on remediation progress, blockers, and security KPIs • Represent Ellevation in CA security forums • Report to the VP of Engineering and participate in R&D leadership decisions

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering, including experience leading engineering teams • Experience hiring and leading senior and staff-level engineers, and growing them as technical leaders • Track record of taking large, ambiguous technical problems spanning teams through delivery, working through teams that did not report to you • Strong technical foundation in modern web applications, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD • Background in application security, cloud security, compliance, and incident response • Hands-on experience with SAST, SCA, and dependency scanning tooling • Experience moving decisions forward in a matrixed organization • Track record of communicating technical and security risk to executive audiences • Experience with sensitive or regulated data is a strong plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work option • Full-time employment

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