Tech Lead Manager, Student Experience

🕒 September 9

🌵 Arizona, Colorado, +27 more states – Remote

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💵 $146k - $183k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Niche

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Serve as the single technical and people leader for the student-facing team • Own professional development, career growth, and performance management for direct reports • Lead the team’s culture, technical direction, and execution • Partner with the Product Manager to evolve team processes toward faster delivery and rapid learning • Stay hands-on in the codebase through inbound technical work, bug fixes, compliance work, technical debt, and smaller features • Own technical debt within scope and provide technical depth across projects • Challenge technical approaches and act as the team’s primary technical representative • Model effective AI-assisted development for the team • Monitor and act on team health • Build relationships with direct reports and understand ongoing projects • Establish 1:1s, performance conversations, and career development practices • Own technical decisions and architectural direction • Identify and correct technical or product-design issues before they become delivery problems • Lead process evolution and experiments jointly with Product • Serve as a recognized technical authority for the team’s domain

🎯 Requirements

• Strong, current hands-on software engineering experience; regular code writing and review required • Prior experience owning both technical direction and people management • Readiness to handle technical direction and people management simultaneously • Ability to independently represent the engineering function without a separate Tech Lead • Experience with or strong aptitude for AI-assisted development tooling and workflows • Track record of making pragmatic technical trade-offs under delivery pressure • Experience with, or openness to evolving, agile/Scrum-based team processes • Legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future • Must be based in one of the states where Niche currently has employees

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual Bonus and Stock Option Program • Best-in-class 100% paid employee health plan, including vision and dental and supplemental coverage • Flexible Paid Time Off Policy • Work-from-home office stipend • Parental leave for all employees (12 weeks fully paid) • Short-term disability for birthing parents • 401(k) with employer match • Fully flexible workforce with remote, Pittsburgh office, or a combination • Full-time, salaried position • No relocation assistance offered