Blackboard Careers

Description

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Hybrid – Chennai, India 

About the Role

This role focuses on our LMS, Blackboard, a solution designed to support learners, instructors, and administrators, allowing them to access online educational experiences wherever and whenever they want through web and mobile devices. Our technology helps instructors breathe life into educational content, brings efficiency to day-to-day tasks, and empowers instructors with tools to engage and assess every learner. We help motivate learners by promoting collaboration, communication, and connections with their peers and instructors.

As a member of our Product Development team, you’ll work in an agile environment delivering industry-leading SaaS products and web service platforms. As Senior Manager, Software Engineering, you will work closely with the QA, CI, User Experience, and Product Management teams to solve a wide variety of technology challenges and to deliver Anthology's new feature and original system releases, all the while advocating for, evangelizing, and implementing engineering best practices across the team and organization. You will work and coordinate with other team leads on cross-team projects to ensure dependencies are identified, understood, and managed. You’ll be working with AI technology to enhance development efficiency and create exciting new features for our customers. These teams design, develop, maintain, and deploy scalable multi-tier enterprise web applications leveraging technologies such as Java and JavaScript.  

Required Skills and Experience

• 6-10 years of experience within cloud software development 
• Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and written and oral communication skills 
• Proven track record of managing and growing high performing teams providing education or enterprise SaaS 
• Considerable experience with Java and SQL on database management systems such as SQL Server, Oracle, and Postgres 
• Experienced with current web development technologies like Spring, jQuery, Ajax, HTML5, CSS3, Angular, React, Backbone, and Typescript 
• A working understanding of software engineering best practices and Agile methods 
• Experience working with product management at a senior management level 
• Experience with large consumer-facing applications 
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred Skills and Experience 

• Any experience in the education sector or with cloud applications     

About Blackboard

Blackboard advances teaching excellence and unlocks the full potential of technology to deliver meaningful outcomes. We empower institutions to deepen connections between educators and learners, inspire engagement, and drive long-term academic success across the full learner journey.  For more information, please visit www.blackboard.com.  

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.    

Blackboard is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.