Manager, Software Engineering

Product Chennai, India


Description

Manager, Software Engineering

Chennai, India

 

The Opportunity: 

Anthology delivers education and technology solutions so that students can reach their full potential and learning institutions thrive. Our mission is to empower educators and institutions with meaningful innovation that’s simple and intelligent, inspiring student success and institutional growth.

 

The Power of Together is built on having a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of our hiring practices and who we are as a company.

 

For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit www.anthology.com. 

 

This role focuses on Anthology Student Success product, Student Success helps the world’s most progressive institutions of all sizes optimize program, marketing, and enrollment investment, as well as eliminate barriers to student success through technology-enabled support solutions. We leverage expertise, technology, and data to create an efficient, financially sustainable way to nurture students through their educational journey. Through our Student Services and Technology Support solutions, we are aiming to build a better education experience for everyone by extending institutional resources to meet the growing demands of learners.

 

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 Development Manager, Software Engineering, you will work closely with the QA, User Experience, Architecture, and Product Management teams to solve a wide variety of technical 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. 

 

The Candidate:

Required skills/qualifications:

  • 4-6 years of experience in cloud software development
  • Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and written and oral communication skills
  • Proven track record of building, managing, and growing high performing teams providing education or enterprise SaaS
  • Considerable experience with platform development and observability
  • 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
  • Strong oral and written communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Fluency in written and spoken English

 

Preferred skills/qualifications:

  • Any experience in the education sector with cloud applications
  • Experience overseeing full-cycle development processes and related tools - develop, build, test, deploy and operate applications
  • Experience with attracting, acquiring, and retaining technical talent

 

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.

 

Anthology 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.