Software Engineering Manager
Company Description:
Veracross provides SaaS-based School Information Systems (SIS) designed to meet the specific needs of independent K-12 schools worldwide. Our one-record solution combines the power of a fully integrated single-record database, personalized communication tools, and an elegant architecture that is unique in our industry.
We are a growing, values-led community of employees in the US, UK and Australia who share a vision to unify school communities, improve the quality of education, and enhance learning.
Veracross is five product brands in one global tech company
- Veracross SIS is a one-person, one-record school management platform
- Magnus Health provides cloud-based Student Health Record (SHR) solutions
- Digistorm connects with their communities through Digistorm Websites, Digistorm Funnel, and Digistorm Apps.
- Epraise incentivizes student well-being and connects teachers, students, and families.
- Firefly provides an online learning space for students and teachers
Job Description:
We are seeking an Engineering Manager / Technical Lead to oversee a new FinTech engineering team and guide the evolution of a mission-critical product suite used by private K-12 schools across the world. This is a strategic, high-impact leadership role responsible for shaping the team’s culture, driving architectural and technical direction, and ensuring the successful delivery of a product suite that helps schools promote equity, affordability, and access for families from diverse economic backgrounds.
In this role, you will lead a team of full-stack engineers working across Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SQL, Javascript, and modern AI-assisted development workflows. You will balance people leadership with hands-on technical direction—setting standards, mentoring engineers, and partnering closely with product, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver a cohesive, scalable, next-generation experience.
Responsabilities:
- Lead, mentor, and grow the engineering team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and technical excellence.
- Own the technical roadmap for the assigned product suite, aligning engineering strategy with product vision and long-term business goals.
- Drive modernization efforts, guiding the team as we evolve legacy systems into scalable, maintainable, next-generation architectures.
- Provide technical oversight across the stack, ensuring high-quality design decisions, consistent patterns, and strong engineering fundamentals.
- Champion AI-assisted development, helping the team adopt agentic tools for code generation, refactoring, testing, and workflow automation.
- Partner closely with product and design, translating requirements into actionable engineering plans and ensuring smooth, iterative delivery.
- Coordinate cross-team integrations with our Student Information System, Admissions, Fundraising, and other platform areas.
- Improve engineering processes, including CI/CD, code review practices, documentation standards, and developer experience.
- Guide technical discovery and risk assessment, ensuring the team makes informed decisions and delivers predictable outcomes.
- Represent the engineering team in planning, prioritization, and cross-functional leadership discussions.
- Support integrations with third-party systems commonly used by private K-12 schools.