Technical Lead, Software Engineering

In this Technical Lead role at IXL Learning, you will guide a high-performance software team at our San Mateo headquarters and provide hands-on technical leadership. You will align engineering work with our mission to improve education through technology, while collaborating with product managers, designers, and QA to ensure quality and usability. You'll mentor engineers and project leads and help them grow toward their career goals. This role combines people leadership with technical execution to drive impactful education products at scale.

• equity
• benefits

• Build and manage a high-performance software team
• Mentor engineers and project leads to advance skills and careers
• Translate company initiatives, goals, and values to the team
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and QA to maintain product usability and quality standards

• 5+ years of direct software engineering experience
• 2+ years of engineering management experience
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science or related discipline
• Excellent programming skills in Java or another object-oriented language
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Exceptional analytical reasoning and problem-solving abilities
• Strong organization and time management skills
• Passion for improving education through technology

• strong communication
• leadership
• problem-solving
• team mentoring
• Java
• object-oriented programming