Modern Campus
Senior Director, Software Development
Remote (Canada), Remote (United States) · Director
Sponsorship not specified$180k-$200kDetected 23 days ago
TypeScriptJavaReactSpringPostgreSQLAWSCI/CDRESTProduct ManagementProduct StrategyPerformance ManagementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- About Modern Campus Modern Campus empowers institutions to move with confidence across the modern learner journey.
- This role ensures predictable delivery, high-quality systems, and strong alignment with product strategy across its areas of responsibility.
- This role requires deep technical fluency across Modern Campus technology stacks and active engagement in technical discussions across the R&D organization.
Responsibilities
- Engineering Execution & Delivery Own delivery commitments across Connected Curriculum and associated product teams, ensuring predictable execution, quality, and operational readiness.
- Technical Leadership & Platform Alignment Act as a senior technical leader, engaging deeply in architecture, system design, and cross-product technical decisions.
- Drive the design and development of foundational platform services and shared components that support Connected Curriculum and other Modern Campus products.
- Lead modernization efforts across legacy systems, aligning them with platform-oriented architecture.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development practices, including development harnesses, workflow automation, and engineering guardrails that improve delivery speed, quality, and scalability.
- Guide the design and evolution of agentic SDLC patterns that enable teams to safely apply AI in design, implementation, testing, review, documentation, and operational workflows.
- Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning across assigned engineering teams.
- Build and retain high-performing organizations with strong technical depth and leadership capability.
- Build organizational capability in AI-first and agentic development practices, helping teams adopt new workflows, tools, and engineering habits effectively.
- Partner with Product leadership as scope expands to ensure engineering capacity, architecture, and delivery models scale effectively.
Skills
- Relational databases (e.g.,
Compensation
- AWS, containerized and CI/CD-based environments Experience designing or evolving platform-oriented architectures and shared services.
- Experience improving engineering effectiveness through AI-assisted development practices, workflow automation, or related SDLC innovation.
- Strong understanding of how to apply AI within the software development lifecycle in ways that preserve quality, security, maintainability, and team accountability.
- Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Product leadership and influence across organizational boundaries.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate technical risks and tradeoffs to executive audiences.
- Preferred Experience leading engineering organizations across multiple products or product lines, or successfully scaling scope from a single product to a portfolio.
Benefits
- We exist to create empowerment through education.
Visa & Work Authorization
- mmitted to bring on hires regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status (for US candidates)
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