About Us
At GoGuardian, we're helping share the future of digital learning by providing educators, students, and schools with tools to create engaging and equitable learning environments. Together, we build innovative solutions to empower students, deliver insights, and encourage experimentation. With employees around the globe, we're committed to building a culture of inclusivity, curiosity, and courage. GoGuardian's growth is fast and ever-evolving, and our teams are growing along with it - always ready to experiment and learn.
TutorMe is part of the GoGuardian suite of products helping to shape the future of digital learning by giving students access to the individualized support they need to unlock their full learning potential by partnering with schools across the country to provide high-impact, on-demand online tutoring to students whenever and wherever they need it. As the explosive demand for virtual learning draws more learners to TutorMe, we're expanding our fully remote team of talented individuals to help us democratize world-class academic support!
Our Culture
We're here for the cause but also the culture. We celebrate our successes and wins together and make time to appreciate our teammates daily. Take a peek into your future at GoGuardian: our Slack channels include #gardenclub, #boardgametime, #bookrecs, and #petphotos. There's always something fun going on, including concerts, classes, book clubs, and more! From virtual trivia to local meet-ups, Guardians always find ways to connect.
The Role
TutorMe is looking for a hands-on VP of Engineering to partner with our CTO to create the engineering strategy and grow the team by 4x (currently a team of 5). This successful leader will have exceptional engineering leadership experience and proven coding background. They will be able to balance business delivery with engineering quality and have strong leadership skills to hire and grow a world-class engineering organization.
What You'll Do

• Deliver high-quality software solutions on time
• Make and own critical decisions and be proactive in foreseeing and resolving issues.
• Partner with CTO to create the engineering vision and strategyHire and mentor an expanding team of software engineers
• Hire and grow a group of Engineering Managers and staff Engineers to build a strong leadership core
• Create a high-performance engineering culture focused on accountability and results
• Serve as the technology thought leader within the business to maintain technical standards, security, industry trends, and emerging technologies.
• Clearly define scope, objectives, and approach and develop a clear, detailed plan for executing technical projects.
• Advocate for engineering projects and needs, such as tech debt, in company roadmap planning
• Work closely with our Product leaders to allocate resources to our company priorities and create technical solutions to user problems and needs.
• Use a "Product Management" mindset to engage with internal and external stakeholders to align on engineering vision, strategy, and priorities that deliver measurable results. You should be able to present and drive alignment around the vision and strategy to create a clear long-range roadmap in partnership with the Product Team.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of software engineering experience as an individual contributor
• 4+ years as an engineering leader
• Extensive experience scaling a software engineering team and a product development process
• Excellent communicator and collaborator; able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Thought leadership in process development, team organization, and quality standards
• Strategic organization design skills to assess team needs and hire accordingly
• Experience with web, mobile development, and QA
• Experience with at least one of the following: Django, React, GolangExperience with AWS / GCP.

What we offer

• A varied and challenging role in a multinational and highly innovative company
• A robust benefits package includes health insurance, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, employee stock option plan, paid parental leave, 13 paid company holidays, and much more.
• Development and further training opportunities for shaping and realizing your career goals
• Exceptional colleagues with a passion for EdTech


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GoGuardian is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. GoGuardian does not discriminate against employees, applicants, interns or volunteers on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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