Engineering Manager

C&C Search; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 183,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible PTO and Paid Parental Leave

Comprehensive health, vision, and dent

Mental healthcare services

Professional development budget

Annual company retreat + team events

Job summary

Clever seeks an Engineering Manager for the Classroom Experience team, overseeing the Clever Portal and related user-facing products. You will scale interfaces from kindergartners to administrators, ensuring robust, fast experiences and secure access to learning apps.

You will partner with Product, Design, and Marketing to shape the roadmap, mentor engineers, and drive best practices across distributed teams while maintaining high availability and security.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, mentoring and coaching engineers at all levels.
• 5+ years of software development experience with full-stack architecture and system design.
• Familiarity with AI coding tools to enhance development workflow.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team that scales our primary classroom user interfaces and connects users to learning apps.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Marketing to define roadmap and drive best practices.
• Hire and develop world-class engineering talent and ensure high-uptime, secure access to learning.

Skills

People Leadership

Technical Foundation

AI Development Tools

Cultural Alignment

Operational Excellence

Communication & Collaboration

Inclusive Leadership

Tools

Go

Node.js

TypeScript

React

AWS

Job description

Clever is on a mission to connect every student to a world of learning. As the leading identity platform for education, more than 111,000 schools worldwide use Clever to power secure digital learning experiences. With Clever’s layered security solutions, schools can protect access and identities for all staff, teachers, and students. With a secure identity platform for schools and a network of leading application providers, Clever is committed to advancing education with technology that works for students everywhere. Clever, a Kahoot! company, has an office in San Francisco, CA, but you can visit us at clever.com anytime.

About the Team & Opportunity

The Classroom Experience team at Clever builds the digital gateway to the classroom. As the Engineering Manager, you will lead the team responsible for our most visible products, including the Clever Portal—the daily starting point for millions of students and teachers. We are hiring a leader to help us expand our reach from the classroom into new frontiers like browser extensions and beyond, including future explorations of resource access outside our core products. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will manage the execution of our most visible user-facing products, hire and develop world-class engineering talent, and ensure that our technical strategy continues to provide simple, secure access to learning for everyone.

How You’ll Make an Impact

The problem you’ll solve: You will lead the team that scales our primary classroom user interfaces, connecting users to their learning applications through interfaces that work for kindergarteners in the classroom, through to administrators in the central office, and ensuring that the experience remains robust, delightful, and lightning-fast.

Who you’ll partner with: You will be a key strategic partner to Product, Design, and Marketing to define our roadmap, while working alongside other Engineering Managers to drive organizational best practices.

What success looks like

Success is a high-performing, inclusive team that delivers reliable, business-critical software, meets 99.98%+ uptime targets, and fosters a culture of continuous mentorship and professional growth.

Key projects you’ll lead

You will drive the execution of accessible UIs and next-generation APIs that drive expanded, simple, and secure access to learning applications.

What We’re Looking For

Required Skills & Experience (Must-Haves)

• People Leadership: 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with a proven ability to build high-impact teams — mentoring and coaching engineers at all levels while holding a consistently high bar.
• Technical Foundation: 5+ years of software development experience with strong fundamentals in full-stack architecture and system design, along with familiarity with how core authentication concepts extend to device-level login.
• AI Development Tools: Familiarity with leveraging AI coding tools (such as Claude Code or Cursor) to enhance development workflow, productivity, and code quality.
• Cultural Alignment: A commitment to understand and prioritize the Clever engineering culture (see our blog post on Defining Clever's Engineering Culture).
• Operational Excellence: Experience with operational change management and process improvement.
• Communication & Collaboration: Excellent communication skills and the ability to manage distributed, remote teams while building alignment across cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Inclusive Leadership: A deep commitment to building diverse and inclusive teams where every voice is heard.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves)

• Consumer-Facing Scale: Experience managing teams that build products for millions of concurrent users.
• High Availability: Experience managing business-critical services with strict uptime requirements (99.98%+).
• Technology Proficiency: Familiarity with our core technologies, including Go, Node.js, TypeScript, and React , managing services within the AWS Ecosystem, and native device technologies.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary
• Flexible PTO and Paid Parental Leave
• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
• Mental healthcare services
• Professional development budget
• Annual company retreat + team events

Salary Transparency

The range of our base salary cash compensation for this role for candidates living in the United States, besides NYC and San Francisco, CA, is between $167,000 - $230,000 . For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco, CA, it’s between $183,000 - $253,000. All final offers are determined using multiple factors, including experience and level of expertise.

Inclusion & Belonging

Clever believes classrooms and our company should be diverse and inclusive. We celebrate actions that build diverse teams, include every voice, and create safe spaces for everyone to bring their authentic selves to work.

Clever does not conduct interviews via text or Telegram.

We will never ask for your financial information or reimbursement of equipment of any kind.

If you are a resident of Colorado, please note you have the right to redact your age-related information like age, birth date, or dates of schooling.