Remote Engineering Director Hands-on Leader in EdTech

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Remote; USD 210,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Royper Royco LLC is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead multiple product engineering teams building scheduling tools for K-12 education. You will connect engineering priorities to business outcomes while remaining hands-on as the team scales.

You will own delivery across squads, guide architecture decisions, and collaborate with product and school-facing partners. The role blends leadership with hands-on coding and aims to deliver AI-enabled features ahead of the school scheduling

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering management across multiple teams and scale experience.
• Experience leading managers and guiding teams through major technical decisions.
• Strong backend architecture and design with hands-on coding capability.
• Experience in K-12 education technology or related learning fields.
• Proficiency with TypeScript or Python; experience with React, AWS, and MongoDB.
• Excellent communication, comfort with ambiguity, and translating technical decisions into business outcomes.
• Ability to travel for periodic company retreats and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery across multiple product squads, including scheduling, reporting and visibility, and elementary school experiences.
• Contribute code, review work, and pair with engineers, with an initial focus split of roughly half hands-on work and half leadership.
• Guide technical architecture decisions to support platform reliability and future growth.
• Partner with product and school-facing stakeholders to set squad goals and align engineering priorities with business outcomes.
• Deliver valuable product features ahead of the school scheduling season, including AI-powered capabilities.

Tools

TypeScript

Python

React

AWS

MongoDB

Job description

Royper Royco LLC is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead multiple product engineering teams building scheduling tools for K-12 education. You will connect engineering priorities to business outcomes while remaining hands-on as the team scales.

You will own delivery across squads, guide architecture decisions, and collaborate with product and school-facing partners. The role blends leadership with hands-on coding and aims to deliver AI-enabled features ahead of the school scheduling