Senior Engineering Manager

The Princeton Review; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Princeton Review seeks an accomplished software engineering leader to guide and grow a team of engineers. You will contribute hands-on to code and architecture while driving modern SDLC practices and AI-assisted development.

You will mentor engineers, foster collaboration with Product and Design, and ensure high-quality, scalable software that aligns with business goals.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of people management leading engineering teams.
• Hands-on with CI/CD, automated testing, and short release cycles.

Responsibilities

• Contribute hands-on to code, architecture, and design while leading your team.
• Design and implement modern engineering practices: CI/CD, automated testing, code review, feature flagging, static code analysis.
• Champion AI-assisted development to raise engineering quality and velocity.
• Mentor engineers and build a high-performing team.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to translate goals into technical plans.
• Communicate across technical and non-technical audiences and drive KPIs.

Skills

CI/CD

Automated testing

Code review

AI-assisted development

Team leadership

Architectural design

Tools

C# .NET

React

Job description

About the Position

The Princeton Review is a leading tutoring, test prep, and college admission services company. Every year, it helps millions of college- and graduate school-bound students achieve their education and career goals through online and in-person courses delivered by a network of more than 4,000 teachers and tutors, online resources, and its more than 150 print and digital books published by Penguin Random House. The company’s Tutor.com brand is one of the largest online tutoring services in the U.S. It comprises a community of thousands of tutors who have delivered more than 22 million one-to-one tutoring sessions. The Princeton Review is headquartered in New York, NY. Follow the company on LinkedIn, YouTube and Instagram.

Reporting Structure:

• This position reports to the VP Engineering.
• This position will initially manage up to 8 engineers with a mandate to help stand up the org's first layer of engineering management over the next two quarters.

What You'll Do

Technical Leadership

• Contribute hands-on to code, architecture, and technical design while leading your team (target 40/60 IC/management split, adjusting as the team matures)
• Help design and implement modern engineering practices: CI/CD, automated testing, code review, feature flagging, and static code analysis
• Champion effective, responsible adoption of AI-assisted development. Tools that raise the ceiling on engineer output and code quality, not shortcuts that create new technical debt

Team Development & Change Management

• Build and develop a high-performing team through effective coaching, feedback, and career development, including engineers new to modern SDLC practices
• Support the implementation of clear expectations, ceremonies, and standards. Bring engineers along with the "why," not top-down mandates
• As part of a small engineering leadership team, foster a culture of psychological safety, collaboration, and continuous learning
• Mentor engineers as they move from reactive, deadline-driven delivery to sustainable ownership of their systems end to end

Delivery & Collaboration

• Support your reports delivery from conception through production support while meeting quarterly deadlines
• Build software that's scalable and maintainable by design, and delightful for the people using it
• Partner with Product and Design to translate business goals into clear technical plans and ensure consistent execution
• Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring alignment and managing dependencies
• Drive measurable improvements in engineering KPIs

Who You Are

• You have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with 3+ years of people management experience leading engineering teams
• You have led or been a driving force on a team operating with real CI/CD, automated testing, and short release cycles. You know what "great" looks like because you've built it, not just read about it
• You can demonstrate a history of results in some or all of the following domains:
• C# .NET
• React
• You have hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools as part of a disciplined engineering practice
• You are a change agent with a track record of driving process improvements in CI/CD, testing, quality assurance, or other SDLC process toolchains
• You balance strategic thinking with tactical execution. The ability to zoom out to see the org-level picture while diving into technical details when needed
• You excel at developing others, including coaching experienced engineers helping them grow their technical and professional capabilities
• You communicate with clarity and empathy, adapting your style to your audience and building trust across diverse stakeholders
• You demonstrate sound judgment balancing tradeoffs between scope, quality, speed, and long-term technical health
• You model collaborative, inclusive leadership that creates psychological safety and empowers team members to do their best work
• You take ownership and accountability for both individual and team outcomes, addressing challenges proactively and with integrity
• Modern SDLC Ownership - Operates and teaches a full-lifecycle model: engineers own design, build, test, deploy, and support for what they ship.
• Change Leadership - Drives organizational change through transparency and incremental wins rather than top-down mandates; brings people along rather than around them.
• AI-Augmented Engineering - Uses AI tooling to raise engineering quality and velocity, with the judgment to know where it helps and where it introduces risk.
• Develops Others - Builds the capabilities and skills of engineers by increasing their effectiveness in current roles and accelerating their potential for new ones; provides feedback and creates growth assignments.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Works cooperatively with Product, Design, and other engineering leaders, leveraging each other's skills and knowledge in pursuit of a shared roadmap.
• Advanced Technical Expertise - Demonstrates depth of knowledge across multiple substantive areas of software systems, programming languages, and technical components.