Job Description

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.

HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead one or more teams of software engineers working within an international Technology Solutions Group that has teams across the United States, Europe and Canada. Using your strong technical background and leadership skills, you will foster a productive engineering culture and provide technical leadership, motivation, and guidance to your teams. You will be accountable for quality of development efforts, implementation of AI strategies, performing code reviews, promoting engineering best practices, as well as working with Architecture and Product teams to determine the best technical solutions. You will partner with Product Owners to define the roadmap and the overall strategic visionfor your area of the business. You will be a key guide to engineers for their career development, yearly goal-setting and performance management, and ensure the teams are aware of the expectations of their role, and of the team generally. You will support the recruiting processes for your teams.
Leading Teams & Strategic Planning:

• You will be responsible for leading teams to design and deliver major software components, and collaborate with Product, Architect, QA and other teams and functions in the process.
• As a leader you will translate HMH’s strategic vision and strategy into action, helping your teams understand their role in realizing this vision.
• You will be adept at building collaborative, motivated, interdependent teams who will work with product, design and architecture teams in the delivery of software products.
• You can demonstrate effective communication within the Engineering group, and across business functions.
• You foster a growth mindset and support engineers in advancing their technical depth and leadership capabilities. You play a leading role in attracting, hiring and retaining talent. You encourage innovation through tech talks, internal demos, and knowledge-sharing sessions.

Engineering Expertise:

• You will use your engineering knowledge to identify and solve problems, to assist with development activities and to foresee potential issues and risks. You will manage risks and ensure effective escalation of issues which impact other teams.
• You will promote a creative culture that stimulates innovative approaches to solving problems. You encourage proactive, open communication and collaboration within your teams and between other teams and groups.
• Quality is non-negotiable in delivery. You will ensure high quality standards and practices are followed in your team(s) and the end product is robust, high-availability best-in-class software applications.

How We Work (Competencies):

• A focus on customers – our goal is to make products which delight our customers
• Foster engagement – you will be responsible for building engaged, motivated teams
• Value differences – we rely on a cross-collaborative culture where diverse opinions and ideas are encouraged.
• Drive results – when our teams know what to do, you will ensure our end goals are met
• Instill Trust – build your teams’ network within our Technology Solutions Group

Technology Stack at HMH:

• We give you the best tools and latest technologies to keep you learning and growing. Here’s a small sample of our tech stack;
• Methodology - Scrum, Lean and Agile
• Microservices - Java, Spring Boot, Maven, NodeJS, Typescript
• Cloud/Container technologies - AWS, Docker and Kubernetes
• Management and Monitoring tools - Jira, Confluence, Datadog, PagerDuty
• Database technologies - PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MySQL, Elastic Search
• CI/CD - Jenkins, Concourse, GitHub Actions
• QE tools - jUnit / xUnit, BrowserStack, Jmeter
• Web technologies – PHP, ReactJS, Angular, Node/NPM

Skills & Experience:

• 12+ years of experience in Software Engineering
• 3 to 5 years' end-to-end people management experience
• Experience working with a team on a large project in an Agile environment.
• Experience with test-driven development, building test plans, unit tests, and automated testing frameworks
• Experience in analyzing and scaling large systems, backend development in Java/Spring Boot, or DevOps/infrastructure tasks.
• Development experience with languages such as PHP, Java, ReactJS, Angular
• Experience building web services using APIs and services like REST, SOAP, etc.
• Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Proficient with code versioning tools such as SVN and Git
• Knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS/Azure)
• Knowledge of AI and Generative AI

Required Education:

• A BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a STEM field

The Information Technology organization is transforming to realize our mission: Become a leader in HMH’s digital transformation, and as a strategic partner, innovate and deliver highest value, competitive advantage solutions across all corporate and business functions. Our ambition is to be a digital leader through innovation and develop and deliver leading edge technology such as robotic process automation and artificial intelligence to solve some of HMH’s greatest operational business challenges. Our professionals will have business relevant skills to connect our HMH partners to technologies that propel the businesses to deliver the greatest value for HMH and our customers.

We are building a team of IT professionals with an insatiable appetite to learn, a relentless focus on customer service, a technological curiosity toward future possibilities, and a creativity in solving business challenges with leading technologies. Our team will find ways to work together, create a sense of community where it’s safe to take risks and learn together, develop our careers, and all have an opportunity to work on new technologies. We will work together, learn together and have fun together. As a team, we will lead HMH’s digital transformation.