Engineering Manager

About us


Our vision is to radically improve learning for the world's 1.5 billion school students. We believe all students should have access to modern and engaging learning experiences. Our digital learning platform with curriculum aligned textbooks aims to redefine modern learning by increasing student engagement and allowing for more progressive teaching methods. Kognity is used by 1052 schools across 112 countries and we’ve just raised $20M to launch in the US. Come join us and build truly meaningful products for the world’s young people. We offer flexible working - you can work anywhere in your country of employment, and we also have a lovely office in Stockholm where you're welcome any time.


Do you thrive in building, coaching and managing engineering teams? Do you have a technical background and read a lot on leadership, technical excellence, product development? Always want to improve? We are looking for you to join our development teams in Stockholm.


Together we help students globally to radically improve their learning abilities. You’ll be working closely with our cross-functional autonomous product teams of engineers, product managers, designers and tech leads, to ensure high-value delivery that truly improves learning. You’ll also be collaborating with our CTO and Engineers on tech-wide matters such as hiring, leadership, defining new roles, refining processes and development methodology.


To enjoy taking on this opportunity you'll need to be comfortable driving organisation changes, communicating clearly and making the decisions needed. As a leader you’ll collaborate with other supportive leaders across the organisation.
Responsibilities
Attracting and hiring top engineers
Onboarding, coaching and retaining engineers, through regular 1:1’s, feedback conversations and support.
Drive and improve our technical processes and frameworks across teams (e.g. how we work, our progression framework & career paths, incident management process)
Drive, identify, facilitate and guide teams in continuous improvements and team dynamics to ensure we are the best team we can be
Drive technical projects and work closely with product teams to successfully develop their products, through great engineering and organisation practises

Requirements
A technical background and interest in software engineering.
Solid leadership experience, leading with openness, humility and radical candor.
The ability to motivate and inspire people around vision and plans.
Experience hiring and managing engineering teams in product organisations.

Benefits
We offer flexible working (meaning you can work from anywhere in Sweden or our Stockholm office, your choice).
Culture - 70 people, 20 nationalities, a shared passion for improving learning for the world’s school children
A yearly budget to spend on health related services - gym memberships, exercise classes etc
30 days of paid vacation every year
MacBook, mobile phone, home office days and other nice-to-haves

We have a hybrid working model that you can tailor to suit what works best for you. From October onwards we're asking our staff to come into our lovely Stockholm office near Karlaplan at least two days a week and then to choose what works best for them for the rest of the time.


Kognity is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates. Please refrain from including your picture and age with your application.


Please note that we do not accept any applications through email due to GDPR.


Please submit your application in English.