Engineering Manager - Application Experience

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We’re building a movement - an education revolution.

We’re building a world where anyone, anywhere can have access to the best education regardless of where they were born. At our core, we believe education is a right, not a privilege. To that end, we’re building a company and a suite of products to lead the charge in transforming access to education.

ApplyBoard is an online platform that empowers students around the world to access the best education by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and academic institutions. We simplify the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process. Not only do we help students with their study abroad journey, but we also help academic institutions to find the best students globally. Our goal is to help enable better, more diverse, schools that are enriched with cultures from all over the world.

The Opportunity:

As part of the Application Experience team, your mission is to deliver a best-in-class experience for Students & Applicants from discovery to admission

You will help drive acquisition of students by measurably improving awareness, consideration, and decisions leading to an increase in in-cart Applications. The team you would be joining is also responsible for ensuring that ApplyBoard delivers an optimal workflow that results in a high level of Cart-to-Admission conversion.

This position is for someone that likes to tackle the both the technical and user experience challenge of making large sets of information easy to consume, comprehensible, and easy to navigate, but most importantly - relevant.

What you’ll be doing every day:

• Lead multiple engineering teams at ApplyBoard by example in the practice and promotion of excellence in software engineering
• Provide hands-on technical management, guidance, and support including system/design/code review, and ultimately be responsible for the health of the systems your teams build.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
• Management of staffing, mentoring, growing, and maintaining a best-of-class software engineering team.
• Participation in interviewing, hiring decisions, on-boarding, and mentoring of new engineers with the goal of quickly making them productive members of your team
• Work closely with others in a cross-functional team to deliver high-quality software
  
  

What you bring to the table:

• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience leading teams as a manager or team lead
• A history of establishing teams by developing leaders and recruiting exceptional talent
• Excellent communication skills and a history of working with various internal and external stakeholders
• Strong experience with agile methodologies of software development
• Experience and passion advocating for and mentoring others in software development best practices appropriate for the domain
• Knowledge of a variety of programming paradigms and languages, design patterns, tech stacks and frameworks - and the trade-offs entailed in choosing among them
• A high level of skill and craftsmanship in building software that stands the test of time
• Ability to explain and defend an informed opinion while maintaining an open mind
• A love of learning, a constant drive for self-improvement and a desire to help everyone be better
  
  

Ideally, you also have experience with many of:

• Developing and maintaining products that are used by many thousands or millions of people
• Ruby, Rails, React, Node.js, Typescript, or python
• Kafka, Amazon MQ, RabbitMQ or similar streaming or messaging systems
• EdTech, eCommerce, or content-management software
• Relational databases, ORM frameworks, and their alternatives
• Microservices or SOA; RESTful APIs, JSON
• AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, ELK stack
• DevOps, Observability, Infrastructure as Code
  
  

What We Offer:

• The opportunity to have a huge impact on a product that is positively changing the lives of thousands of students every day
• Working alongside a brilliant and globally diverse team based in Waterloo and Toronto
• Great compensation and benefits package to keep you healthy and happy!
  
  

Life at ApplyBoard:

By joining our team, you have the opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing technology companies, not only in Canada but the world. With that, you will have many opportunities for professional growth and advancement. Work alongside a globally diverse team of more than 1,000 team members from 25+ countries , representing 30+ nationalities , and speaking 50+ languages.

Make a difference in the lives of thousands of students as they explore educational opportunities.

About ApplyBoard:

ApplyBoard empowers students around the world to access the best education by simplifying the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process to more than 1,500 institutions across Canada, Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. ApplyBoard, headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, has helped more than 200,000 students from more than 125 countries along their educational journeys since 2015.

ApplyBoard was named the fastest-growing technology company in Canada by Deloitte, ranking #1 on the Technology Fast 50™ list in 2019 and #2 in 2020. ApplyBoard was also been named to LinkedIn’s list of Top Startups in 2020 and TechTO’s list of top Canadian Rocketship companies to accelerate your career in the Tech Industry.

In 2021, ApplyBoard announced a C$375M Series D funding on a C$4B valuation. This funding will allow us to further invest in our technology, grow our team around the world, and serve more students on our mission to educate the world. Thank you for your interest in ApplyBoard. Please note that only qualified applicants that have been selected for an interview will be contacted.