Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY

Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to deliver a free, world-class education to anyone anywhere. Our proven learning platform offers free, high-quality supplemental learning resources that cover Pre-K - 12th grade and early college core academic subjects, with a focus on math and science.  We have over 155 million registered learners globally and are committed to improving learning outcomes for students around the world, with a focus on learners in historically under-resourced communities. 

OUR COMMUNITY

Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life, and so do we.  Our team includes people from academia, traditional/non-traditional education, big tech companies, and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences because it makes our company stronger.  We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as necessary to achieve our mission and impact the communities we serve.  We know that transforming education starts in-house with learning about ourselves and our colleagues. We strive to be world-class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.

THE ROLE

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to help manage web and mobile frontend-related functions of our Infrastructure organization. This role will:

• Drive delivery on frontend infrastructure goals through direct people management.
• Build and grow experts/leaders through feedback and attention to personal career development. 
• Partner with architects and other engineering managers to make sure our product architecture, performance, and quality meet the needs of our users.
• Empower engineers and support them with tools and processes to efficiently deliver amazing user experiences. 

You can read about our latest work on our Engineering Blog. A few highlights:

• Incremental Rewrites with GraphQL
• Our Transition to React Native
• Go + Services = One Goliath Project
• How Engineering Principles Can Help You Scale
• How to upgrade hundreds of React components without breaking production

WHAT YOU BRING

• At least 7 years of experience managing teams of software engineers
• Experience with Agile development and methodologies; web and mobile application architecture and development
• Experience with design systems, shared component libraries, and working with designers
• Experience with frontend-centric DevOps, including test running, linting, end-to-end tests, dev servers, and server-side rendering
• The ability to manage a diverse and distributed team of engineers from all backgrounds
• Strong communication skills, both spoken and written — a history of blogging or essay-writing is helpful
• To command technical respect — you can dive into technical …