Engineering Manager

This is a chance to lead a world-class team of Software Engineers while also owning the tooling, systems, and performance visibility infrastructure that ensures we have the most efficient tools to deliver transformative solutions to schools worldwide.   We're a 125-person EdTech scale-up powering learning in 120+ countries, helping students and teachers thrive through an intelligent platform that combines rich, interactive pedagogy with smart AI and data. Why join Kognity? - Work on problems that matter – Your work directly influences the lives of teachers and students in over 100 countries. The scale is global, and the outcomes are tangible. - High ownership, high expectations – You are trusted to take initiative, make decisions and drive outcomes. Responsibility comes early, accountability is real, and results matter. - A fast-moving, high-performing team – You will work with smart, driven colleagues across the globe on complex problems. Standards and expectations are high, feedback is direct, and the pace is fast. - Continuous growth is the baseline – Everyone is expected and supported to learn quickly, improve constantly and raise their own bar. If you enjoy responsibility, momentum and meaningful challenge, you will thrive here. What you'll do: - Manage and grow a team of 5 software engineers, owning their delivery, development, and day-to-day leadership. - Own the engineering operating system: tooling, vendor lifecycle management, on-call staffing, and platform support, so engineers never lose time to broken processes or the wrong buy-versus-build decision. - Own engineering performance visibility: build and maintain shared metrics infrastructure across investment tracking, shipping pace, and quality, surfacing signals before they become problems. - Own investment bucket visibility and financial reporting for engineering, keeping data quality high and definitions consistent across the org. - Push the boundaries of how we build: champion agentic and LLM-powered workflows across the engineering org, ensuring we're using the latest AI tooling to ship faster and stay ahead as a technology-led education company What we're looking for: - Proven experience managing a software engineering team, from day to day delivery ownership through to people development and performance management. - A strong engineering background as a senior, staff or principal engineer, with the credibility to earn trust from senior engineers fast and the judgement to make good calls when they don't have all the answers. - Experience owning tooling, vendor relationships or infrastructure decisions, including build versus buy calls, contract renewals and on-call setup, comfortable splitting attention between running a team and owning systems the rest of engineering depends on. - A track record of building or maintaining engineering metrics infrastructure, someone who treats shipping pace, quality and investment data as seriously as the code itself. - Experience leveraging agentic or LLM powered workflows to speed up decisions, execution or engineering output, and genuine interest in pushing that further. How we hire 1. Discovery call with a Recruiter 2. Hiring manager discussion 3. Case study 4. Values discussion 5. Leadership talk 6. References Every qualified person will be evaluated regardless of age, gender, identity, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status or religion. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive team and welcome people of all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities. See more about how we collect and process your personal data in our Privacy Notice https://kognity.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Kognity-Recruitment-Privacy-Notice_0326.pdf.