Job Description

Your Impact

2U and edX have joined together and are dedicated to building a global marketplace that enables access to top education content from around the world. As the Engineering Manager for the edX Marketplace Engineering team, you’ll be at the forefront of bringing new capabilities to the edX search experience and impacting the broader 2U strategy. Your team will be instrumental in scaling the platform that enables millions of users to have a personalized and engaging experience when learning online.

Your Team

This is a cross-functional product development team that works to optimize the platform’s search, course catalog, and discovery experience. The team works closely with product management, product design (UX/UI), and members of other engineering and marketing teams. This group leverages both industry research and insights through A/B testing to identify feature areas that help learners engage with course content. This team largely works on the front-end using ReactJS

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

• Leading, coaching, evaluating, and mentoring a team of ~5 software engineers
• Recruiting and hiring new team members
• Partnering cross-functionally to understand customer needs; identify, define, and scope solutions; and achieve organizational goals
• Building a high performing agile team
• Identifying opportunities to accelerate the delivery of value to customers and implement solutions that span people, processes, and technology
• Stewardship of quality user experiences including participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation and proactive management of security and data privacy
• Building strong relationships with cross-functional peers in Product Management, Product Design, Marketing, and Data Analytics to unlock force-multiplying collaboration

Things That Should Be In Your Background:

• Experience working as an engineering manager, team lead, or tech lead
• Previous hands-on software development experience, ideally with JavaScript
• Demonstrated experience with Agile methods and practices

Other Attributes That Will Help You In This Role:

• Key mindsets: always improving, experiment-first, systems thinking, and customer-centric
• A willingness and ability to move forward through high ambiguity and uncertainty
• Thoughtful organization and prioritization of your own time to maximize your impact

Technology in the edX ecosystem:

• React, Typescript, Gatsby, GraphQL
• Microfrontends Architecture
• Contentful
• Algolia, Amplitude, Optimizely
• Python, Django
• NNGINX, Docker, k8s
• GitHub
• GoCD & ArgoCD
• Splunk
• New Relic
• AWS

About edX

edX is the education movement for restless learners. Together with our founding partners Harvard and MIT, we’ve brought together more than 38 million learners, the majority of top-ranked universities in the world, and industry-leading companies onto one online learning platform that supports learners at every stage. And we’re not stopping there—as a global nonprofit, we’re relentlessly pursuing our vision of a world where every learner can access education to unlock their potential, without the barriers of cost or location.

About 2U, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWOU)

2U is comprised of 3 lines of business: Graduate Degree Programs, Short Course, and Boot Camps. Going beyond traditional learning management systems, we use tech, people, and data to help top universities and enterprise organizations transform in the digital era—and eliminate the back row in higher ed. We support lifelong learning which means thinking beyond a single degree. It means finding ways for students to gain the skills they need to change careers, evolve their expertise, and meet the challenges of the changing world head-on. We help our partners fill those needs—developing new digital education technologies and offerings capable of supporting students at different points in their lives. Whether they need a simple refresher, to learn something new, or to change their career trajectories completely, our partners are there to help them succeed. Together with our partners, 2U has positively transformed the lives of more than 275,000 students and lifelong learners.

2U Diversity and Inclusion Statement

At 2U, we are committed to creating and sustaining a culture that embodies diverse walks of life, ideas, genders, ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities and other unique qualities of our employees. We strive to offer a workplace where every employee feels empowered by the ways in which we are different, as well as the ways in which we are the same.

Benefits & Culture

Working at 2U means working with individuals that are passionate and mission driven. We collaborate on tough problems to deliver the best outcomes for our partners, students, and each other. You will find team members working together in our open office spaces, gathered in the kitchen grabbing a snack, or taking a break in our game rooms.

2U offers a comprehensive benefits package:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Life insurance, disability and 401(k)
• Unlimited snacks and drinks
• Generous paid leave policies including unlimited PTO
• Additional time off benefits include: volunteer days, parental leave, and a company-wide winter break

In Colorado, the anticipated base salary for this role is $125,000.00 with potential bonus and equity eligibility. Note: The final compensation for this position may consider factors including the geographic location where the work is performed (candidate’s assigned office) and prior work experience of the candidate.

To learn more, visit 2U.com. #NoBackRow

Note: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this position, and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

2U is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against applicants or employees and ensures equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of their race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, marital status, disability, citizenship, military or veterans’ status, or any other classifications protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. 2U’s equal opportunity policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, job benefits and pay.

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Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 100,000 and above.

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