Engineering Manager

Job description

This is a chance to lead a team of software engineers while also owning the tooling, systems, and performance visibility infrastructure behind Kognity's engineering organisation. 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 call. - 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. What we're looking for: - A strong engineering background as a senior, staff or principal engineer, with the credibility to earn trust from senior engineers quickly. - Proven experience managing a software engineering team, including people development, performance management and delivery ownership. - Experience owning tooling, vendor relationships or infrastructure decisions, including build versus buy calls, contract renewals and on-call setup, and comfort splitting attention between running a team day to day and owning cross-cutting systems that other teams depend on. - A systems thinker with a bias for simplification, someone who can find the version of a process, tool or metric that's 60% simpler and 90% as good. - Experience leveraging AI tools to enhance creativity, decisions, and execution 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.