Software Engineering Manager

SuperSummary is transforming how millions of readers discover, understand, and connect with books. We’re building the world’s most comprehensive literature platform — combining over 10,000 expert-crafted Study Guides with interactive, innovative tools that make reading more engaging, rewarding, and fun.

Beyond summaries, our paid subscription offers chapter-by-chapter analysis, character breakdowns, themes and symbols exploration, thought-provoking discussion questions, and interactive quizzes. Our growing suite of AI-powered features helps readers engage more deeply with texts, whether they’re students tackling assignments, teachers preparing lessons, book clubs seeking richer conversations, or lifelong learners exploring new genres.

Founded over a decade ago, SuperSummary’s website and mobile app have become a trusted, go-to resource for curious readers worldwide. We’re part of the Lift Ventures portfolio of EdTech brands (with over 250 million consumers reached to date) and are a fully remote, global team united by curiosity, creativity, and a shared love of learning.

About the Job

SuperSummary is looking for a Software Engineering Manager to help lead our engineering team. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you’ll own your team’s delivery, quality, and career development, and partner closely with Product and Design to build the right things at the right time. This is primarily a people-leadership role, with enough hands-on technical involvement to guide architecture, unblock engineers, and uphold high standards.

As an AI-native product organization, we expect our engineering leaders to lead by example — helping the team apply AI tools thoughtfully across the development lifecycle to move faster and raise quality while protecting data and validating outputs. If you’re energized by developing engineers and improving how a small, remote team ships software, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities

Engineer Management & Development

• Manage the deliveries, performance, and growth of each engineer on your team.

• Support engineers in their career progression, helping them strengthen both technical and soft skills.

• Conduct regular feedback cycles, establish growth plans, and recognize outstanding contributions. Use our structured career-development framework to set clear expectations and help each engineer advance along our engineering ladder.

• Build and maintain a strong, collaborative team culture focused on excellence, ownership, and growth.

Technical Leadership

• Lead and guide the development of new features, optimizing for cost-efficiency, scalability, and maintainability.

• Oversee technical decisions, ensuring architecture and implementation align with company standards and long-term goals.

• Partner with Senior and Staff Engineers to identify and implement technical improvements.

• Help administer and maintain your team’s tech infrastructure ensuring healthy uptime, reliability, and performance.

• Champion best practices for testing, deployment, and developer experience (DevX).

• Establish engineering standards and best practices that scale beyond your team, raising quality and consistency across the organization.

Project & Process Management

• Own the delivery of your team’s projects with clear goals, accountability, and reliable execution.

• Partner with Product and Design to scope, prioritize, and plan initiatives.

• Monitor processes across the full product lifecycle, from discovery to launch.

• Identify bottlenecks, improve workflows, and drive initiatives that increase team velocity and product quality.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Translate technical trade-offs into clear decisions with Product, Design, and stakeholders.

• Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs effectively to keep the organization aligned.

• Partner with leadership on planning, resourcing, and technical direction.

Sample Projects

• Team Health & Delivery Baseline: In your first 90 days, assess how the team works and establish the rituals, feedback loops, and delivery practices that help it ship reliably and improve.

• Reliability & Performance Initiative: Lead a cross-functional effort to improve Core Web Vitals and API response times, from instrumentation through the work to hit new targets.

• AI-Assisted Development Workflow: Pilot and roll out AI tooling across your squad’s development lifecycle — prototyping, code review, testing, and documentation — with clear guardrails for data protection and output validation, and measure the impact on speed and quality.

• Testing & Deployment Modernization: Audit your team’s test coverage and deployment pipeline, then champion improvements that raise coverage, reduce failed deploys, and improve developer experience.

Requirements

What you’ll bring

• 8+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent

• 3+ years leading and managing engineers

• Fluent near-native English for spoken and written communication

• Proven ability to lead teams and deliver complex technical projects from planning through execution.

• Track record of building high-performance teams

• Proficiency in one or more of our core technology stack — Ruby on Rails, React, Flutter

• Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and modern development practices.

• Professional experience with relational databases.

• Experience balancing product impact with technical excellence and maintainability.

• Excellent communication and people management skills, with the ability to coach and inspire.

• Comfort using AI tools across the development lifecycle to improve speed and quality.

What sets you apart

• Hands-on experience shipping AI-powered product features.

• Breadth across web and mobile development (e.g., React and Flutter).

• Experience operating at a company- or organization-wide level of influence — setting engineering standards and mentoring other leads or managers.

• Experience leading remote, distributed teams across North and South America.

Benefits

• Work with a distributed, global team that has been remote-first since 2018

• Competitive salary in USD

• Flexible working hours and location

• Health & wellness stipend

• Workspace improvement stipend

• Holidays and Paid Time Off

• Well-structured individual career & development plan for engineers

• Professional development and learning stipend

SuperSummary is a fully remote, global team united by curiosity, ownership, and a shared love of learning. We build better products by hiring people from a wide range of backgrounds, and we especially encourage women, LGBTQ+ people, and others underrepresented in tech to apply. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every qualification, we still want to hear from you.