Engineering Lead / Architect

Company Overview:
Do you enjoy making a difference in a child's life, transforming education, and evolving learning? Come join Teachstone, the interaction company! Teachstone® was founded in 2008 to deliver the Classroom Assessment Scoring System® (CLASS®) nationwide and around the globe. Developed through years of research, the CLASS observation tool measures the interactions between teachers and children, which have been shown to drive learning and lifelong achievement. Teachstone helps organizations conduct classroom observations and provides professional development so that teachers improve, and children learn more. Our online subscription service, myTeachstone, simplifies CLASS implementation by combining observation data with a robust library of CLASS resources and professional development.

At Teachstone, everything we do is about improving the ways teachers interact with their students. We train coaches and observers, build and deliver online support programs, design professional development – all of it grounded in one proven fact: the interactions teachers have with students have a lasting impact on their academic and developmental success. By helping educators describe, measure and improve their interactions and relationships with students, Teachstone is transforming education nationwide, one interaction at a time.

Why This Role Matters:

You will strengthen and elevate our engineering teams as we provide professional development solutions to our customers, ensuring our services are user-friendly, scalable, secure, and easy for internal teams to monitor and manage. This role operates across multiple initiatives and teams rather than being permanently embedded within a single product area.

This is a great fit for you if you:

• Excel at fostering effective collaboration to build great products and services
• Grow engineers' skills through mentoring and coaching
• Are exceptional at empowering teams to create scalable solutions
• Enable teams to design and deliver systems that remain maintainable, scalable, and cost-efficient over time
• Engage in continuous learning and improvement
• Have both breadth and depth in software engineering - hands-on and leading many small teams

What You Will Do:

• Shape and evolve engineering standards and shared technical patterns across teams.
• Ensure products and services maintain high quality, reliability, and measurable value
• Mentor and coach less experienced engineers across the Engineering team
• Identify, track, and report on key quality measures of product engagement and value
• Provide architectural leadership to empowered product teams, guiding the design and evolution of high-quality, scalable systems.

What You Bring:

• Guide teams in making architectural decisions that balance speed, cost, scalability, and maintainability.
• Translate user and business needs into scalable architectural solutions and guide their implementation
• Influence multiple teams to elevate engineering quality and consistency across the organization
• Partner with product to manage priorities, scope of work, and risk
• Strong knowledge of data design and experience with relational and non-relational databases
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including scaling, performance optimization, security, privacy, and third-party integrations
• Experience leading the development of customer-facing, full-stack, mobile-friendly web applications 
• Experience designing and evolving robust system architectures using AWS or another public cloud provider
• Senior-level proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and at least two of the following: Java, Ruby, Python, Objective-C, Swift, Kotlin, or other programming languages.

What We Offer:

Fair, Competitive Pay: We ensure equal pay for equal work, using consistent salary bands based on market benchmarks, reviewed annually. Prior salaries, negotiation skills, or fear of conflict don’t influence your pay.
Salary Range: $131,800 - $164,700, determined by your experience and skills.
Comprehensive Benefits: Medical/dental, 401(k), PTO, insurance, development opportunities. Details provided at offer. Eligibility depends on your role and employment status.

Ready to Make a Difference?
At Teachstone, we believe that every interaction shapes a brighter future. If you're passionate about transforming education and want to be part of a team that's committed to meaningful impact, we want to hear from you. Apply today and help us create classrooms where every child thrives!

At Teachstone, we encourage all individuals to apply and bring their unique perspectives to our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We value the different experiences and ideas our team members bring and believe they are essential to solving complex challenges and driving our mission forward.