Overview Impact the Moment We’re looking for a Lead Software Engineer at McGraw Hill who thrives on solving problems, exhibits independent creativity, embraces curiosity, and builds strong partnerships with cross-functional teams. If you can balance the art of delivering iterative value to our customers with the science of high-quality engineering, we’d love to hear from you. As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll directly influence the success of our platforms by combining hands-on technical contributions, thoughtful leadership, and a deep understanding of customer needs. You’ll help shape the future of education by building tools and experiences that serve millions of learners and educators every day Your Impact on the Team At McGraw Hill, a Lead Engineer is more than a technical expert — they’re a mentor, a partner, and an advocate. Leads are decision-makers who focus on delivering value iteratively, balancing the desire for the "perfect solution" with practical, impactful progress against team commitments and project timelines. They cultivate trust by fostering collaboration across teams, maintaining a hands-on presence in the codebase, and keeping the team aligned with customer needs and business goals. Leads are opinionated and back up their opinions with data and experience. Leads are advocates for their team members and have as much interest in individual successes on the team as they do in the team’s success. Leads build trust by fostering a welcome, supportive, and humble environment, not through dictation, arrogance, or brute force. We don’t burden our leads with traditional management responsibilities, so you won’t have direct reports. Instead, we empower you to focus on technology, team growth, and product delivery. If your career aspirations include management, we’ll help you get there! As for your hands-on contributions, you will build front-end web interfaces and back-end application code and APIs across our portfolio. This is a “full stack” role, so we are looking for people with experience in both front-end and back-end modern web development. This is a remote position open to applicants within the United States. What You’ll Do: Drive iterative software delivery, focusing on delivering incremental value to customers. Guide your team through leadership and delegation to make quick, informed decisions without sacrificing quality or reliability. Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering, User Experience, and Sales to build partnerships that improve system stability, user experience, and alignment with customer needs. Our products at McGraw Hill are used by millions of people every day. Some have an SLA of 99.99% uptime; stability and quality solutions are key! Own the lifecycle of features and applications, from conception to delivery and beyond, ensuring they deliver meaningful value to educators and learners. Build modern web applications (front-end and back-end) across our portfolio, contributing to code directly and leading by example. Participate in and improve CI/CD pipelines for smooth releases and team confidence. Advocate for the customer, bringing a product-oriented mindset to technical discussions and decisions. Serve as a mentor to engineers, fostering their growth while upholding high engineering standards. About You You have led a team of individual contributor engineers, having come from an engineering background yourself. You have empathy for engineers and balance that with the realities of the business. Your desire to lead is intrinsic; you aren’t chasing a title or feel you “have” to be a lead because a career path forces it. You’re a decisive leader who can balance long-term goals with short-term delivery, focusing on iterative development to deliver customer value incrementally. You’re an empathetic collaborator who actively partners with other departments to build shared success. You thrive in hands-on environments, learning new technologies and problem solving with curiosity and urgency. You think like a customer, understanding their pain points, and wear a “product hat” in technical discussions. You believe in understanding why work is being done and empathizing with the users, not just implementing code and moving onto the next task. You build front-ends with the needs of our users in mind, partnering with our UX team members to build the best experiences for our teachers, students, and other personas. You have a track record of managing and delivering complex projects, ensuring alignment between timelines, quality, and customer expectations. You lead with a humble, supportive approach, inspiring confidence and trust in your team. You consider the need for accessible designs in all steps of the engineering process for those with visual, auditory, sensory, cognitive, and other considerations. You communicate technical concepts effectively with diverse stakeholders, from engineering to business teams. Alignment to our stack (described further in this posting) is nice, but diversity of experience is better. Our Stack Back-end: Go (most common), Java, Node.js, PHP Front-end: TypeScript, Angular, NgRx/RxJS, and Playwright Relational (MySQL and PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB) databases CI/CD and Infrastructure: GitHub (for version control & Actions), CircleCI, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, New Relic Amazon Web Services (AWS): EKS, ECS, RDS, Lambda, and many other services Collaboration: JIRA, Confluence, Zoom, Slack, and Office 365 Why McGraw Hill? We firmly believe in the mission of educating students and helping them succeed. Our teams operate in a collaborative and safe environment where everyone’s input is valued, trusted, and respected. We want to know what you think; we don’t want “feature farms”! You’ll have the opportunity for horizontal and vertical movement and growth throughout the organization, including clear career paths for your long term personal and professional growth. We hire good people rather than filling team vacancies or checking boxes for technical skillsets. We have a mindset of “deliver value, not features” - we produce meaningful products and services for our students, teachers, administrators, and others that further our educational mission rather than focus on just executing a JIRA ticket number. Why work for us? The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively designing content that will build the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights.   The pay range for this position is between $124,350 - $175,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.   McGraw Hill recruiters always use a “@mheducation.com” email address and/or from our Applicant Tracking System, iCIMS. Any variation of this email domain should be considered suspicious. Additionally, McGraw Hill recruiters and authorized representatives will never request sensitive information in email.  48607