{"id":1436805,"url":"https://alion.io/job/edurio-engineering-manager","title":"Engineering Manager","company":{"id":56296,"name":"Edurio","domain":"edurio.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/edurio","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Teamtailor","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Riga, Latvia"],"countries":["LV"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":49000,"max_usd":126000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":1275},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"PHP","optional":false},{"name":"Slack","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-28T10:39:39Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-28","last_verified_at":"2026-09-30T16:51:22Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"Edurio is on its way to improving education quality globally and we're looking for great people to join us on the journey.\nWe help schools and school groups survey their parents, pupils, and staff to build organisations where people thrive. We currently work with over 2000 schools in the United Kingdom and Latvia and are planning to grow significantly in the next year.\nAs an Engineering Manager, you will lead our development team and own what it commits to. You will also own how the team works, so that a new developer can learn it in their first week.\nThe development team and how we work\nYou would lead our development team, five people today and growing: four developers and a QA engineer. Product is a separate team of four, led by our Lead Product Manager.\nOur Principal Engineer works alongside you and owns the architecture, the database schema, the technologies we build on, and what our development standard says. You own the people, the commitments, the process, and whether the standard is followed in the work that ships. Neither of you reports to the other, and you both report to the Director of Product and Service.\nThis role is being created as part of the restructure that comes with becoming a multi-product company.\nOur developers direct coding agents and verify what comes back, so most of an engineer's day is design and review rather than manually writing code.\nWe run two products on one platform: the survey software, and Edurio Hub, the second product we are building now. The platform is mid-migration, so we are reducing the PHP monolith, moving the front end to Vue 3, and building new services on AWS with CDK.\nYou would be working with Vue and TypeScript, AWS Lambda and CDK, and with Linear, Slack, Claude, and other tools of your choice.\nYour responsibilities\nLead the developers and the QA engineer: expectations and performance, growth, workload and wellbeing, keeping people here, and hiring future engineers\n\nActively participate in writing code yourself - we are looking for a player-coach rather than a manager who is removed from coding\n\nOwn the team’s commitments, release planning and adjusting the plan when something unexpected happens\n\nOwn how we estimate work and ensure the accuracy and consistency of estimates given by the development team\n\nRun the rhythm the team works to: standups, planning, demos and retrospectives\n\nEnsure that the team follows our development standards and highlight situations where our standards do not match current practice\n\nOwn how development and product work together, from the kick-off to a release the product team can explain to clients\n\nExplain the technical side to the rest of the company: what an incident means, what a security questionnaire is asking for, and what a constraint will cost\n\nWhat we're looking for\nExperience of leading in an engineering team that builds with coding agents\n\nAbility to handle the people side: holding the team accountable, ensuring the team’s wellbeing and leading growth planning and performance conversations.\n\nEnough seniority h in engineering to coordinate the team’s work, although we don’t expect you to be the most experienced engineer in the room\n\nExperience putting a development process in place and teaching it, rather than running one you inherited\n\nAbility to explain delivery, risk and trade-offs to people who do not write software\n\nAdvanced use of AI and coding agents in your own work\n\nExcellent verbal and written English skills\n\nUseful, but we do not expect all of these:\nExperience with Typescript, Vue or AWS serverless\n\nExperience of a platform migration that ran alongside feature work\n\nExperience or interest in the EdTech sector\n\nThis is probably not for you if:\nYou want to fully own the architecture and the technology choices\n\nYou want to code full time and leave the people side to somebody else\n\nYou want to join a team whose process is already settled\n\nThe attitudes we'd like to see\nOwnership: You do what you said you would do, and take responsibility for how it lands with the client - not just for completing the task\nGenuine care: You build real relationships with clients and colleagues, assume good intentions, and do the right thing rather than the easy thing\nOpenness: You communicate honestly, don't shy away from difficult conversations, and give and receive feedback well\nGrowth: You're curious about how things could work better, and you act on what you learn rather than defaulting to how it's always been done\nWhat we offer\nExperience in growing in an international company and a chance to have an impact on education quality\nFeedback-based work culture which highly values transparency and team well-being\nFlexible working hours. For colleagues based in Latvia we offer a hybrid setup with an office in Riga. The UK-based colleagues are fully remote.\nGross salary from EUR 5000 per month in Latvia or GBP 60,000 per annum in the UK, as well as company share options, paid phone plan, and health insurance.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4975,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Health insurance","Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"},{"name":"Latvia","iso":"LV","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Education","E-learning"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T03:34:16Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:12","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/edurio-engineering-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/edurio-engineering-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T03:00:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4094,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":906,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}