Manager, Software Engineering

Manager, Software Engineering

Chennai, India

The Opportunity:
Anthology delivers education and technology solutions so that students can reach their full potential and learning institutions thrive. Our mission is to empower educators and institutions with meaningful innovation that’s simple and intelligent, inspiring student success and institutional growth.

The Power of Together is built on having a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of our hiring practices and who we are as a company.

For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit www.anthology.com.

This role focuses on Anthology Student Success product, Student Success helps the world’s most progressive institutions of all sizes optimize program, marketing, and enrollment investment, as well as eliminate barriers to student success through technology-enabled support solutions. We leverage expertise, technology, and data to create an efficient, financially sustainable way to nurture students through their educational journey. Through our Student Services and Technology Support solutions, we are aiming to build a better education experience for everyone by extending institutional resources to meet the growing demands of learners.

As a member of our Product Development team, you’ll work in an agile environment delivering industry-leading SaaS products and web service platforms. As Manager, Software Engineering, you will work closely with the QA, User Experience, Architecture, and Product Management teams to solve a wide variety of technical challenges and to deliver Anthology's new feature and original system releases, all the while advocating for, evangelizing, and implementing engineering best practices across the team and organization. You will work and coordinate with other team leaders on cross-team projects to ensure dependencies are identified, understood, and managed. 

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Leading a team of software engineers working on cloud-native, scalable solutions within the AWS ecosystem.
• Partnering with cross-functional leads to plan and deliver high-quality features and releases.
• Championing agile engineering principles and supporting the adoption of development best practices.
• Guiding technical decisions and mentoring team members to grow skills and deliver on expectations.
• Collaborating with Product Management to align engineering outcomes with business priorities.
• Ensuring observability and maintainability of platform components in production environments.
• Contributing to cross-team initiatives with a focus on scalability, architecture, and user impact.

The Candidate:

Required skills/qualifications:

• 4–6 years of experience in cloud-based software development.
• 4+ years of experience managing engineering teams delivering solutions on AWS.
• Proven ability to build, lead, and grow high-performing SaaS teams.
• Experience in platform development and operational observability.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Effective communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Deep understanding of Agile methodologies and engineering best practices.
• Experience delivering and maintaining large-scale, consumer-facing applications.
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal.

Preferred skills/qualifications:

• Experience in the education technology sector, particularly with cloud applications.
• Experience in AWS connect or any CRM will be a plus
• Understanding of cloud platform services including EC2, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, S3, IAM etc.
• Familiarity with full-cycle software development and DevOps practices (build, test, deploy, operate).
• Demonstrated success in attracting, developing, and retaining top engineering talent.

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.   

Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.