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Wonderschool

Head of Engineering

Leads engineering team to deliver high-quality, revenue-driving products quickly while managing execution, hiring, processes, architecture, and cross-functional partnerships. Requires strong engineering background, team scaling experience, and technical judgment in high-growth settings.

San Francisco, CAEngineering ManagementOnsite
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About the role

Responsibilities

Own Engineering Execution and Delivery

  • Ensure the team consistently ships high-quality product on time
  • Reduce time from idea to production for core features
  • Drive accountability for delivery across the team
  • Prioritize and ship features tied to revenue quickly

Build and Lead a High-Performance Engineering Team

  • Manage, coach, and develop engineers
  • Hire strong engineers and raise the bar over time
  • Set a high performance standard and enforce it
  • Address underperformance quickly and directly

Improve Development Velocity and Quality

  • Improve engineering processes to increase speed without sacrificing quality
  • Ensure code quality, testing, and reliability standards are maintained
  • Partner with the Head of AI Agent Systems to integrate AI-driven workflows into the development process
  • Ensure engineers adopt tools and systems that increase output

Own Architecture and Technical Direction

  • Make and enforce key architectural decisions
  • Ensure systems are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with product needs
  • Drive simplification and reduce technical debt where it slows the business

Partner with Product and Business Teams

  • Work closely with the Head of Product to translate priorities into shipped product
  • Ensure alignment between product requirements and engineering execution
  • Support GTM and operations by delivering the systems needed to drive revenue

Drive Business Impact

  • Ensure engineering output directly supports revenue growth
  • Improve the speed of shipping features that impact conversion, onboarding, and usage
  • Balance speed and reliability to support long-term growth

Required Qualifications

  • Strong engineering background with experience building and shipping production systems
  • Experience managing and scaling engineering teams
  • Track record of delivering product quickly in a high-growth environment
  • Strong technical judgment and ability to make architectural decisions
  • Experience working closely with product and business teams

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience at a high-growth startup
  • Experience improving engineering velocity and processes
  • Experience integrating AI or automation into development workflows
  • Background as a founder or early-stage engineer

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. This role is eligible for equity.

Wonderschool offers a competitive benefits package, including:

  • Health benefits with up to 100% coverage for employee premiums and up to 80% for dependents
  • Wifi and employee wellness stipends
  • Flexible PTO, paid holidays, and mental wellness days
  • Competitive parental leave (eligible after 6 months of employment)

Skills

Scalable SystemsCode QualityTestingReliability StandardsArchitectural DecisionsAI WorkflowsEngineering ProcessesTechnical Debt Reduction

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