About Modern Campus
Modern Campus empowers institutions to move with confidence across the modern learner journey. Our platform spans web content management, curriculum and catalog management, student engagement and lifelong learning — giving more than 1,700 colleges and universities the infrastructure they need to support the entire learner-to-earner lifecycle and deliver personalized, scalable experiences.
We partner with the education community to create new pathways for learning and opportunity, reimagining how institutions serve the modern learner and shape the future of education.
Our purpose — our north star — is to empower institutions to confidently serve and support the modern learner.
This mission and purpose come to life through how we show up every day:
- We exist to create empowerment through education.
- We lead with honesty and empathy.
- We shape the future through innovation.
- We become trusted partners.
- We make the complex feel possible.
Position Summary
We are looking for a Team Lead, Software Development to lead a small, high-performing Scrum team responsible for building, modernizing, and supporting enterprise SaaS applications utilizing agentic development processes
In this role, you will lead the team’s people, technology, and delivery while remaining hands-on in software development. You will guide technical decisions, mentor engineers, facilitate Scrum, and partner with Product, QA, Architecture, DevOps, and Security to deliver high-quality software.
You will also help lead our agentic-first approach to software development—using AI and coding agents to increase engineering leverage while maintaining strong standards for architecture, security, quality, and reliability.
What You'll Do
Team & Delivery Leadership
- Lead and develop a Scrum team of approximately 4–7 engineers.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, provide coaching and feedback, and support career development.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and promote effective Agile practices.
- Partner with Product and QA to refine work, define acceptance criteria, and align delivery with priorities.
- Manage team capacity, commitments, risks, dependencies, and release milestones.
- Build a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Technical Leadership
- Champion the development and adoption of agentic development best practices.
- Provide technical direction, lead design and architectural decisions within the team.
- Remain hands-on with design, coding, code reviews, testing, debugging, refactoring, and documentation.
- Guide modernization efforts and promote sound engineering practices.
- Champion CI/CD, automated testing, observability, code quality, and technical debt reduction.
- Partner with Architecture, DevOps, Systems, and Security to build secure, scalable, reliable solutions.
Agentic-First Engineering
- Lead adoption of agentic development practices within the team.
- Use AI coding agents across planning, development, testing, debugging, refactoring, code review, and documentation.
- Help engineers provide agents with clear context, constraints, architecture, and acceptance criteria.
- Establish practical standards for reviewing, testing, securing, and validating AI-generated code.
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity and delivery through agentic development.
Collaboration
- Work effectively across Product, Engineering, QA, Architecture, DevOps, and Security.
- Communicate technical decisions, delivery status, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders.
- Contribute to broader Engineering practices and standards.
What You'll Bring
Required Qualifications
- 8–10 years of professional software development experience, with demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, or team leadership experience.
- Strong hands-on software development background.
- Experience with enterprise applications, SaaS, microservices, or distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, databases, SDLC, CI/CD, testing, and production support.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and facilitating Scrum ceremonies.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- A strong sense of ownership and a drive to continuously learn and improve.
- Experience using AI coding agents or other agentic development tools, with an understanding of how to apply them responsibly and effectively.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with technologies such as Java/Spring Boot, React/TypeScript, relational databases, REST APIs, event-driven systems, AWS, CI/CD, and automated testing is beneficial.
- We value strong engineering fundamentals and adaptability over experience with a specific technology stack.
Why Join Modern Campus?
At Modern Campus, we're transforming how higher education institutions engage learners throughout the entire student lifecycle. We believe meaningful growth comes from understanding our customers, connecting their challenges to the right solutions, and creating experiences that deliver measurable value.
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