Role Description We are seeking a hands-on Lead Engineer to own our cloud infrastructure, application architecture, and product development execution. This is a senior, high-impact role for someone who thrives in early-stage environments and wants to shape both technical systems and product direction. You will be responsible for building scalable, secure infrastructure while leading development of our products. You will work cross-functionally with leadership, product, and design to translate vision into shipped features used by school districts, students, and families nationwide. What You'll Do - Own day-to-day engineering execution across our products - Design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines - Translate product vision into technical architecture and shipped features - Lead backend and frontend development with an emphasis on performance, reliability, and maintainability - Build and maintain integrations with school district platforms (Clever, ClassLink, SIS systems) - Collaborate on monetization strategy and implement analytics and metrics to inform product and retention decisions - Help evaluate and evolve our technical stack as we scale - Maintain high code quality standards while balancing speed and scalability Qualifications - 5+ years of software engineering experience - Experience managing cloud infrastructure in production environments - Experience shipping and maintaining SaaS products - Strong backend development experience (Python strongly preferred) - Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) - Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines - Strong problem-solving and communication skills Requirements - Experience in early-stage startups (Nice to Have) - Experience building subscription-based SaaS products (Nice to Have) - Familiarity with Anvil or Python web frameworks (Flask, Django) (Nice to Have) - Experience implementing analytics and A/B testing (Nice to Have) - Interest in education or prior experience in EdTech (Nice to Have) - Experience collaborating with security/compliance teams (SOC 2 environments) (Nice to Have) Benefits - Ownership over critical infrastructure and product systems at a company whose products are backed by Gates Foundation-validated research - The opportunity to shape products from early-stage growth to scale — across both B2B and B2C - Real influence over technical architecture and stack decisions at a stage where those choices still matter - A small team with direct access to leadership and no layers between you and decisions - The ability to build technology that meaningfully impacts student learning outcomes

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure solutions • Administer and optimize Linux production environments (tuning, hardening, troubleshooting) • Develop scripts and automation tools for provisioning, deployment, and operations • Support database maintenance, performance tuning, and high availability, with a focus on NoSQL • Participate in end-to-end infrastructure projects — from architecture design to delivery • Collaborate with development, data, and product teams to define technical solutions • Contribute to observability practices (monitoring, logs, metrics) and continuous improvement • Document processes, runbooks, and architectures to strengthen the team’s technical knowledge base

• Accountable for meeting or exceeding expected utilization and services revenue goals aligned to the Engineer Bonus Plan. • Actively manage availability and engagement decisions to support practice and portfolio demand. • Maintain high standards of operational excellence, including timely completion of time entry, required training, and reporting expectations. • Regarded as the technical expert in their job family within CDW. • Requires in-depth and/or breadth of expertise across field of specialization and has broad knowledge of other job family within the organization function. • Serves as a senior advisor to leadership. • Collaborates within the practice or cross practice on training plans and approaches to best equip staff for successful implementations. • Develops standards, best practices, and training for team members in their area of expertise. • Defines project strategies or technical options to balance customer project goals and financial constraints. • Provides leadership and expert advice/counsel on technical subject matters and architecture design to Customers, the Infrastructure Solutions Team, and other Extended Sirius Teams. • Recognized by customer, peers, and management as SME expert, staying relevant in upcoming technologies, IT trends and IT transformation. • Escalates and communicates alternatives with associated risks with executives and stakeholders. • Ensures procedures are being followed and assists in resolving complex problems which require professional level input. • Regularly interface with customer technical and business executives and project leadership through sales presentations and client engagements, communicating complex ideas, anticipating objections, aligning expectations, and educating customers throughout the project and service lifecycle. • Serves as the lead on Proof-of-Concept engagements and large-scale implementations. • Ability to navigate difficult customer environments independently, effectively, and consistently. • Takes ownership of any services design/architecting/implementation challenges and leads the team to remediation/resolution, both technically and politically recommends client project financial goals, metrics, and ROI. • Leads a project team consisting of clients, CDW, and partner resources to achieve the desired outcome. • Contributes to industry best practices. Known resource within the technology industry. • Actively contribute to presales motions, including client meetings, SOW reviews, service scoping, and solution shaping. • Partner with sellers, SDMs, and PSMs to identify whitespace and drive follow-on service opportunities. • Serve as a visible technical leader within the practice, regularly promoting capabilities and availability across internal stakeholders.

• Support large-scale TxDOT relocation projects for AT&T in the TxDOT Austin District. • Provide PE-level QA/QC review of civil plan and profile sheets prepared by TxDOT-hired engineering consultants. • Assist AT&T Engineering with review and acceptance of relocation plans, providing comments, recommendations, or alternative solutions as needed. • Review conflict solutions presented by TxDOT consultants and help determine the best path forward for AT&T facilities. • Support active construction projects by reviewing formal RFIs and questions from roadway contractors, joint-bid telecom contractors, and other stakeholders. • Review ARAMIS prints for feasibility of sequencing work, including placing and splicing cable to clear areas requested by TxDOT and project stakeholders. • Attend virtual stakeholder meetings for upcoming projects, projects in design, and projects in construction. • Attend onsite meetings when required, though they are expected to be rare. • Use ARAMIS and other AT&T systems independently to complete reviews and provide comments. • Complete review requests within 5 business days of submission.