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# Engineering Manager at Clever

- **Company:** Clever
- **Location:** San Francisco CA OR in the Continental, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://www.clever.com/about/careers?gh_jid=8110207

## Job description

Clever is on a mission to connect every student to a world of learning. As the leading identity platform for education, more than 111,000 schools worldwide use Clever to power secure digital learning experiences. With Clever’s layered security solutions, schools can protect access and identities for all staff, teachers, and students. With a secure identity platform for schools and a network of leading application providers, Clever is committed to advancing education with technology that works for students everywhere. Clever, a Kahoot! company, has an office in San Francisco, CA, but you can visit us at [clever.com](https://www.clever.com/)anytime.

## About the Team & Opportunity

The Classroom Experience team at Clever builds the digital gateway to the classroom. As the Engineering Manager, you will lead the team responsible for our most visible products, including the Clever Portal—the daily starting point for millions of students and teachers. We are hiring a leader to help us expand our reach from the classroom into new frontiers like browser extensions and beyond, including future explorations of resource access outside our core products. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will manage the execution of our most visible user-facing products, hire and develop world-class engineering talent, and ensure that our technical strategy continues to provide simple, secure access to learning for everyone.

## How You’ll Make an Impact

- The problem you’ll solve: You will lead the team that scales our primary classroom user interfaces, connecting users to their learning applications through interfaces that work for kindergarteners in the classroom, through to administrators in the central office, and ensuring that the experience remains robust, delightful, and lightning-fast.
- Who you’ll partner with: You will be a key strategic partner to Product, Design, and Marketing to define our roadmap, while working alongside other Engineering Managers to drive organizational best practices.
- What success looks like: Success is a high-performing, inclusive team that delivers reliable, business-critical software, meets 99.98%+ uptime targets, and fosters a culture of continuous mentorship and professional growth.
- Key projects you’ll lead: You will drive the execution of accessible UIs and next-generation APIs that drive expanded, simple, and secure access to learning applications.

## What We’re Looking For

Required Skills & Experience (Must-Haves)

- People Leadership: 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with a proven ability to build high-impact teams — mentoring and coaching engineers at all levels while holding a consistently high bar.
- Technical Foundation: 5+ years of software development experience with strong fundamentals in full-stack architecture and system design, along with familiarity with how core authentication concepts extend to device-level login.
- AI Development Tools: Familiarity with leveraging AI coding tools (such as Claude Code or Cursor) to enhance development workflow, productivity, and code quality.
- Cultural Alignment: A commitment to understand and prioritize the Clever engineering culture (see our blog post on[Defining Clever's Engineering Culture](https://engineering.clever.com/2017/09/06/defining-clevers-engineering-culture/)).
- Operational Excellence: Experience with operational change management and process improvement.
- Communication & Collaboration: Excellent communication skills and the ability to manage distributed, remote teams while building alignment across cross-functional stakeholders.
- Inclusive Leadership: A deep commitment to building diverse and inclusive teams where every voice is heard.

## Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves)

- Consumer-Facing Scale: Experience managing teams that build products for millions of concurrent users.
- High Availability: Experience managing business-critical services with strict uptime requirements (99.98%+).
- Technology Proficiency: Familiarity with our core technologies, including Go, Node.js, TypeScript, and React, managing services within the AWS Ecosystem, and native device technologies.

## Benefits & Perks

- Competitive salary
- Flexible PTO and Paid Parental Leave
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
- Mental healthcare services
- Professional development budget
- Annual company retreat + team events

Salary Transparency

The range of our base salary cash compensation for this role for candidates living in the United States, besides NYC and San Francisco, CA, is between $167,000 - $230,000. For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco, CA, it’s between $183,000 - $253,000. All final offers are determined using multiple factors, including experience and level of expertise.

Inclusion & Belonging

Clever believes classrooms and our company should be diverse and inclusive. We celebrate actions that build diverse teams, include every voice, and create safe spaces for everyone to bring their authentic selves to work. Clever does not conduct interviews via text or Telegram. We will never ask for your financial information or reimbursement of equipment of any kind. If you receive any communications regarding employment with Clever that you think might be a scam, please email recruitingscam@clever.com.

If you are a resident of Colorado, please note you have the right to redact your age-related information like age, birth date, or dates of schooling.

## About Clever

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clever provides an identity and single sign-on platform that securely connects K-12 schools with the digital learning applications they use.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Kahoot! AS)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources (CEO is Trish Sparks)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Education technology (EdTech) – identity and access management for K-12 schools.
- Target customers: K-12 school districts, individual schools, and educational application providers (B2B / B2G).
- Mission: To connect every student to a world of learning by advancing technology that works for students everywhere.

## Products & Services
- **[Clever Identity Platform]**: A SaaS platform that offers single sign‑on, identity management, data integration, and security for schools. It enables students and teachers to access over 700 educational applications through one secure login, while giving districts control over data and privacy.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $35.0 M (LinkedIn estimate) and total funding of $43.3 M across three rounds.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company is Kahoot! AS. More than 111,000 schools use Clever, including 95 of the 100 largest U.S. districts. Partners with 700+ educational applications.
- **Growth Signals**: 232 employees (+17.2% YoY), operates in 11 countries (including Brazil, Australia, Canada, Pakistan, Italy), and serves 60% of U.S. students monthly.

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep network effects: being the de facto identity layer for K-12 education in the U.S. makes switching costly for districts and app providers.
- Strong security and privacy focus tailored specifically to school data regulations.
- One integration that works with the vast majority of edtech apps, reducing friction for schools.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding the identity platform to cover more use cases (classroom engagement, data security) and broadening international presence (already in 11 countries).
- Continuing to build a secure, scalable infrastructure that supports digital learning for millions of students.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Flexible model – work from anywhere in the continental U.S. plus Hawaii, or from the San Francisco HQ.
- **Culture**: Collaborative, lifelong learning environment with a strong emphasis on inclusion and belonging. Employee resource groups include Women @ Clever, PoC @ Clever, LGBTQIA+ @ Clever, and many more.
- **Perks**: Competitive salary, equity for all, flexible PTO (encouraged minimum 3 weeks/year), 100% paid medical/dental/vision for employee (70% for dependents), 401K, generous parental leave, $1,000 yearly learning stipend, and annual company retreats (Winter Rally).
- **Engineering culture**: “Don’t trust the textbook” – encourages questioning, experimentation, and collaboration. Mentorship programs available. Focus on data security and solving tough technical challenges.

## Sources
1. [clever.com – Careers](https://www.clever.com/about/careers)
2. [clever.com – About](https://www.clever.com/about)
3. [clever.com – Homepage](https://www.clever.com/)
4. [linkedin.com – Clever Inc.](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clever-inc-)
5. [clever.com – Engineering](https://www.clever.com/about/engineering)

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