At Skillsoft, we believe skills fuel growth. Our mission is to empower every organization and every learner to turn constant change into continuous growth. As part of the team, your skills will help organizations understand what skills they have, what they need next, and how to apply them in ways that drive real performance and progress.
Join us at Skillsoft, where we are redefining enterprise learning and helping organizations build their Skillsforce™ of the future. Through our innovative software technology platform, we bring together immersive multimodal learning experiences, advanced analytics, AI-driven insights, and world-class content to deliver measurable transformative impact at scale. At Skillsoft, we are building the Skillforce™ of the future—a workforce that is ready, adaptable, resilient, and equipped to thrive alongside rapidly evolving AI tool and technologies. We empower organizations and individuals to unlock their full potential in an ever-changing world.
Skillsoft is seeking an adaptive, innovative experienced Software Engineering Manager who excels in dynamic product environments, possesses a genuine interest in AI-native development, and has a proven ability to build and mentor top-tier engineering teams during periods of rapid, as we look to build out our new next-generation LX Studio AI-native course designer and suite of technologies. This leader will be challenged with setting high standard for quality, communicate with clarity, and fostering an environment where team members can be their best and achieve their best work. If you’re driven to shape the future of workforce transformation and make a meaningful global impact while helping us build innovative software tools and technologies, we invite you to be part of what’s next.
Responsibilities
- Translates functional plans into operational delivery processes; guides cross-functional pods through ambiguity with up to one-year delivery impact.
- Champions spec-first development as a force multiplier; helps engineers write sharper specs, makes planning the starting point for ambitious work, and uses metrics to surface signal and unblock the team.
- Applies AI-assisted code review as the default; scopes human review to security, data access, financial flows, and architectural decisions.
- Clearly communicate across engineering, product, and external stakeholders; able to drive cross-squad alignment on shared ownership and review SLAs.
- Partners with customers, product, design, and GTM to translate real user problems into shipped features and stays close to adoption and feedback after release.
Skills & Experience Required
- 8+ years of Software Engineering experience with 2+ managing professional engineers; runs spec, architecture, and release-readiness checkpoints as delivery gates, not ceremonies with a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Software Engineering.
- Proficient in modern web frameworks, our stack includes React, GraphQL Node.js and Postgres
- Practiced with spec-driven, AI-native development using Claude or equivalent; daily workflow includes spec writing, PR review, test generation, and regression sweeps.
- Fluent in AI evaluations as a discipline; designs eval sets for generation quality, tracks metrics across model and prompt changes, and uses regression results to gate releases and inform product decisions.
- Familiar with LangGraph (or similar) agentic architecture: harness engineering, async job queues (RabbitMQ), SSE streaming, and S3 + Postgres content persistence.
Preferred Experience
- Built or shipped products with AI-generated media pipelines — TTS narration, AI video generation, or multi-modal content production similar to Spark's podcast/video workflow.
- Background in authoring tool platforms or e-learning content publishing pipelines (SCORM, xAPI, CP pipeline).
Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is a global leader in AI-native skills management for the human + AI era. By unifying learning, real-time skills intelligence, and workforce insights, Skillsoft helps enterprises build their Skillforce™ — humans and AI working together to drive measurable business outcomes. Through personalized, interactive learning across leadership, technology, and compliance, Skillsoft enables organizations to close critical skill gaps and accelerate transformation. Skillsoft is trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 1000, and supports a global community of more than 105 million learners. Learn more at skillsoft.com.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of Software Engineering experience
- 2+ years managing professional engineers
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Software Engineering
- Proficient in modern web frameworks such as React, GraphQL, Node.js and Postgres
- Practiced with spec-driven, AI-native development using Claude or equivalent
What the Team is Saying
Skillsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
How does Skillsoft ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?
Skillsoft’s compensation is supported by employee feedback around market-rate pay, bonus opportunities, benefits and total rewards. The company pairs compensation with flexibility, learning access and career development programs that employees describe as part of the overall value of working there.
- Market-aligned pay and bonus opportunities: Employees describe Skillsoft’s compensation as competitive, especially in roles with bonus potential. Employees surveyed on external review sites cite “salary plus bonus potential” as market rate, quarterly bonus access in sales and a strong compensation plan. A marketing employee cited “great pay,” while a solution design architect described Skillsoft as offering a “very competitive benefits and total compensation package.” (Comparably; Glassdoor)
- Performance-based rewards: Skillsoft employees point to bonus opportunities as part of the company’s rewards approach. A software engineer said their bonus was “excellent,” while sales employees cite quarterly bonus access as part of their compensation package.
- Benefits as part of total rewards: Skillsoft’s total rewards are also supported by employee comments about health benefits, insurance benefits, flexible time off, remote work and work-life balance. Employees surveyed on external review sites cite health benefits and insurance benefits as strengths, while other employees highlight great benefits, remote-first work and flexibility as part of the employee experience. (Comparably; Glassdoor)
- Growth and learning as added value: Skillsoft’s rewards approach is connected to its employee growth culture. The company provides employees with access to Percipio, Aspire Journeys, role-based pathways, instructor-led training, coaching and CAISY® simulations. Employees describe Skillsoft as a place with “continuous learning opportunities across the tech stack” and “no better place to learn and grow.”
● External signals:
○ Compensation and bonus: Employees on external review sites cite market-rate salary plus bonus potential, quarterly bonus access in sales, a strong compensation plan, “great pay” and an “excellent” bonus as compensation strengths. (Comparably; Glassdoor)
○ Total rewards: Employees on external review sites describe Skillsoft as offering “great benefits,” a “very competitive benefits and total compensation package” and benefits that support work-life balance, flexibility and employee growth. (Glassdoor)
○ Health and insurance: Employees on external review sites cite health benefits, insurance benefits and good health plans as strengths of Skillsoft’s employee experience. Mental health benefits are also listed among Skillsoft’s employee benefits. (Comparably)
○ Flexibility as a reward: Employees on external review sites connect rewards not only to pay, but also to remote work, flexible hours, flexible time off, independence and management that avoids micromanaging. (Glassdoor; Comparably)
Bottom line: Skillsoft supports competitive pay through market-rate compensation, bonus opportunities and a broader total rewards experience that includes benefits, flexibility and career development.
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What We Do
Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is a global leader in AI-native skills management for the human + AI era. By unifying learning, real-time skills intelligence, and workforce insights, Skillsoft helps enterprises build their Skillforce™ — humans and AI working together to drive measurable business outcomes. Through personalized, interactive learning across leadership, technology, and compliance, Skillsoft enables organizations to close critical skill gaps and accelerate transformation. Skillsoft is trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 1000, and supports a global community of more than 105 million learners. Learn more at skillsoft.com.
Why Work With Us
We help the world's biggest companies build better workforces — and we invest just as much in our own people. Learning new skills is a core part of your job here. We're fully remote, spread across the globe, and united by a shared belief that learning changes careers.
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