Headway Inc is a global tech company, revolutionizing lifelong learning by creating digital products for over 150 million users worldwide. Our mission is to help people grow. We’re proud to be ranked 4th among the World’s Top EdTech Сompanies by TIME magazine. We believe lifelong learning should be accessible, personalized, and impactful to each individual. That’s how we change the world and why we bring together exceptional minds.

The core of our achievements is our team. We believe in people and shared values SELECT. That’s why, together with Vladyslav Kiriushkin - Engineering Manager at Platform tribe, we’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our new team transforming the EdTech industry.

What will you do:

• Lead a new team as Engineering Manager and take ownership of delivering the MVP for a new Payments Product: ship the first version, prove value, and take it to production with measurable outcomes.

• Be hands-on early: partner with the team as a strong IC to shape architecture, unblock delivery, and set a high engineering bar.

• Build the technical foundation for a mission-critical product: correctness-oriented workflows, reliable integrations, and production-grade observability.

• Make it reliable from day one: safe rollouts (feature flags, gradual traffic), incident readiness, and an SLO mindset.

• Drive cross-team delivery: align dependencies across Engineering, Product, Finance, and other stakeholders; coordinate changes to existing systems.

• Build the team: hiring, onboarding, team shape, execution cadence, feedback culture, and stakeholder management.

What do you need to join us:

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with ownership of production services end-to-end.;

• Strong experience building distributed systems (APIs, async processing, databases) and operating them (monitoring, debugging, incidents);

• Proven ability to lead technical decisions and deliver through ambiguity (trade-offs, staged rollout, migrations).;

• Security fundamentals: secrets management, access control, threat-aware design.

Would be a plus:

• Experience building financial/transactional workflows with high correctness requirements: idempotency, clear state transitions, audit logs, and safe failure handling.

• Experience in payments/fintech/billing/risk, or heavy third-party integrations.

Challenges you will face:

• High stakes + ambiguity: you’ll lead a new product area where correctness and reliability matter, while the MVP-to-platform roadmap is still evolving.

• Hands-on EM reality: balancing management responsibilities with being deeply involved in early architecture and delivery.

• Cross-team coordination: success depends on aligning multiple teams and stakeholders, managing dependencies, and driving decisions when priorities compete.

• Building while shipping: hiring and forming the team while simultaneously delivering production outcomes.

What do we offer:

• Work within an ambitious team on a socially impactful education product.

• An office with a reliable shelter, generators, satellite internet, and other amenities.

• Access to our corporate knowledge base and professional communities.

• Personal development plan.

• Compensation for English language learning, external training, and courses.

• Medical insurance and full sick leave compensation.

• Corporate holidays: we take a week-long paid holiday to rest and recharge twice a year.

• Supporting initiatives that help Ukraine. Find out more about our projects here.

Are you interested?

Send your CV!