Principal Engineer, Reach
机会河岸洞察的潜力和放置垂直有明确的北极星：确保每一个具有特殊能力，卓越潜力或独特学习需求的学生尽早找到并获得发展机会。科加特和爱荷华州评估是学校区今天如何做到这一点，总共为近5000万美元的业务已经服务于300万名学生。**这是一名实践性，校长级技术角色。你是高级技术老板，不通过别人的架构管理团队：编码，在建筑中，与你的工程师肩膀在一起每天.** 这种机会很罕见：建立一个企业级平台从一开始，在组织中拥有可信的品牌，成熟的产品市场适合，已经有数百万学生服务。你不是证明市场存在，而是构建了允许其发展的平台架构和数据模型，在监管数据环境 （FERPA,COPPA 等）的安全上，同时对自动化引擎，测试交付和名单等核心组件进行建设-vs 购买-vs 合作伙伴要求。你不会继承现有的建筑，技术债务或团队。你将在实现雄心勃勃目标之路上建造所有三项：2028年并推出我们的第一百万人进入这个新平台。一旦你了解了现有的系统和迁移计划，你将定义并建立一个完全专注的技术团队来执行它，利用 Riverside 的现有人才和新雇员，在你的第60天内。你会与产品，心理测量和内容密切合作。不要错误：这不是 B2C 手机应用程序。你正在构建一个复杂的多元件平台，为实际生产量和学校和地区的工作流程而建造。这是一个已成立的组织内部的一家小公司任务：为了实现行业变革的愿景，该愿景将让数百万多名孩子得到所需的帮助和支持。这份角色报告给首席技术官。你会做什么？- 领导0到1构建。通过2027年秋季试点来创建 Rich 平台的自己的架构，建设和测试，以及下一代 CogAT 评估，直到2028年的全面发射。- B2B 规模的建筑师。设计一个为实际生产量和机构买家而建造的复杂的多元件平台，满足了合规条款的要求。
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THE OPPORTUNITY
Riverside Insights' Potential & Placement vertical has a clear north star: ensure every student with exceptional ability, outstanding potential, or unique learning needs is found as early as possible and given the opportunity to thrive. CogAT and Iowa Assessments are how school districts do that today, together a nearly $50M business already serving 3 million students.
**This is a hands-on, principal-level technical role. You're the senior technical owner, not managing a team through someone else's architecture: writing code, in the architecture, shoulder to shoulder with your engineers every day.**
The opportunity itself is rare: build an enterprise-grade platform from the ground up inside an organization with a trusted brand, established product-market fit, and millions of students already served. You're not proving the market exists, you're building the platform architecture and data model that let it grow, at the security bar of a regulated data environment (FERPA, COPPA, and similar), while making the build-vs-buy-vs-partner calls on core components like the adaptive engine, test delivery, and rostering.
You won't inherit existing architecture, tech debt, or a team. You'll build all three, on the path to an ambitious target: a 2028 launch and migrating our first million students onto this new platform. Once you're deep on the existing systems and the migration plan, you'll define and build the fully dedicated technical team to execute it, drawing on Riverside's existing talent and new hires you bring in, within your first 60 days. You'll work closely with product, psychometrics, and content throughout.
Make no mistake: this isn't a B2C mobile app. You're architecting a complex, multi-component platform, built for real production volume and the workflows of schools and districts.
This is a small company mandate inside an established organization: a lean, scrappy, agile mindset, moving with real speed and without ego, in pursuit of an industry-changing vision that gets millions more kids found and given the support they need.
This role reports to the Chief Technology Officer.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Lead the 0-to-1 build. Own architecture, construction, and testing of the Reach platform through a Fall 2027 pilot, and the next-generation CogAT assessment through full 2028 launch.
- Architect for B2B scale. Design a complex, multi-component platform built for real production volume and institutional buyers, meeting the compliance bar of a regulated data environment.
- Build your team, within 60 days. Get deep on existing systems and the migration plan, then define the team you need and build it, drawing on existing talent and new hires within a 6-10 engineer budget.
- Own the first migration wave. Ensure the initial cohort of customers moving onto the new platform gets a day-one experience that's better than what they had, not just a like-for-like switch.
- Stay hands-on. Actively coding alongside your team, not reviewing architecture diagrams from a distance.
- Own build-vs-buy-vs-partner calls on core technical dependencies, adaptive engine, test delivery, rostering, with clear, cost- and risk-informed recommendations.
- Set the standard for AI-native engineering at Riverside, ways of working that let a small team move like a much bigger one.
- Own technical roadmap execution. Translate the Product team’s roadmap into a technical plan, sequencing architecture and infrastructure work, including where and how AI gets built into core capabilities like the Reporting Engine.
- Partner across the business. Regular demos of working software, transparent updates on progress, risk, and decisions needed.
Must-Have Qualifications
- Has worked as a principal engineer or architect on large, complex, enterprise-grade production systems
- Has personally led a 0-to-1, B2B platform build as the senior technical owner
- Has built and led a team, combining existing and new hires, to hit an ambitious goal
- Has been the senior technical decision-maker on one project for at least 24 months
- Experience architecting and scaling production systems on AWS
- Experience operating in a regulated data environment (FERPA, COPPA, HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar)
- Full-stack fluency, front-end, back-end, architecture, DevOps, and testing
- Makes agentic coding tools and AI-assisted development the default way you build, not an add-on
What You'll Bring
- Experience building assessment, test-delivery, or other high-stakes data platforms
- Experience building data or analytics/reporting platforms at scale
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform or equivalent)
- Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into a production product
- Entrepreneurial background
- Comfortable presenting to and earning buy-in from senior leadership
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Remote
- Travel approximatley 10 times a year for off-site team meetings
- May require stationary positions, sitting or standing, for extended periods
DISCLAIMER
The above statements describe the general nature and level of the work performed by people assigned to this work. This list does not cover all possible duties, tasks, or responsibilities. Riverside Insights may amend or change responsibilities to meet the needs of the business and organization as necessary.
WHY JOIN OUR TEAM?
At Riverside Insights, achieving real results for students and educators is more than talk, it is what we do. As we grow, so will you, offering the chance to expand your skills on an ambitious, solution-focused team. Join us in making great work possible, where your well-being and dedication to making an impact go hand in hand. If you are ready for an ambitious, collaborative environment, Riverside is the place for you.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Company paid basic life and AD and D insurance
- Company paid long-term disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Supplemental life insurance options
- Company paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Retirement plan with discretionary company matching
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options
- Premium subscription to Calm for employee and dependents
- 33 days of company paid time off (PTO, Holidays, Summer Fridays, Wellness Days)
- Weekly Focus Wednesdays
- Flexible work arrangements
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Company orientation and 30, 60, 90 Day Onboarding
RIVERSIDE INSIGHTS IS AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
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