Take over release coordination, lead the path to safe continuous deployment, and grow into BoodleBox's first engineering manager.
BoodleBox is a VC-backed GenAI platform built for higher education. With 100,000+ users across 1,200+ colleges and universities, we partner with faculty, staff, and students to make responsible AI adoption practical, impactful, and lasting. Our platform brings together leading AI tools — including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity — under one roof, purpose-built for the unique demands of academic environments. We're guided by three core values: service, education, and collaboration.
You are the engineer the team turns to when a release gets complicated. You know what's in the build, who's blocked, and when to roll forward instead of back. You've worked on a team that deploys to production continuously, and you remember what it took to get there. You still write code. You have no intention of stopping. And you've decided, on purpose, that you want to lead people.
BoodleBox runs a generative AI platform of 20+ services on Kubernetes, serving students and faculty at 1,200+ institutions. Today our releases are scheduled, and release coordination sits with the CTO. Your first job is to take that over. Your second is to get us to safe, automated continuous deployment, bringing what you've already lived through rather than learning it alongside us. You'll spend your first months inside the codebase, shipping real tickets, so that when you sit in a design conversation you know what you're talking about and the senior engineers know it too.
This is the first hire on BoodleBox's engineering-management track. You start with no direct reports. As we add managers through 2027, you take on a group of engineers, and the title becomes Engineering Manager. Who, and when, we'll decide together once you're here. If you've never had the manager title, that's fine. We're hiring for where you're going.
This role is fully remote, with a company hub in Colorado Springs, CO.
Didn't come up through a traditional path? Good. Tell us about it.
No FAANG logo on your resume? We've hired people who outperformed everyone who did.
Career gap? Weird pivot? Started somewhere completely left field? Bring it. The people who got here the strange way usually have the best instincts.
What we actually want to see: someone who sees what's in the build and who's blocked, and clears the path without thinking about it. If that's you, the path you took to get here is just a good story.
We move quickly here, and the speed comes from small teams with real ownership, not from heroics. Engineers deploy their own code. Decisions get made by the people closest to the problem. The platform you'd be helping ship is used by actual students and faculty every day, and when a release goes well they never notice, which is the point.
You'll fit if you're a builder who likes making other builders faster, if you're curious about everything from Kubernetes rollouts to how a professor actually uses an AI assistant, and if you care that this is education. We're not optimizing ad clicks. We're trying to make AI genuinely useful in classrooms, and that only works if the platform is reliable.
Don't just send a resume. Send an email to careers@boodle.ai with a subject line that already tells us something about you.
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BoodleBox is a team of curious, collaborative builders committed to creating meaningful experiences for our customers and each other. We don't have legacy processes protecting legacy roles. We have a small team trying to build something genuinely new.
We hire humans first. BoodleBox is built on the belief that AI works best when the people behind it reflect the full range of human experience. This means different backgrounds, perspectives, lived experiences, and yes, unconventional career paths. We're an equal opportunity employer, full stop — no discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Need an accommodation during the application or interview process? Reach out — we'll make it work.
