Senior Engineering Manager

ISSA is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager!

100% Remote position (must reside in an ISSA-eligible state: AZ, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, NC, NV, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI)

About ISSA: ISSA is an education and certification company for fitness trainers, personal trainers, strength and conditioning coaches, nutritionists, nutrition coaches, yoga instructors, health coaches, medical professionals, and more! For over 35 years, ISSA has created a personal fitness training program to merge gym experience with practical and applied sciences. With over 250 employees, we have certified nearly 500,000 trainers in 174 countries. We were recently recognized as a Best Place to Work and Healthiest Employer by The Phoenix Business Journal, a Fastest-Growing Private Company by Inc. Southwest Regionals, and a Workplace by USA Today!

We are adding an Sr. Engineering Manager to our team of relationship-builders who are laser-focused on providing exceptional service to our students. We are tenacious and resilient in pursuing personal and professional success while incorporating fun into every day! A Fastest-Growing Private Company by Inc. Southwest Regionals, and a

So What's the Job? 

We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the technical delivery and ongoing evolution of the backend systems that power our student journey.  This role owns the services and integrations that connect our middleware to core platforms across our learning ecosystem - including learning management systems (Brightspace), community tooling (Circle), and other downstream systems - ensuring a reliable, scalable, and cohesive end-to-end experience for our students.

This is a hands-on leadership role: you’ll directly manage a small team of engineers, guide technical execution day-to-day, communicate clearly and proactively with the team, and stay close enough to the work to help unblock delivery and raise the bar on quality, speed, and clarity.

You’ll report to the SVP of Engineering and partner closely on architectural decisions and technical direction. While major platform choices are made collaboratively, you’ll be empowered to make technical calls for your team and act as the primary technical voice in cross-functional partnerships, especially with Product.

Why This Role Matters

This role directly impacts the student experience and the systems that power learning delivery. You’ll lead the team responsible for making sure students can access, navigate, and complete their learning experience smoothly and reliably, while helping us scale and modernize the platform behind it.

What will you do?

• Team Leadership + Delivery
• • Lead and grow a team of 4+ individual contributors, plus external resources/partners as needed
  • Drive execution across sprint work, roadmap delivery, and fast-moving priorities
  • Keep the team focused, unblocked, and operating with clear expectations, predictability, and strong accountability
  • Coach engineers through technical decision-making, solution design, and reliable delivery

• Platform & Student Experience Systems
• • Own delivery across key platforms and systems that support the student learning experience, including:
  • Brightspace (LMS)
  • Middleware/integration services
  • Community platform tooling (Circle)
  • Maintain system reliability and ensure a high-quality student experience (performance, stability, usability)

• Technical Ownership + Architecture Influence
• • Stay hands-on enough to review code, guide implementation, and support complex problem-solving
  • Stay technically engaged by contributing non-critical-path code changes when helpful
  • Contribute to architecture and solution design decisions (you won’t be the “architect in a vacuum,” but you will inform and shape the decisions)
  • Serve as a technical soundboard for engineers and help the team make confident, high-quality calls

• Cross-Functional Partnership
• • Partner closely with Product to translate roadmap goals into executable technical plans
  • Triage incoming work and balance co