Director of Engineering

Keystone Education Group is proud “To help everyone in the world find the right education”. Keystone is a global leader in matching students with the right education. With a reach of more than 100 million unique prospective students every year, the company helps many people make one of the most important decisions of their lifetimes.

Keystone also offers education institutions an end-to-end solution across the entire student recruitment value chain, providing tech-powered student marketing and recruitment services to over 5,500 institutions in more than 190 countries.

The Search & Discovery Engineering organization at Keystone will spend the coming years consolidating and improving its platforms while developing new product features. To support this journey, Keystone is now looking to appoint a Director of Engineering.

About the role

As Director of Engineering for Search & Discovery, you will lead an organization of 50+ engineers across multiple locations, reporting to the Executive Director of Product & Technology. Supported by Engineering Managers, a Principal Architect, and Senior Engineers, you will combine people leadership, operational excellence, and long-term engineering strategy. In addition to leading the overall organization, you will directly manage one of the squads and work closely with Product Management on planning, delivery, and product strategy.

You will own the engineering strategy, architecture, and delivery for the Search & Discovery business area, ensuring scalable, performant, and cost-effective solutions. A key part of the role is driving strong ways of working through agile principles, OKRs, and close collaboration with suppliers and stakeholders.

Our technology stack

The tech stack consists of Next.js, React, and TypeScript on the frontend, and .NET/C# on the backend. The platforms run in the cloud on AWS, GCP, and Vercel, with Elasticsearch, GraphQL, and REST as key components. CI/CD is managed through GitHub and GitHub Actions, and the organization is actively adopting AI using Python, OpenAI, and LangChain.

About you

You are an experienced engineering leader with a strong background in modern product development. You are comfortable operating at both strategic and operational levels, and you enjoy taking full responsibility for people, technology, and delivery. You lead with clarity and trust, balance long-term thinking with day-to-day execution, and create strong alignment between engineering, product, and business.

Your experience includes

• Several years in senior engineering leadership roles, including managing managers
• Leading engineering organizations of 30+ people across multiple locations
• Strong experience with modern product development practices (agile, lean, OKRs)
• Ownership of engineering strategy, architecture, and delivery for complex systems
• Building and operating scalable, cloud-based web platforms
• Cost-aware engineering leadership, including budgeting, prioritization, and cost efficiency
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, test automation, and engineering metrics
• Managing external suppliers and technology partners
• A genuine interest in AI and emerging trends in software engineering

Fluency in English is required. Swedish is not required, but the role is based in Stockholm.