Senior Manager, Engineering – Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Georgia.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the entire people-management lifecycle for the Platform team, starting with around five engineers and expanding.

• Remain engaged with engineering tasks by reviewing designs and pertinent pull requests, identifying gaps proactively.

• Facilitate planning sessions, daily standups, and retrospectives.

• Report on delivery, quality, risk, and resource allocation to engineering leadership.

• Serve as the Platform product lead and manage the roadmap.

• Define Platform products, target customers, priorities, success metrics, and adoption objectives.

• Communicate updates on Platform releases, roadmap, and usage to Engineering and leadership teams.

• Drive the adoption of Platform products and features in collaboration with product engineering leaders.

• Collect feedback from product engineering teams and integrate it into the roadmap.

• Oversee documentation, migration strategies, and enablement resources.

• Conduct weekly one-on-one meetings, performance evaluations, compensation recommendations, and promotion discussions.

• Address performance-related issues and manage sensitive conversations.

• Lead the complete engineering hiring process and nurture future tech leads and managers.

• Determine architectural direction and prioritize platform projects across quarters.

• Establish standards for code review, testing, and release processes.

• Promote AI adoption and enhance legacy team processes through AI integration.

• Manage tooling, infrastructure, and contractor expenditures while identifying budget risks.

• Ensure reliability through monitoring, incident response, thorough root-cause analysis, and on-call discipline.

• Represent the Platform in cross-team planning, manage dependencies, and renegotiate scope when capacity limits are reached.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in engineering management.

• Proven experience leading teams of 5 or more engineers with consistent delivery and team development.

• Over 5 years of experience as a high-performing individual contributor engineer.

• Experience managing the roadmap of a platform, tooling, or shared service utilized by other engineering teams.

• Demonstrated experience assisting engineering teams in adopting internal platforms or developer tools.

• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and service architecture, focusing on reliability, scalability, and system design trade-offs.

• Direct experience addressing underperformance, conflict resolution, difficult exits, and performance management.

• Comprehensive involvement in the hiring lifecycle: sourcing, interviewing, closing, and onboarding engineers.

• Established process for objectively assessing team and individual performance.

• Decision-making based on evidence.

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.

• Effective communication skills with engineers, product managers, and executives.

• Ability to delegate and develop team members to amplify impact.

• Capacity to navigate ambiguity and foster alignment without formal authority.

• Balanced judgment between innovation, quality, and delivery constraints.

• Understanding of AI coding tools and ability to guide AI-assisted development while maintaining quality and independent technical assessment.

• Strongly preferred: experience in driving the adoption of internal platforms or developer tools across various engineering teams.

• Strongly preferred: production experience with Elixir or TypeScript, with a desire to become proficient in both.

• Strongly preferred: background in leading platform, infrastructure, or shared-services teams.

• Strongly preferred: experience scaling teams across multiple functions amid increasing scale and scope.

• Strongly preferred: experience managing systems through significant growth in load, usage, or complexity.

• Nice to have: familiarity with event-driven architecture.

• Nice to have: experience with incident response and post-incident enhancements across multiple teams.

• Nice to have: experience implementing AI-enabled workflows.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible work hours and remote work opportunities.

• Professional development and continuous learning support.

• Generous vacation and paid time off policy.

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.