Sr. Engineering Manager - Core Platform

Role overview Lead an engineering team responsible for foundational platform capabilities, including identity, customer job processing, and design systems. Set the team’s direction and technical priorities, and help other product teams deliver reliable features as the organization expands its product portfolio. The work combines people leadership, portfolio ownership, and architectural guidance in a distributed environment.

Responsibilities - Hire, coach, and retain engineers across experience levels, while developing future technical leaders. - Work with product, design, customer-facing, and engineering partners to establish priorities, roadmaps, and longer-term strategy. - Own delivery and operational outcomes for critical systems, including their performance, reliability, and security at scale. - Set architectural guardrails and guide major technical decisions without serving as a hands-on contributor. - Improve team processes and contribute to engineering-wide initiatives with peer managers. - Help establish effective async collaboration across a team spanning several time zones.

Requirements - At least 5 years managing software engineers; remote-first SaaS or startup experience is useful. - At least 8 years of professional software development experience, ideally in product or full-stack engineering. - A record of hiring and developing engineers and supporting their career growth. - Experience delivering customer-focused product features across their lifecycle. - Technical depth to assess complex architecture and guide senior engineers’ decisions. - Strong written, interpersonal, and cross-functional communication, with ownership and adaptability in changing environments.

Benefits and work setup - Preferred location is the eastern or central United States, or Canada; the team works across roughly eight hours of time-zone difference. - Healthcare coverage, flexible time off and quarterly mental health days, professional development and caregiving stipends, and anniversary bonuses are listed. - A US retirement plan, Apple hardware, and employee resource groups are also offered.