Salary
💰 $185,000 - $220,000 per year
Tech Stack
AndroidAWSCloudiOSJavaScriptNode.jsPostgresPythonReactReact NativeRedisRustTerraformTypeScript
About the role
- Lead one of our three Platform pods (Green pod), responsible for core backend systems and infrastructure.
- Grow and support engineers, align with staff and leadership on strategy, and help the team deliver reliability, performance, and enablement initiatives.
- Drive speed and quality of delivery by implementing helpful processes.
- Set technical quality standards and ensure proper debt investments while progressing product roadmaps.
- Support career development and equitable hiring, expand and uplevel engineers.
- Build engineering culture of shared success and failure, inclusion, equity, and continuous learning.
- Mentor team through technical challenges and up level problem-solving skills.
- Collaborate with sales/success, engineering managers, leadership, and senior/staff engineers to align team work with company-wide goals and impact.
Requirements
- You’re an engineering manager, with 5+ years of backend experience and 3+ years of people management.
- You bring depth in systems engineering or infrastructure, e.g., reliability engineering, cloud platforms (AWS/Terraform), distributed data architecture, or backend scaling.
- You’ve led teams through complex technical projects and understand how to balance speed, quality, and tech debt.
- You excel at coaching, feedback, and career development.
- You value inclusive collaboration and can partner well with other managers, product leads, and senior engineers.
- You’re pragmatic, accountable, and energized by challenges that span the entire stack.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the US and be within the New York City metro area.