Senior Engineering Manager, Core AI Platform
Dropbox
Senior Engineering Manager, App Platform
Highspot
full-time
Posted on:
Location: Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $167,000 - $290,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
CloudDistributed SystemsMicroservicesRubySparkTypeScript
About the role
- Lead and grow the App Platform team
- Drive the technical roadmap and vision for the platform, providing a robust front-end and back-end foundation and tools to accelerate delivery and improve developer experience.
- Lead initiatives to evolve our architecture towards a highly distributed, service-oriented model, including strategic refactoring of existing monolithic components.
- Partner closely with Infrastructure teams to drive end-to-end developer experience improvements from local development through production deployment
- Define standards, patterns, and practices for software development across Highspot
- Contribute to architectural decisions that shape the long-term direction of Highspot’s SaaS platform, with a focus on designing and implementing scalable, decoupled services.
- Attract, retain, and develop top engineering talent, building a high-performing and inclusive team culture.
- Communicate effectively with senior leadership, providing visibility into roadmap progress, technical trade-offs, and organizational needs.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years in engineering leadership roles.
- Strong full-stack engineering background involving SPA web application development, distributed systems, relational and non-relational databases, and cloud infrastructure, with specific expertise in designing and evolving service-oriented architectures.
- Demonstrated success in leading and executing complex refactoring efforts to decompose monolithic applications into microservices or other distributed patterns
- A results-driven approach to removing friction from software development processes through platform developer experience, and tooling investments.
- Proven track record of scaling SaaS platforms and leading teams responsible for mission-critical backend systems.
- Ability to influence without authority with past experience successfully driving cross-functional engineering efforts.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and executive stakeholder management skills.
- Passion for developing people and building strong, healthy engineering teams.
