Highspot

Senior Engineering Manager, App Platform

Highspot

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Washington

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Salary

💰 $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.