Senior Engineering Manager, Core AI Platform
Dropbox
Software Engineering Manager
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full-time
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Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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SeniorLead
Tech Stack
JavaScriptNode.jsTypeScript
About the role
- Lead and scale a backend-focused engineering team: manage, mentor, and grow engineers; define technical vision and align execution with company and product strategy
- Oversee a multi-tenant integration architecture for high-throughput data ingestion; work with third-party APIs, file systems, authentication layers (OAuth, SAML), and more
- Ensure the platform is scalable, observable, and reliable across partner ecosystems
- Collaborate with external developers and partners to deliver seamless integrations; build internal tooling, documentation, and frameworks to support extensibility, adoption, and security
- Establish best practices for uptime, fault tolerance, schema mapping, data validation, and observability; champion quality and reliability across downstream systems
- Partner with Product, Machine Learning, and Customer Success teams to deliver integrated, AI-enhanced solutions and contribute to broader system architecture and long-term technical planning
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading backend or integrations teams
- Strong background in Node.js, TypeScript, and integration design (pagination, retries, token refresh, rate limiting)
- Proven experience designing scalable backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines
- Detail-oriented execution mindset with a strong focus on reliability and customer outcomes
- Bonus: Experience with document-heavy workflows, enterprise SaaS platforms, or field operations technology
