Senior Engineering Manager, Backend Platform

Skills

About the Role

You will lead the Backend Platform team that owns frameworks, libraries and core abstractions for product engineers. You will set the technical vision, scale the data layer, make failure boring through reliability work, embed security, and stay close to architecture and code while hiring and growing engineers.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering and 3+ years of engineering management experience
• Deep backend architecture and distributed systems judgment
• Experience building shared libraries, frameworks or internal platforms
• Technical depth for design and code reviews; Python with Flask or FastAPI valuable
• Track record of hiring, coaching and developing engineers
• Product instincts for developer tools
• Experience embedding reliability, observability and security into shared systems
• Clear communication and cross-team leadership
• Hands-on use of AI coding agents

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Backend Platform team
• Define the platform technical vision and roadmap
• Guide design of shared frameworks for database access, session management, caching, request handling and streaming
• Evolve database, replica and storage usage with Infrastructure
• Build a data access layer and scale the data layer
• Improve reliability with load testing, circuit breakers and standard outbound clients
• Partner on security and workspace isolation
• Establish modular boundaries and automated checks for humans and AI agents
• Reduce latency and improve observability
• Lead architecture discussions and review critical code

Benefits

• Equity