Core Engineering Senior Manager

About the role

The role is hands-on and involves translating the Chief Architect's vision into shipped code, leading a team of 5–10 engineers, staying hands-on, mentoring engineers, and driving platform reliability.

Responsibilities

• Translate the Chief Architect’s vision into shipped code - you're the person who makes sure what's on the whiteboard is what's actually running in production
• Lead a team of 5–10 engineers day-to-day - 1:1s, growth plans, performance conversations, hiring, and making sure people are doing their best work
• Stay hands-on - lead the hardest reviews, pair on tough debugging sessions, surface the right issues, make sound calls in the gaps, and don't let things drift
• Mentor engineers at all levels - grow juniors into mids, mids into seniors, and help your seniors think like tech leads
• Partner with the Technical Project Manager on sprint planning, capacity, estimates, and delivery tracking - you bring the technical truth, they bring the delivery discipline
• Own technical execution quality - code review standards, architectural pattern adherence, testing rigor, observability, and operational readiness
• Make tactical technical decisions inside established architectural guardrails - library choices, implementation approaches, refactor timing - and know when to escalate
• Drive platform reliability - uptime, performance, security posture, incident response, and post-mortems that actually change things
• Build a culture of engineering craftsmanship - the kind where the team holds the bar even when no one’s watching

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years leading engineering teams in production environments
• Strong track record executing on technical direction set by architects or senior technical leadership - comfortable making vision real, not always defining it
• Deep working knowledge of microservices, cloud-native design patterns, and API-first development
• Strong experience with Python, GraphQL, REST APIs, SQL, and modern development toolchains
• Solid background in CI/CD, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), infrastructure as code, and DevSecOps practices
• Shipped production systems on AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure - ideally multi-tenant SaaS
• Comfortable running agile delivery - sprints, estimation, capacity planning, Jira or equivalent
• Excellent code reviewer - you spot pattern violations, security issues, and quality gaps before they reach production
• Strong written and verbal communication - you can give clear status to leadership and hard feedback to engineers
• Detail-oriented - things don’t fall through the cracks on your watch
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong Preference For Experience leading small-to-mid sized engineering teams (5–10) in fast-paced environments
• Background building enterprise SaaS platforms or developer-facing products
• Experience with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio or similar), and federated GraphQL
• Exposure to AI/ML platforms, agentic workflows, or LLM-based product features
• Experience leading distributed or remote engineering teams
• Strong familiarity with observability, monitoring, SRE practices, and incident response
• History of growing engineers - people who’ve worked for you have moved up because of it

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications
• Preferred Qualifications