Engineering Manager, Platform Team

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a cross-disciplinary team of engineers spanning frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
• Own the technical roadmap; partner with the Product Manager on the product roadmap.
• Run projects and workstreams end-to-end—setting timelines, resolving blockers, and keeping the team moving.
• Guide architecture and technical decisions across the platform stack to keep systems coherent, secure, and scalable.
• Establish and enforce engineering quality standards: design reviews, testing discipline, documentation, and security practices.
• Define and maintain the interfaces and shared capabilities that feature teams consume.
• Hire, onboard, and develop engineers; give direct feedback, build growth plans, and cultivate technical leadership within the team.
• Run structured hiring end-to-end: define the bar, build the interview process, run rigorous debriefs, and close strong candidates.
• Collaborate with feature teams and other internal consumers to ensure platform capabilities meet their needs.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and communicate clearly on timelines, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Occasionally contribute hands-on—code review, implementation, or debugging—when it unblocks the team or accelerates delivery.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3–5 years of engineering management experience, with a track record of delivering on time at high quality.
• Led teams of mixed discipline (frontend, backend, and/or infrastructure engineers) and managed engineers across seniority levels.
• Strong technical breadth across modern web platforms and backend services: able to read the code, evaluate architecture, and understand interface contracts.
• Owned a technical roadmap and made sound prioritization calls under real constraints.
• Built and maintained platform or shared-service capabilities consumed by other engineering teams (or eager to grow into this).
• Track record of developing ICs: clear expectations, regular feedback, and coaching that creates growth.
• Must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in defense, intelligence, or national security technology environments.
• Worked with graph databases (e.g., Neo4j) or graph-based modeling for complex analytical problems.
• Built or scaled enterprise features: multi-tenancy, RBAC, audit logging, or similar.
• Led teams shipping authentication and authorization infrastructure (AuthN, AuthZ, SSO).
• Experience with secure development practices for government or controlled environments.
• Background in cybersecurity, networking, or data-intensive domains.

Tech Environment

• React + TypeScript for user-facing applications and shared UI components.
• Go (and sometimes Python) for backend services and integrations.
• Neo4j and graph-based data modeling for core platform capabilities.
• PostgreSQL, Terraform, Ansible, and infrastructure-as-code.
• AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tooling.

Benefits

• Health: Medical, dental, and vision plan options. Life / AD&D, disability coverage options.
• Family: Paid parental leave (12 weeks for birthing parents, 4 for non-birthing, 6 weeks for adoptive/foster/surrogacy).
• Vacation: Paid holidays and flexible PTO.
• Retirement: 401(k) with pre-tax and Roth options. HSA/FSA options, dependent care FSA.
• At the office: Commuter benefits, on-site garage parking, bike storage, building fitness center, desk setup stipend.
• Benefits vary by location, role, and eligibility.