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Senior Engineering Manager

267k – 315kUnited StatesEngineering ManagementRemote7+ YOE
Summary

Lead engineering teams building backend, infrastructure, and AI systems for a social product studio. Own people management, delivery, and technical direction as a player-coach with 7+ years engineering and 2+ years management experience.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build and support the engineering team by working with recruiting to hire engineers
  • Guide development of backend and infrastructure systems
  • Turn product and technical vision into monthly roadmaps
  • Collaborate with EPD leadership to improve shipping velocity
  • Partner with platform lead on backend technical standards
  • Own incident process and developer-experience improvements
  • Lead changes to enable AI-assisted development across the platform
  • Work with engineers, product managers, and data scientists to co-create solutions
  • Convert technical and product visions into tangible roadmaps with leadership
  • Identify and execute high-impact opportunities in cost efficiency, performance, and user safety
  • Partner with product, finance, and trust & safety teams

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience (ideally backend, platform, or infrastructure)
  • 2+ years of engineering management experience
  • Experience sourcing and hiring engineers
  • Experience supporting a team of 6+ engineers through coaching and career development
  • Strong understanding of high-quality code and engineering processes
  • Ability to support architecture decisions for systems that scale from thousands to millions of users
  • Proficiency with modern AI tooling and ability to enable AI-assisted development
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Bias toward shipping and getting things done in fast-paced environments
  • Commitment to coaching, developing, and supporting team members
  • Low-ego, team-first mindset with focus on collaborative environments

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with AI-fluent development practices
  • Entrepreneurial mindset and comfort with ambiguity
Skills
Backend EngineeringInfrastructurePlatform EngineeringEngineering ManagementAI ToolingSystem ArchitectureIncident ManagementDeveloper ExperienceRoadmappingTeam Building
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