Engineering Manager (Platform)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Platform): Leading the self-serve developer platform to enable fast and high-standard software delivery with an accent on infrastructure, tooling, and AI-augmented development. Focus on reducing cognitive load for engineers, managing technical trade-offs in reliability and security, and scaling the paved path for a growing engineering organization.

Location: Must be based in the U.S.

Compensation: $200K – $400K

Company

An app-based marketplace connecting healthcare professionals with workplaces to provide essential care across the United States.

What you will do

• Lead the Platform team in building a self-serve developer platform encompassing infrastructure, tools, and processes.
• Co-own customer outcomes with product teams, applying a customer-centric mindset to solve engineering bottlenecks.
• Balance technical direction, execution, and people development, coaching engineers to maintain high delivery standards.
• Define and build the "paved path" to reduce cognitive load and centralize cross-cutting friction.
• Manage technical risks and opportunities introduced by AI-augmented and AI-autonomous development.

Requirements

• Must be based in the United States.
• Strong first-principles thinking with the ability to dive deep into complex problems.
• Proven ownership and judgement in taking responsibility for technical outcomes.
• Deep technical strength to reason about trade-offs in systems, infrastructure, reliability, and security.
• Customer-centric approach to prioritization and problem-solving.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work environment with a global team of over 1,000 people.
• High level of autonomy and ownership over the full software development lifecycle.
• Opportunity to work in a profitable, high-growth Y-Combinator company.
• Culture of high technical and execution bars with real ownership of built systems.

Hiring process

• Async Technical Design Document (TDD) review followed by a discussion with Engineering Leadership.
• Async EM Scenario exercise followed by a discussion with Engineering Leadership.
• Interviews with the CPO and co-CEO.