Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

Own end-to-end outcomes for the Platform Engineering domain, including strategy, technical direction, and results impacting the entire policy lifecycle systems.

Lead hiring, mentoring, and growth of engineering teams and leads, ensuring architectural excellence and coding standards across multiple teams.

Drive operational excellence including system reliability, observability, incident response, and cross-team architectural decisions influencing service decomposition and data consistency.

Minimum 3 years of engineering management experience, including managing senior ICs and platform teams in high-growth environments.

Proven experience with event-driven microservices (Kafka, async event processing, schema versioning) and backend architecture for large-scale web applications.

Hands-on familiarity with AWS, TypeScript/Node.js backend services; experience with monitoring tools like Datadog or equivalents.

Strong written communication skills demonstrated through PRDs, design documents, and postmortems.

Experienced leader who can operate both strategically and with technical depth, shaping architecture and team culture in a platform engineering context.

Track record of building high-performing engineering teams and mentoring senior engineers and leads.

Technically strong with direct experience in event-driven microservices and scalable backend architectures within cloud environments.