Senior Engineering Manager, Exiger
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2 days a week in office
Risk & compliance software
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Risk & compliance software
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make the world a safer and more transparent place to succeed.
Role
Who you are
- Unyielding sense of ownership and accountability – you care about your work and it shows
- 6+ years of hands-on engineering experience including strong background in backend systems or data-intensive applications
- 3+ years of engineering management experience leading software teams
- Complete understanding of cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and IAC
- Experience building and scaling mission-critical, API-first SaaS systems, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architectural vision
- Proven track record of mentorship and fostering growth of engineers at all levels
- Passion for data, analytics, and using technology to uncover meaningful insights
- Experience working at a rapidly evolving, PE-backed startup
- Bonus points for experience operating in an air-gapped FedRAMP or DOD I/L environment
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced and passionate Engineering Manager to lead our Risk Team, the group responsible for our core risk engine — the cornerstone of our platform
- By combining data on global companies with signals from worldwide events, our Risk Team builds systems that transform massive volumes of raw data into actionable risk insights
- These insights help our customers identify and mitigate potential risks in their suppliers and partners, driving smarter and safer business decisions
- As an Engineering Manager, you’ll guide a cross-functional team of backend, frontend, and data engineers to build reliable, scalable web applications and services that power our SaaS platform
- You will play a key role in ensuring the quality, performance, and maintainability of our systems while helping your team deliver features quickly and effectively
- Own Exiger’s Risk function end-to-end
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of ~10 engineers (frontend, backend, and data), fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement
- Drive delivery of new features across multiple services and systems, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-quality releases
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, Data Science, Infrastructure, as well as other dev teams to align priorities and deliver business value
- Oversee architecture and design decisions, helping the team make tradeoffs between performance, scalability, and time-to-market
- Ensure reliability and observability across our microservices ecosystem, including production monitoring, alerting, and recovery
- Ensure operational excellence, managing the CI/CD lifecycle, testing, and deployments
- Scale systems and processes as the company grows—helping us transition from rapid development to sustainable, high-quality delivery at scale
- Our tech stack:
- Core Platform: Java (21+) / Spring Boot; Python / Celery
- Data: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake
- Frontend: TypeScript / Angular
- Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes via Helm and Argo CD; AWS via Terraform
- Testing: Testcontainers, WireMock, JUnit, Pytest, Cypress
- Observability: ELK, DataDog
- Architecture: Event-Driven Microservices
Our take
Exiger is a risk and compliance company specializing in third-party, supply chain and customer resilience. It supplies a range of software and tech-enabled solutions for businesses to enhance both safety and transparency in an increasingly cyber-risk-heavy environment.
The company's flagship offering is the award-winning 1Exiger platform. Currently, it is the only open-source third-party supply chain management software that works in real time. This enables companies and government agencies to continuously improve resilience and compliance, as well as cut costs.
With over a decade of experience under its belt, Exiger is an expert choice for businesses across a wide range of sectors. Recently, it has focussed on expanding its capabilities through acquisitions, such as that of supply chain risk visibility platform aDolus and proprietary parts intelligence company XSB.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2018
$80m
SERIES A
Total funding: $80m
Company benefits
- Discretionary time off for all employees, with no maximum limits on time off
- Industry leading health, vision and dental benefits
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Flexible, hybrid approach to working from home and in the office where applicable
- Focus on wellness and employee health through stipends and dedicated wellness programming
- Purposeful career development programs with reimbursement provided for educational certifications
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Beber
(Board Chair)Former President and CEO of the company. Previously a Board Member at Accordion, Co-founder and Board Chair at ArborTrek Canopy Adventures, and President and CEO at Altegrity Risk International.
Michael Cherkasky
(Board Member)Chair of BrightLineGRC. Former CEO of Altegrity, Marsh & McLennan Companies and Kroll, as well as working in the Chief Investigation Division of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
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