Senior Engineer Manager, Machinify

• We're seeking an exceptional Senior Engineering Manager who combines deep technical expertise in platform engineering with proven people leadership skills
• This role requires someone who has built middleware and services for multiple applications at scale, understands what makes great platform engineering, and can evangelize platform adoption across the organization
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in backend systems, distributed architecture, and platform engineering
• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading teams of 6-10+ engineers; proven ability to hire, develop, and retain top talent
• Platform Engineering Expertise: You've built middleware, shared services, or platform capabilities that serve multiple applications and teams; you understand what makes a great internal platform
• Distributed Systems Experience: Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), API design, and service mesh patterns. Experience deploying such services to production at scale
• Backend Technology Depth: Proficiency in modern backend languages (Scala, Java, Python, Go, or similar) and frameworks; experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Proven ability to lead initiatives across multiple teams; experience working with product managers, designers, and other engineering leaders to drive outcomes
• Super Organized and Detail-Oriented: Exceptional project management skills; ability to juggle multiple initiatives, track dependencies, and deliver on commitments; creates clarity from ambiguity
• Technical Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to write clear RFCs, architecture docs, and API specifications; can explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Product Mindset: Treats the platform as a product with internal customers; gathers requirements, prioritizes based on impact, and measures adoption and satisfaction

Desirable

• You'll lead the team responsible for building and evolving our internal platform-as-a-product—the self-service APIs, tools, services, and infrastructure that enable our product teams to ship faster, safer, and more reliably
• You'll manage a team of backend engineers working on critical platform capabilities including feature flagging, job processing infrastructure, event-driven architecture, observability, data query layer, application framework and developer tooling
• This is a hands-on, technically deep leadership role where you'll balance strategic platform roadmap planning with day-to-day execution and team development
• Lead Platform Engineering Initiatives: Own the technical roadmap and execution for Core Platform services which are the foundations for the business application verticals, and enabling them at scale
• Build and Grow High-Performing Teams: Manage, mentor, and develop a team of backend engineers; conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, career development conversations, and hiring
• Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product engineering teams to understand their needs and evolve the platform to serve them better; act as an internal consultant and evangelist for platform adoption
• Architect Scalable Platform Solutions: Own the design and implementation middleware and services that support multiple applications; ensure platform components are composable, flexible, secure-by-default, and self-service
• Participate in architecture reviews, write RFCs, and drive technical decision-making; stay hands-on with code reviews and technical guidance when needed
• Champion Engineering Excellence: Establish best practices for platform development including API design, versioning, backward compatibility, observability, and documentation; reduce cognitive load for platform consumers
• Balance Technical Debt and Innovation: Make strategic tradeoffs between feature velocity, technical debt, and platform evolution; use data and ROI frameworks (RICE, etc.) to prioritize initiatives
• Improve Developer Experience: Measure and optimize platform adoption, API usability, and developer productivity; build tools and documentation that enable self-service
• Navigate Healthcare Complexity: Understand the unique constraints of healthcare systems including compliance, data security, multi-tenancy, and audit requirements; ensure platform solutions meet healthcare standards
• Own Operational Excellence: Ensure platform services meet SLAs for availability, performance, and reliability; Establish monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes