Senior Engineering Manager

About the role

What you will do

• Own the vision and roadmap for assessment platform, working closely with Product to shape priorities.
• Architect systems that reliably handle 100k+ concurrent users.
• Own delivery commitments and run the team's day-to-day execution using agile practices.
• Ensure operational excellence: reliability, incident response, security and privacy.
• Hire, mentor and grow engineers, and set clear career paths for each team member.
• Define how the team uses AI tools in development to improve quality and speed.
• Partner with Product, infrastructure and Security teams.

Who you are

• 8+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams.
• Strong experience designing highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant, secure distributed systems and large-scale web services.
• Strong technical leadership, with the ability to drive critical architecture discussions.
• Proven record of hiring, leading and mentoring technical teams and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Hands-on proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, Ruby or Node.js
• Strong hands-on proficiency in at least one of AWS or GCP.
• Clear communicator who thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments.
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• Experience building or scaling cloud IDEs, remote dev environments, or online coding platforms, with a developer-first mindset.
• Hands-on depth in containers, Kubernetes, and on-demand VM or sandboxed compute at scale.
• A track record of load testing, autoscaling, and capacity planning for spiky, event-driven traffic.
• Experience driving AI-assisted development practices across an engineering team.
• You will thrive in this role if you
• Enjoy balancing hands-on technical contributions with people leadership.
• Think strategically about long-term platform scalability while delivering short-term results.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Take ownership end-to-end from roadmap definition to execution and team growth.
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