Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

Global🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-02 → 2026-09-26

Core

Senior Engineering Manager owning a domain of the cash delivery platform (payments, core platform, or data collection) to scale software delivering $5B/year to recipients in poverty.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager (IC + Management)

Builds

Cash delivery platform (payments, data model, web app, enrollment tooling) for recipients in low-income countries

Domain

Non-profit / International Development / Fintech

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Engineering management, team building, recruiting, technical architecture judgment, stakeholder management, operational excellence, product ownership, low-connectivity system design

Preferred skills

Experience in low-income communities, agentic engineering, building engineering culture in high-growth environments

Technologies

Mobile money rails, banking APIs, cloud services, databases, Salesforce, offline-first tooling

Responsibilities

Manage team of 5–7 senior engineers, own domain technical outcomes and reliability, partner with product on roadmap, drive operational excellence (on-call, incident response), represent team with stakeholders, set technical quality bar

Seniority

Senior Manager, hands-on leadership

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About GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly has delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ million people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011. We believe cash transfers are one of the most scalable, cost-effective, and dignified forms of aid, with the research to back it up. Our work has been covered by The Economist, NPR, TED, and The Washington Post. We are one of Time100’s Most Influential Companies of 2026. 