Senior Engineering Manager, Platform
Core
Lead Platform Engineering teams to own the systems powering every policy sold, from customer funnel entry through policy lifetime.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager, Platform
Builds
The three-sided technology platform serving consumers, agents, and carriers
Domain
Life insurance technology
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering management in high-growth orgs, building high-performing teams, platform team leadership, cross-team architectural decision making, system reliability engineering, event-driven microservices architecture, backend architecture for large-scale web apps, AWS cloud infrastructure, TypeScript/Node.js backend development
Preferred skills
Go or Python backend development, Datadog for SLO definition and incident triage
Technologies
Kafka, AWS, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Python, relational databases, Datadog
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end outcomes for the domain including strategy and technical direction, hire and mentor engineers and leads, partner with Product and Staff Engineers on technical roadmap, set engineering quality bar for reliability and test coverage, drive operational excellence in observability and incident response, translate ambiguous business problems into scoped projects
Seniority
Senior, hands-on leadership