CareerPlan

Engineer (Manager) - M2 - Palo Alto - 2026

Palo AltoFull-time2026-11-10 → 2026-11-12
Hybrid

Core

Lead engineering teams to deliver horizontally scalable microservices and distributed systems at scale.

Role type

Manager-level engineering leader (software architecture & team leadership)

Builds

Horizontally scalable microservices, high-throughput jobs, and distributed systems

Domain

Fintech / Cloud-native software engineering

Required skills

People management, software architecture design, agile team leadership, stakeholder alignment, performance assessment, hiring, functional programming concepts

Preferred skills

Background as a software engineer or software architect, experience with microservices and distributed systems

Technologies

Clojure, Finagle, Kafka, AWS, Datomic, DynamoDB, Prometheus, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Lead teams of 8-10 engineers, foster team culture and continuous improvement, conduct 1:1s and rituals, manage individual contributor performance, deliver distributed systems, align stakeholders on vision and metrics, reason about architecture, implement process improvements

Seniority

Manager, hands-on leadership