Engineering Leader - Platform Engineering

Basis AI • New York, NY

75d • $100,000 - $300,000

About The Position

As an Engineering Leader on the Platform team, your job is to make the team successful—to achieve ambitious technical goals and to build the people and systems that make that success sustainable. You’ll be responsible for shaping technical direction, building world-class engineers, and ensuring that what we build today still feels right a year from now. This is a highly hands-on leadership role: you’ll design systems, review architecture, debug hard problems, and set standards for technical excellence—but you’ll also coach, grow, and unblock others so that great things happen without you.

Requirements

• Think in systems—technical, human, and organizational—and can navigate all three.
• See the success of the company and the success of the team as one and the same.
• Are equally comfortable designing a schema, writing a Terraform module, or coaching someone through a tough conversation.
• Communicate clearly, make decisions with conviction, and are unafraid to challenge ideas to find the best one.
• Are relentlessly curious and iterative—learning, refining, and raising the bar every week.

Responsibilities

• Drive impact at the company level
• Translate company priorities into clear technical goals for the platform team.
• Align infra, data, and modeling work so that Basis ships faster and more reliably.
• Look around corners: anticipate scaling, cost, and reliability challenges before they arrive.
• Make tradeoffs that serve the long-term mission, not just the local optimum.
• Build and grow the team
• Hire, mentor, and grow exceptional engineers.
• Create an environment where people are challenged, supported, and proud of their craft.
• Foster a culture of clarity, accountability, and feedback—where problems are owned and learning is shared.
• Model calmness, authenticity, and conviction, especially when things are uncertain.
• Elevate the craft
• Be deeply technical: design architectures, review critical code, and guide standards for performance and reliability.
• Insist on simple, elegant systems and crisp boundaries between layers.
• Continuously improve processes—recruiting, onboarding, incident response, project planning—so that the organization scales with the product.
• Leave every system and every person better than you found them.

Benefits

• Eligible to participate in our equity plan and benefits program.
• Meritocratic and competitive compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees