Engineering Manager, Platform Team

Twenty•Washington, DC

7d•$197,000 - $354,000•Onsite

About The Position

You will lead the Platform Team—the engineering foundation that makes our core product usable, governable, and scalable across organizations. Your team owns the enterprise capabilities that allow customers to onboard, administer, and secure Twenty's products; the shared UI framework consumed by feature teams across the product; and the infrastructure underpinning it all. This is a platform-oriented role with a customer-facing component. Much of what your team builds is consumed as a service by feature teams—your work is a critical dependency for engineering across the product. You'll own the technical roadmap and partner closely with a Product Manager who spans both platform and feature teams and owns the product roadmap. Day to day, you'll lead a growing team of engineers across frontend, backend, and infrastructure—keeping everyone pointed in the right direction, running projects, resolving technical dependencies, setting standards, and shipping. This is a player-coach role. Your primary function is management and delivery, with occasional hands-on technical contributions when it accelerates the team.

Requirements

You have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
You have 3–5 years of engineering management experience, with a track record of delivering on time at high quality.
You've led teams of mixed discipline (frontend, backend, and/or infrastructure engineers) and managed engineers across seniority levels.
You have strong technical breadth across modern web platforms and backend services: you can read the code, evaluate architecture, and understand interface contracts without being a specialist in every layer.
You've owned a technical roadmap and made sound prioritization calls under real constraints.
You've built and maintained platform or shared-service capabilities consumed by other engineering teams, or are eager to grow into this responsibility.
You have a track record of developing ICs: clear expectations, regular feedback, and coaching that creates growth.
You must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Nice To Haves

You have experience in defense, intelligence, or national security technology environments.
You've worked with graph databases (e.g., Neo4j) or graph-based modeling for complex analytical problems.
You've built or scaled enterprise features: multi-tenancy, RBAC, audit logging, or similar.
You've led teams shipping authentication and authorization infrastructure (AuthN, AuthZ, SSO).
You have experience with secure development practices for government or controlled environments.
You have background in cybersecurity, networking, or data-intensive domains — cyber operations experience is a plus but not a requirement.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a cross-disciplinary team of engineers spanning frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
Own the technical roadmap; partner with the Product Manager on the product roadmap.
Run projects and workstreams end-to-end—setting timelines, resolving blockers, and keeping the team moving.
Guide architecture and technical decisions across the platform stack to keep systems coherent, secure, and scalable.
Establish and enforce engineering quality standards: design reviews, testing discipline, documentation, and security practices.
Define and maintain the interfaces and shared capabilities that feature teams consume.
Hire, onboard, and develop engineers; give direct feedback, build growth plans, and cultivate technical leadership within the team.
Run structured hiring end-to-end: define the bar, build the interview process, run rigorous debriefs, and close strong candidates.
Collaborate with feature teams and other internal consumers to ensure platform capabilities meet their needs.
Coordinate cross-team dependencies and communicate clearly on timelines, risks, and tradeoffs.
Occasionally contribute hands-on—code review, implementation, or debugging—when it unblocks the team or accelerates delivery.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision plan options.
Life / AD&D, disability coverage options.
Paid parental leave for eligible full-time employees.
12 weeks for birthing parents, 4 for non-birthing parents, 6 weeks for adoptive, foster, or intended parents through surrogacy.
Paid holidays and flexible PTO.
401(k) with pre-tax and Roth options.
HSA/FSA options, dependent care FSA.
Commuter benefits.
On-site garage parking.
Bike storage.
Building fitness center.
Desk setup stipend.