Engineering Manager, Platform

Nourish•San Francisco, CA

4h•Hybrid

About The Position

Nourish is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead Platform Engineering, the team responsible for managing Nourish's technical infrastructure systems ensuring system reliability and scalability, while accelerating developer velocity as we grow both our team and our product rapidly! You'd own the architecture that keeps patient and provider workflows dependable under increasing load, build the architecture that lets product teams ship without rethinking infra patterns, and help harden our shared LLM/RAG systems into safe, measurable, production-grade systems. This is a full-time role. We strongly prefer candidates based in New York City or San Francisco, with exceptions for truly exceptional candidates. Check out Engineering at Nourish to learn more about our team and what we’ve already built.

Requirements

6+ years of professional software engineering experience with modern full-stack technologies
2+ years of hands-on engineering management experience.
Have hired engineers and managed performance, promotions, and career development.
Remain technical enough to pair program with your team and contribute directly when needed.
Bring exceptional cross functional judgment: you can write a PRD, understand product team bottlenecks, size an opportunity, and make progress without waiting on external stakeholders.
Are highly proficient with TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, ECS on AWS, or similar modern stacks.
Have shipped and owned production systems in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
Balance people leadership with technical depth, delivery focus, and clear communication.
Are energized by Nourish’s mission to improve people’s health by making it easy to eat well.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare or regulated-industry experience (HIPAA-covered systems, BAAs with vendors, access controls)
IaC experience (Terraform, AWS CDK)
Observability instrumentation (we use OTel to Axiom)
Incident leadership (on-call rotations, incident response, postmortem followthrough)
Developer experience history (CI, internal tooling)
Security engineering experience (vulnerability management, POLP enforcement, SOC 2 compliance)

Responsibilities

Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of 4–5 engineers with strong technical ownership.
Coach engineers through regular feedback, career development, calibration, and performance management.
Scale the team through recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
Stay hands-on through architecture, pair programming, coding, code reviews, and on-call.
Set the vision and roadmap for the team by collaborating with engineering leads, security, IT, and other cross functional partners.
Drive thoughtful decisions around system design, code quality, observability, reliability, and scalability.
Establish effective team rituals, including sprint planning, OKR planning and reporting, quarterly planning, and retrospectives.
Operate with urgency and sound judgment in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Set the technical direction for systems that support business-critical work across the engineering org.
Report on platform health to leadership through clear metrics like uptime, incident response time, infrastructure cost, and time-to-production KPIs.
Partner with our IT and legal teams to maintain and improve our posture on security and compliance controls.
Build reliable, auditable systems that can safely scale through rapid growth and regulatory complexity.