Engineering Manager

Playlist

About The Position

You’ll lead a newer team in the Playlist platform org - ensuring that we’re building a base foundation that will scale out to serve the needs of customers across the Playlist portfolio. As a strategic technical leader, you’ll work across teams, pillars, and technical stacks to make standard interfaces and models to accelerate our other verticals. Coach and Empower your engineering team to deliver high levels of technical quality and business impact. Actively participate in strategic direction and product decisions for your team Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of the Playlist engineering management team. Make critical architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term system flexibility. Establish clear goals, prioritize resources, and guide team execution through complex, ambiguous challenges Collaborate with Product and other Engineering teams to design and deliver a robust standard Contact solution that serves a variety of verticals and CRM use cases.

Requirements

3+ years of direct management experience with an engineering team of at least 6 members with skills across the stack
Proven track record and hands-on experience designing, data-modeling, and building production cloud platforms (AWS) at scale.
Strong grounding in infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD, with operational rigor across incident response, observability, networking, identity, compute, and storage at scale.
Proven ability to establish and articulate a vision, set goals, and execute effectively.
Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to cross-functional stakeholders
Demonstrated success in establishing technical vision and driving measurable outcomes

Nice To Haves

experience in at least one aspect of developing a world-class cloud platform and can effectively manage a high-performing team throughout the entire process.

Responsibilities

Coach and Empower your engineering team to deliver high levels of technical quality and business impact.
Actively participate in strategic direction and product decisions for your team
Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of the Playlist engineering management team.
Make critical architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term system flexibility.
Establish clear goals, prioritize resources, and guide team execution through complex, ambiguous challenges
Collaborate with Product and other Engineering teams to design and deliver a robust standard Contact solution that serves a variety of verticals and CRM use cases.