Engineering Manager

Exiger•Richmond, VA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll guide a cross-functional team of backend, frontend, and infrastructure engineers to build reliable, scalable web applications and services that power our software development teams. You will play a key role in ensuring the quality, performance, and maintainability of our systems while helping your team deliver features quickly and effectively.

Requirements

Unyielding sense of ownership and accountability – you care about your work and it shows
6+ years of hands-on engineering experience including strong background in backend systems or data-intensive applications
2+ years of engineering management experience leading software teams
Complete understanding of cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and IAC
Experience building and scaling mission-critical, API-first PaaS and SaaS systems, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architectural vision
Proven track record of mentorship and fostering growth of engineers at all levels
Passion for data, analytics, and using technology to uncover meaningful insights
Experience working at a rapidly evolving, PE-backed startup

Nice To Haves

Experience operating in an air-gapped FedRAMP or DOD I/L environment

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of ~10 engineers (frontend, backend, and infrastructure), fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement
Set the strategic foundational direction for platform engineering across the entire Exiger engineering organization
Define short-term and long-term platform deliverable and ensure all active projects are aligned to leadership goals
Act as an organizational resource to unblock and enable multiple engineering teams across diverse platform challenges
Design solutions and processes that have meaningful impact across the entire tech org and Exiger’s business
Manage major company-level platform initiatives delivered by multiple teams
Instill and promote a culture of learning, engineering excellence, and platform ownership across engineering
Contribute to financial planning and the long-term success of the platform team with the business
Engage with AWS account teams, evaluate new AWS services for adoption, and influence how Exiger leverages AWS’s evolving platform
Own organizational runbook and platform documentation standards; ensure operational knowledge scales with the engineering organization
Lead hiring strategy and technical interview calibration for platform engineering; partner with engineering leadership on team growth
Ensure operational excellence, managing the CI/CD lifecycle, testing, deployments and self-healing architectures
Scale systems and processes as the company grows—helping us transition from rapid development to sustainable, high-quality delivery at scale