Sr. Engineering Manager, App Platform & Developer Experience

Highspot • Seattle, WA

174d

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager, App Platform to lead a critical engineering function at Highspot. This team is responsible for delivering high-impact investments across the application stack designed to mitigate critical business risks, enhance engineering productivity, and ensure the long-term scalability, security, and maintainability of the Highspot platform.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will play a key role in driving Highspot’s long-term technology vision and platform strategy, while also ensuring day-to-day operational excellence. You will lead a team of highly-skilled engineers, provide technical direction, collaborate across Engineering and Product, and ensure our core platform enables our team to deliver quickly and at high quality.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years in engineering leadership roles.
• Strong full-stack engineering background involving SPA web application development, distributed systems, relational and non-relational databases, and cloud infrastructure, with specific expertise in designing and evolving service-oriented architectures.
• Demonstrated success in leading and executing complex refactoring efforts to decompose monolithic applications into microservices or other distributed patterns
• A results-driven approach to removing friction from software development processes through platform developer experience, and tooling investments.
• Proven track record of scaling SaaS platforms and leading teams responsible for mission-critical backend systems.
• Ability to influence without authority with past experience successfully driving cross-functional engineering efforts.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and executive stakeholder management skills.
• Passion for developing people and building strong, healthy engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

• Recent hands-on experience developing in Ruby and TypeScript.
• Past experience directly leading internal-facing developer experience or platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the App Platform team
• Drive the technical roadmap and vision for the platform, providing a robust front-end and back-end foundation and tools to accelerate delivery and improve developer experience.
• Lead initiatives to evolve our architecture towards a highly distributed, service-oriented model, including strategic refactoring of existing monolithic components.
• Partner closely with Infrastructure teams to drive end-to-end developer experience improvements from local development through production deployment
• Define standards, patterns, and practices for software development across Highspot
• Contribute to architectural decisions that shape the long-term direction of Highspot’s SaaS platform, with a focus on designing and implementing scalable, decoupled services.
• Attract, retain, and develop top engineering talent, building a high-performing and inclusive team culture.
• Communicate effectively with senior leadership, providing visibility into roadmap progress, technical trade-offs, and organizational needs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401(k) Matching with immediate vesting on employer match
• Flexible PTO
• 8 paid holidays and 5 paid days for Annual Holiday Week
• Quarterly Recharge Fridays (paid days off for mental health recharge)
• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Access to Coaches and Therapists through Modern Health
• 2 volunteer days per year
• Commuting benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed