Engineering Manager, Platform Team
$197,000–$354,000 year
On-siteWashington, District of Columbia, United States or District of Columbia, United States
Job Summary
Lead and develop a cross-disciplinary team of engineers spanning frontend, backend, and infrastructure. Own the technical roadmap and 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.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 3–5 years of engineering management experience, with a track record of delivering on time at high quality
- Led teams of mixed discipline (frontend, backend, and/or infrastructure engineers) and managed engineers across seniority levels
- 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
- Owned a technical roadmap and made sound prioritization calls under real constraints
- Built and maintained platform or shared-service capabilities consumed by other engineering teams, or are eager to grow into this responsibility
- Track record of developing ICs: clear expectations, regular feedback, and coaching that creates growth
- Must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in defense, intelligence, or national security technology environments
- Worked with graph databases (e.g., Neo4j) or graph-based modeling for complex analytical problems
- Built or scaled enterprise features: multi-tenancy, RBAC, audit logging, or similar
- Led teams shipping authentication and authorization infrastructure (AuthN, AuthZ, SSO)
- Experience with secure development practices for government or controlled environments
- Background in cybersecurity, networking, or data-intensive domains — cyber operations experience is a plus but not a requirement
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