Engineering Manager

LOCATION: Mclean, VA or Richmond, VA or New York City

WORK TYPE: Hybrid (2 days per week)

About the role:

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.

What you’ll do:

• 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 and 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

What you bring to the team:

• 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
• Bonus points for experience operating in an air-gapped FedRAMP or DOD I/L environment

Our tech stack:

• Java, Python, Go, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Kargo, ArgoCD, LGTM, ELK