Senior Engineering Manager, Core Services - (Remote - US)

About Jobgether

Jobgether is a Talent Matching Platform that partners with companies worldwide to efficiently connect top talent with the right opportunities through AI-driven job matching.

One of our companies is currently looking for a Senior Engineering Manager, Core Services in the United States.

In this role, you’ll lead a fully remote engineering team focused on building and optimizing backend core services that enable high-scale, high-performance product delivery. You’ll work cross-functionally with other engineering leaders and product teams to define roadmaps, guide architecture, and implement internal developer tools and systems. This role blends leadership, strategy, and occasional hands-on development to continuously improve scalability, observability, and the overall developer experience. You’ll play a key role in setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and evolving engineering culture across the organization.

Accountabilities:

• Define the roadmap, priorities, and execution plan for core services in collaboration with engineering and product stakeholders
• Develop and maintain architectural components such as internal SDKs, eventing systems, and backend patterns for performance and resiliency
• Enable faster and more autonomous feature delivery by refactoring and optimizing backend systems, and enforcing best practices
• Lead a distributed team with empathy and strategic vision, providing mentoring and growth opportunities
• Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams to manage APIs handling billions of requests daily
• Foster engineering excellence by promoting responsible practices and improving system observability and developer workflows
• Participate in occasional on-call rotation and help ensure high system availability and reliability

• Proven experience in people management, with at least 5 years of technical leadership in engineering teams
• Background in building large-scale, distributed, and secure backend systems
• Hands-on knowledge of backend development, ideally in TypeScript/Node.js
• Familiarity with AWS services and architectural best practices for cloud scalability, performance, and security
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to gather feedback and align stakeholders
• Demonstrated customer empathy for both internal developers and end users
• Ability to guide technical decisions while empowering team members toward ownership and autonomy

• Remote-first work environment (US-based, with some state exclusions)
• Competitive salary range: $210,000 to $240,000 plus incentive, equity, and full benefits
• Unlimited vacation policy
• $4,000 technology stipend every two years
• $500 annual WFH stipend
• $500 annual learning stipend
• Monthly wellness, lifestyle, and development stipends
• Full health coverage for employees and dependents (medical, dental, vision, FSA, HRA, HSA)
• Paid parental leave (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents, 12 weeks for non-birthing)
• 401(k) with immediate company match
• Life and disability insurance plans
• Family building benefits through Progyny
• Employee discount across a wide family of major sports and lifestyle brands

Jobgether Hiring Process Disclaimer

This job is posted on behalf of one of our partner companies. If you choose to apply, your application will go through our AI-powered 3-step screening process, where we automatically select the 5 best candidates.

Our AI thoroughly analyzes every line of your CV and LinkedIn profile to assess your fit for the role, evaluating each experience in detail. When needed, our team may also conduct a manual review to ensure only the most relevant candidates are considered.

Our process is fair, unbiased, and based solely on qualifications and relevance to the job. Only the best-matching candidates will be selected for the next round.

If you are among the top 5 candidates, you will be notified within 7 days.
If you do not receive feedback after 7 days, it means you were not selected. However, if you wish, we may consider your profile for other similar opportunities that better match your experience.

Thank you for your interest!

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