Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

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🌐 United States, United Kingdom, +1 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote

💵 $181.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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GiveDirectly

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2009

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $1M Grant on 2018-03

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

GiveDirectly is a non-profit organization dedicated to alleviating poverty by providing direct cash transfers to individuals in need around the world. With a mission to help people living on less than $2. 15 per day, GiveDirectly empowers recipients to make their own financial decisions by delivering unconditional cash directly to them, leveraging mobile money technology. Their innovative approach has led to broad recognition and has been studied in numerous research projects. By bypassing traditional aid mechanisms, GiveDirectly aims to efficiently and scalably transform lives, offering targeted assistance in regions such as Bangladesh, Kenya, and the United States, among others.

📋 Description

• Own one domain of GiveDirectly’s cash delivery platform: payments, core platform, or data collection • Directly manage a team growing to 5–7 senior engineers, including 1:1s, goal setting, feedback, career development, performance management, recruiting, and onboarding • Own domain technical outcomes, including delivery, reliability, and major technical bets • Partner with product on roadmap, feature development, technical debt, infrastructure investments, and delivery velocity • Drive operational excellence across on-call, incident response, code quality, testing, AI, and deployment practices • Protect and scale engineering culture through open debate, product ownership, continuous improvement, and strong engineering foundations • Represent the team with stakeholders and leadership, translating technical realities into business decisions and vice versa • Review architecture and designs, set the technical quality bar, and guide sound trade-offs without becoming a bottleneck • Collaborate with field and partner teams to improve product-development practices and support cash delivery at scale • Report to the VP of Technology

🎯 Requirements

• Must be based in an eligible country on the specified country list • Must overlap with East Africa Time and US Eastern Time (8am–6pm) by at least 3 hours • Must be able to travel approximately 3–4 times per year to a country of operation • English language requirement • 3+ years managing software engineers through full delivery cycles • 8+ years of overall industry experience building production software • Strong backend foundation, including databases, cloud services, and APIs • Demonstrated ability to recruit, coach, develop, and retain engineers • Experience building and retaining talent-dense, inclusive teams during high growth • Track record of building strong engineering culture, including candid debate, product ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering craft/tooling, including agentic engineering • Ability to create clarity in ambiguity, prioritize focus, and enable senior teams to work autonomously • Strong technical judgment and experience pressure-testing architecture decisions and weighing technical and non-technical tradeoffs • Experience partnering successfully with non-technical stakeholders and leaders • Alignment with GiveDirectly Values and demonstrated emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual benefits stipend: $21,393 in the United States, £2,760 in the United Kingdom, or $8,453 in Kenya • 15% bonus at target performance, with potential for upside • Fully remote work • Flexible schedule, provided there is sufficient overlap with the team • Professional growth opportunities • Team retreats or field visits approximately 3–4 times per year