Senior Manager, Engineering – Platform

🔥 14 hours ago

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Stord

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2019

💼 Consulting

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Food & Beverage • Healthcare

Stord is a company that provides cloud supply chain solutions for direct-to-consumer (DTC) and omnichannel brands, specializing in fulfillment, last-mile delivery, and inventory management. By integrating best-in-class software with physical logistics operations, Stord aims to enhance the consumer experience from pre-purchase to post-delivery. The company supports over $5 billion in commerce annually and offers services such as order management, shipment protection, and inventory planning to streamline supply chains and improve brand loyalty. Stord also serves a wide range of industries, including health & beauty, nutrition & supplements, and apparel & accessories.

📋 Description

• Own the complete people-management lifecycle for the Platform team, initially about five engineers and growing • Stay close to engineering work by reviewing designs and relevant pull requests and surfacing gaps early • Run planning, standups, and retrospectives • Report delivery, quality, risk, and resourcing to engineering leadership • Act as Platform product lead and own the roadmap • Define Platform products, customers, priorities, success measures, and adoption goals • Communicate Platform releases, roadmap, and usage across Engineering and leadership • Lead adoption of Platform products and features with product engineering leaders • Gather feedback from product engineering teams and incorporate it into the roadmap • Drive documentation, migration paths, and enablement materials • Lead weekly 1:1s, performance reviews, compensation recommendations, and promotion cases • Handle performance issues and difficult conversations • Lead the full engineering hiring lifecycle and develop future tech leads and managers • Own architectural direction and sequence platform work across quarters • Set standards for code review, testing, and release practices • Drive AI adoption and improve legacy team processes through AI enablement • Manage tooling, infrastructure, and contractor costs and flag budget risks • Own reliability through monitoring, incident response, root-cause follow-through, and on-call discipline • Represent Platform in cross-team planning, manage dependencies, and renegotiate scope when capacity is exceeded

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering management experience • Experience leading teams of 5+ engineers with predictable delivery and team development • 5+ years as a high-performing individual contributor engineer • Experience owning the roadmap of a platform, tooling, or shared service used by other engineering teams • Experience helping engineering teams adopt internal platforms or developer tooling • Depth in distributed systems and service architecture, including reliability, scalability, and system design trade-offs • First-hand experience handling underperformance, conflict, difficult exits, and performance management • Experience with the full hiring lifecycle: sourcing, interviewing, closing, and onboarding engineers • Repeatable process for assessing team and individual performance objectively • Evidence-based decision-making • Strong ownership and accountability • Clear communication with engineers, product managers, and executives • Delegation and developing team members to multiply impact • Ability to navigate ambiguity and build alignment without formal authority • Balanced judgment between innovation, quality, and delivery constraints • Understanding of AI coding tools and ability to guide AI-assisted development while maintaining quality and independent technical judgment • Strongly preferred: experience driving adoption of internal platforms or developer tooling across multiple engineering teams • Strongly preferred: production experience with Elixir or TypeScript, and appetite to become fluent in both • Strongly preferred: experience leading platform, infrastructure, or shared-services teams • Strongly preferred: experience scaling teams across multiple teams through rising scale and scope • Strongly preferred: experience operating systems through significant growth in load, usage, or complexity • Nice to have: event-driven architecture experience • Nice to have: incident response and post-incident improvement across multiple teams • Nice to have: AI-enabled workflow implementation experience

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