Senior Platform Engineering Leader — Scale and Deliver

Prudentia Sciences; Boston; Hybrid; PHP 11,314,000 - 16,342,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudentia Sciences seeks a Senior Manager, Engineering to build and lead the engineering organization behind our core platform as we scale. Reporting to the CTO, you’ll own platform engineering end to end, guide architecture, and grow a hands-on team of engineers in collaboration with AI and Product leads.

You’ll set technical direction, ensure code quality, and partner with customers and domain experts to translate scientific workflows into scalable software that our deal teams rely on daily.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, including experience building modern web applications end-to-end. AWS experience is a necessity.
• 3+ years leading or managing engineering teams, ideally at a startup or high-growth environment, with a track record of hiring and developing engineers.
• Experience owning architecture for complex, data-driven applications that integrate with APIs, asynchronous job systems, or machine learning backends.
• Strong command of frontend architecture, state management, and visualization frameworks (e.g., React Query, Redux, D3, Plotly) as well as backend/API engineering (RESTful or GraphQL APIs, authentication/authorization).

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and grow the engineering team; set a high bar for craft as the team scales.
• Establish engineering processes (planning, code review, on-call, incident response) suitable for a fast-moving startup.
• Mentor engineers and define clear growth paths within the team.
• Represent engineering in planning with Head of AI and Head of Product, translating business priorities into a technical roadmap.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

AWS

Team leadership

Software architecture

Frontend architecture

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS or related field

Tools

React

Redux

D3

Plotly

REST/GraphQL APIs

CI/CD

Job description

Prudentia Sciences seeks a Senior Manager, Engineering to build and lead the engineering organization behind our core platform as we scale. Reporting to the CTO, you’ll own platform engineering end to end, guide architecture, and grow a hands-on team of engineers in collaboration with AI and Product leads.

You’ll set technical direction, ensure code quality, and partner with customers and domain experts to translate scientific workflows into scalable software that our deal teams rely on daily.