Engineering Manager, API Platform — Hybrid & High-Scale

Safe-Guard Products International; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) Plan with Company Match

Paid Holidays and Vacation

Tuition Reimbursement

Wellness Programs

Job summary

Safe-Guard Products International in Atlanta is seeking an Engineering Manager for the API Platform to lead the API engineering team and own the platform roadmap. You will drive reliability, scalability, and high-throughput design across microservices on AWS, while maintaining strong coding and collaboration with product and architecture.

You will hire, mentor, and grow engineers, establish SLOs/SLAs, and foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement in a hybrid work

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in an engineering leadership role.
• Deep working knowledge of Java and Spring Boot; ability to guide architectural decisions and review code credibly.
• RESTful API design, microservices architecture, and API lifecycle governance at scale.
• AWS cloud-native development — hands‑on with ECS Fargate, API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, S3, and related services.
• Experience leading teams in Agile/Scrum environments with a bias toward delivery, learning, and continuous iteration.

Responsibilities

• Own the API platform roadmap — partner with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to translate company objectives into a scalable, high-throughput technical strategy.
• Ensure platform reliability and performance at scale — oversee an API stack operating at scale, where downtime or degradation has direct bottom-line impact.
• Drive technical excellence in architecture, design, and delivery — guide decisions on microservices, API design, cloud-native patterns, and data strategies that support mission-critical throughput on AWS.
• Champion a high-pressure, high-ownership engineering culture — establish SLOs/SLAs, observability practices, and incident response standards that reflect the criticality of the platform.
• Grow and develop your team — invest in people through coaching, clear expectations, stretch assignments, and a feedback culture that rewards growth and continuous improvement.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

RESTful API design

Microservices architecture

AWS cloud-native

Observability (Datadog/Splunk)

Distributed systems

SLOs/SLAs

Leadership / mentoring

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Kafka

SQS

EventBridge

Docker

OpenAPI/Swagger

Terraform

Job description

Safe-Guard Products International in Atlanta is seeking an Engineering Manager for the API Platform to lead the API engineering team and own the platform roadmap. You will drive reliability, scalability, and high-throughput design across microservices on AWS, while maintaining strong coding and collaboration with product and architecture.

You will hire, mentor, and grow engineers, establish SLOs/SLAs, and foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement in a hybrid work