Engineering Manager, Orchestration (Remote)

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 152,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical benefits

Financial benefits including bonuses

Opportunities for professional growth

Flexible work environment

High executive visibility and cross-组织

Job summary

Ladders is seeking an Engineering Manager, Orchestration (Remote) to join a leading Enterprise Technology team. You will lead a founding engineering group building the orchestration layer powering event-driven, real-time decisioning at scale, partnering with senior stakeholders to shape architecture, deliver milestones, and ensure the platform is reliable, observable, and operationally strong.

The role blends technical leadership with hands-on execution, making you a player-coach who guides

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a management role.
• Player-coach leadership style, balancing technical guidance with hands-on contributions
• Expertise in designing and operating large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Strong systems thinking with a focus on event-driven, stateful, real-time decisioning
• Experience with backend services in a cloud environment, specifically Google Cloud Platform
• Proficient in microservice architectures and inter-service communication patterns
• Strong foundation in Python; familiarity with Elixir is a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a founding team of engineers supporting the orchestration platform
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to define architecture and project milestones
• Drive initiatives from concept to delivery while ensuring high-quality outputs
• Oversee development of a scalable, event-driven messaging system
• Provide technical leadership on complex distributed decisioning challenges
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of the orchestration layer
• Ensure operational excellence through observability and incident response practices

Skills

Software engineering

Player-coach leadership

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Backend cloud services

Microservices

Python

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

For our client, we are seeking a Engineering Manager, Orchestration (Remote) to join the team of a leader in the Enterprise Technology space. This role will lead a founding engineering team responsible for building the orchestration layer that powers event-driven, real-time decisioning at scale. You will partner closely with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams to shape architecture, deliver milestones, and ensure the platform is reliable, observable, and operationally strong. The position blends technical leadership with hands-on execution, making it ideal for a player-coach who can guide engineers while contributing to complex distributed systems work.

Location: Remote

Compensation: $152,000 – $200,000 annually

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a founding team of engineers supporting the orchestration platform
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to define architecture and project milestones
• Drive initiatives from concept to delivery while ensuring high-quality outputs
• Oversee development of a scalable, event-driven messaging system
• Provide technical leadership on complex distributed decisioning challenges
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of the orchestration layer
• Ensure operational excellence through observability and incident response practices

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a management role
• Player-coach leadership style, balancing technical guidance with hands-on contributions
• Expertise in designing and operating large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Strong systems thinking with a focus on event-driven, stateful, real-time decisioning
• Experience with backend services in a cloud environment, specifically Google Cloud Platform
• Proficient in microservice architectures and inter-service communication patterns
• Strong foundation in Python; familiarity with Elixir is a plus

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Financial benefits including bonuses
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Flexible work environment
• High executive visibility and influence in strategic engineering initiatives

Our client is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification—your background could be exactly what this team needs.