Engineering Manager, Platform

Genius AI; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive health insurance

Flexible PTO

In-office lunch NYC/SF

Wellhub wellness platform

Professional development stipend

5-year performance stipend

401k from day 1

Dependent Care FSA

Parental leave

Fertility and adoption benefits

Job summary

Genius AI is seeking an Engineering Manager for Platform teams who will own end-to-end delivery, quality, and architectural decisions that scale our core systems used by 120,000+ service businesses. You’ll partner with Product and Design, drive AI tooling adoption, and lead a high-growth engineering organization in a hybrid NYC/SF setup.

You will mentor engineers, grow the team, and set technical direction while minimizing debt.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with leadership exposure.
• Experience managing a software team at a high-growth tech company.
• Proficient with AI-powered tooling and systems.
• Strong architectural judgment and technical decision-making.
• Customer-centric mindset aligning engineering to business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery and quality for platform teams.
• Lead tier-zero systems, identity, permissions, session management, and messaging infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Product and Design from strategy to production.
• Support team growth and hiring, maintaining high team health.
• Balance shipping speed with reducing technical debt and risk.

Skills

Software engineering

People management

AI tooling

System architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Hiring engineers

Mentoring

Job description

About Genius AI

Genius AI is building technology to help local businesses run themselves. Genius AI products do the admin work that keeps practitioners from the work they love and the people they serve. From GlossGenius to Reception, its products work 24/7 on busywork like booking, marketing, client management, finances, staff and inventory management, and more.

Genius AI technology has saved businesses 106M in admin hours, earned them $2.0B in additional revenue, and facilitated more than 624M client touch points.

About the Role

Platform teams at Genius AI build the shared systems, services, and tooling that every product team relies on to build, ship, and scale with confidence. That leverage is what lets Genius AI's core product run as the daily operating system for 120,000+ service businesses. The platform is expanding, the agentic product is active and developing, and the standards for execution are increasing accordingly. As an Engineering Manager of a Platform team, you'll own end-to-end responsibility for engineering quality, team health, and the outcomes your team drives for the businesses we serve. This is a focused ownership role leading tier-zero systems, identity, permissions, session management, and messaging infrastructure, that every product on the platform depends on. You'll partner directly with Product and Design leaders across the teams that rely on your systems to be great.

You must be commutable to our NYC headquarters or SF office and will operate in a hybrid environment. We default to being in-office 3-4 days per week with required attendance on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

What You’ll Do

• Own execution for your team end-to-end: delivery, quality bar, scope trade-offs, and the decisions that get things shipped without accumulating technical debt
• Embed AI tooling into how your team builds as a default, not a suggestion, identifying where it accelerates development cycles, improves code quality, and removes bottlenecks that previously required human intervention
• Architect the layer of AI-powered systems and tooling that makes your team disproportionately productive, not just feature-shipping, but building the automation that multiplies output
• Partner with Product and Design from early strategy through production, bringing engineering perspective into the room before decisions are made
• Contribute to technical direction for your area: surface platform needs and scaling challenges early, and help your team make good architectural calls
• Develop your team: invest in its growth, stretch the high-potential, and build a team where people get better because of working there
• Partner with recruiting to hire strong engineers, hold a high bar on every candidate, and build a team culture that retains them

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years managing a software engineering team at a high-growth technology company
• Fundamentally changed how you build software because of AI: you use it to architect, debug, write, and review code, and you have a clear point of view on where it accelerates your team's output versus where judgment still needs to be human
• Make decisions and move: you don't wait for full information, you set a direction, ship something, and adjust based on what you learn
• Strong enough technical judgment to earn the trust of your team, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and give meaningful input on what gets built and how
• Track record of developing engineers: you've invested in people's growth and can point to what they went on to do
• Customer-centric instincts: you connect engineering decisions to outcomes for the service businesses we serve, not just to technical correctness
• Comfortable working in close collaboration with Product and Design to define what gets built, not just how

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive health & dental insurance options, effective on your first day of employment
• Flexible PTO
• In-office lunch twice per week for NYC and SF employees, plus late night dinner stipends
• Access to Wellhub, a corporate wellness platform with discounted gym memberships, fitness classes, and mental health resources
• Annual stipend for professional development and continued learning
• High performers at 5 years receive a generous stipend to use however you recharge best
• 401k benefit: employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
• Dependent Care FSA
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot and Kindbody

At Genius AI, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. Genius AI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affliative Action Employer.

Agency Submissions
If a resume or applicant is submitted to Genius AI by a third party without a signed search agreement in place, it will become the property of Genius AI and no fee will be paid, irrespective of whether the candidate is hired.

Genius AI may use automated tools, including artificial intelligence and machine learning systems (AI Tools), to assist in evaluating applicants’ qualifications and fitness for the position. These AI Tools may be used alongside human review during one or more stages of the recruiting process, including application screening, skills assessments, and interviewing. No final hiring decision will be made solely by AI Tools without human oversight.