Engineering Manager, UI Platform

Menlo Ventures; New York (NY); On-site; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Menlo Ventures is seeking an experienced engineering leader for Claude.ai, responsible for owning critical platform infrastructure. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on developer experience and leadership.

This position emphasizes collaboration with various teams to ensure a high-quality platform that scales effectively while meeting product priorities. The salary for this role ranges from $405,000 to $485,000 USD annually.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience working on platforms.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership in high-growth environments.
• Expertise in modern web development stacks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the UI Platform team, focusing on reliability and performance.
• Own foundational systems that product teams depend on.
• Drive improvements to developer velocity and shipping features.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Leadership experience

Modern web development stacks (React, Next.js, TypeScript)

Developer experience passion

Reliability and performance expertise

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

CI/CD systems

Observability and monitoring systems

Job description

Overview

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

Claude.ai is Anthropic's flagship consumer product, spanning web, mobile, desktop, and browser extensions—and it's growing fast. We're looking for an engineering leader to own the foundational platform that powers all of these surfaces: the shared infrastructure, APIs, tooling, and systems that enable product teams to ship reliably, quickly, and with confidence.

In this role, you'll lead the team responsible for reliability, latency, developer velocity, and common components across Claude.ai's UI surfaces. Your work will directly determine how fast customer, partner, and product teams can innovate—and how stable their experiences are when they ship. This is a highly technical leadership role: you'll stay close to the code, drive architectural decisions, and build the systems that let others move faster.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the developer experience and platform foundations for one of the most rapidly evolving AI products in the world. You'll partner closely with product engineering teams, infrastructure, and leadership to ensure Claude.ai scales gracefully as we grow.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the UI Platform team, setting technical direction for reliability, performance, and developer experience across all Claude.ai surfaces
• Own the foundational systems that product teams depend on: shared components, build and deploy pipelines, observability, and performance infrastructure
• Drive improvements to developer velocity—reducing friction, improving tooling, and enabling teams to ship features faster and more safely
• Establish and maintain high standards for latency, reliability, and quality across the platform
• Partner closely with product engineering, infrastructure, and leadership to align platform investments with product priorities
• Create clarity and direction in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment where priorities shift as Claude.ai evolves
• Build a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement within your team

Qualifications

• Have 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent building platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure for consumer-facing products
• Have 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing and growing teams in high-growth environments
• Have deep expertise in modern web development stacks (React, Next.js, TypeScript)
• Are passionate about developer experience and have a track record of building tools and systems that make other engineers more productive
• Have strong opinions on reliability, observability, and performance—and know how to operationalize those opinions at scale
• Can balance technical depth with strategic thinking, staying hands‑on while also setting long-term direction
• Thrive in ambiguity and can create structure and clarity for your team when the path forward is not obvious
• Communicate effectively across functions and can build alignment with product, design, and infrastructure partners

Preferred Qualifications

• Building and scaling platforms for multiple surfaces (web, mobile, desktop, extensions) with shared infrastructure
• Performance optimization and latency reduction in consumer-facing applications
• CI/CD, build systems, and deployment automation at scale
• Observability and monitoring systems (metrics, logging, tracing)
• Working on AI/ML products or in rapidly evolving product environments

Annual Salary

$405,000—$485,000 USD

Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.