Hands-on AI Platform Engineering Manager

Plata Card

United States

Remote

USD 170,000 - 250,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support
Flexible work
Healthcare coverage
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Wellness Budget
Vacation policy

Job summary

Plata Card seeks a hands-on Engineering Manager for AI Platform, the team building internal AI platforms used across the company. You will lead a cross-functional engineering team, own end-to-end delivery, and work with Product, Data, and AI teams on scope, priorities, and the platform roadmap.

This is a hands-on role: beyond people management, you will actively shape the architecture and make technical decisions within the team to build scalable backend services and APIs for broad adoption

Qualifications

  • Leadership experience managing engineering teams.
  • Experience leading AI/ML or data-driven engineering initiatives.
  • Hands-on development experience to validate technical decisions.
  • Experience shipping AI-powered products or services to production.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into technical solutions and priorities.
  • Strong cross-team communication with Product, Data and business stakeholders.
  • English proficiency at B1 level or higher.

Responsibilities

  • Lead hiring, planning, task decomposition, process improvements, and cross-team collaboration.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of internal AI platforms from concept to production.
  • Turn recurring product needs into reusable platform capabilities, not one-off solutions.
  • Ensure strong team performance and on-time delivery aligned with goals.
  • Collaborate with Product, Data, and AI teams as well as platform users to drive adoption.
  • Shape architecture, design, and implementation of scalable backend services and APIs.

Skills

Engineering management
AI/ML leadership
Hands-on coding
Architecture decisions
Cross-functional collaboration
Hiring & team development

Job description

Plata Card seeks a hands-on Engineering Manager for AI Platform, the team building internal AI platforms used across the company. You will lead a cross-functional engineering team, own end-to-end delivery, and work with Product, Data, and AI teams on scope, priorities, and the platform roadmap.

This is a hands-on role: beyond people management, you will actively shape the architecture and make technical decisions within the team to build scalable backend services and APIs for broad adoption

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