Head of Core Infra Engineering

Recruiting from Scratch; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity package

Comprehensive benefits

401(k) with employer matching

Commuter benefits

Catered meals in office

Hybrid work in NYC

Job summary

Recruiting from Scratch represents a rapidly growing infrastructure company building technology that helps detect fraud, enforce policies, and scale trust across major digital platforms. Their Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure, leads the foundational systems powering workflow orchestration, AI agents, platform reliability, and large-scale data processing.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on building high-performing teams while staying technically engaged, with the NYC hybrid office

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.
• 4+ years of engineering management experience within startup environments.
• Proven experience leading platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering teams.
• Strong technical background with experience reviewing architecture and contributing to production code.
• Experience managing high-throughput, data-intensive platforms, workflow engines, automation systems, or AI-powered infrastructure.
• Demonstrated success building high-performing engineering teams with execution, ownership, and operational discipline.
• Experience setting technical roadmaps in rapidly changing environments.
• Familiarity with modern AI-assisted development tools and how they improve engineering productivity.
• Strong written and verbal communication across technical and customer-facing organizations.
• Passion for coaching engineers and enabling autonomous teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing infrastructure engineering team responsible for core platform services and shared systems.
• Define team priorities, roadmaps, and execution plans aligned with business goals and engineering strategy.
• Coach engineers through regular feedback, career development, and technical mentorship.
• Improve engineering execution by establishing clear ownership, reducing operational friction, and raising delivery quality.
• Build a culture of shared ownership that minimizes reliance on individual contributors and improves team resilience.
• Partner with Product, Customer Success, Go-to-Market, and other engineering teams to prioritize work and deliver customer impact.
• Drive operational excellence by establishing reliability goals, improving observability, and addressing technical debt.
• Lead architecture discussions and contribute to design and implementation when appropriate.
• Help define engineering metrics, processes, and best practices as the organization scales.
• Influence future structure and leadership of the engineering organization with senior leadership.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering management

Team leadership

Architecture

Observability

AI infrastructure

Job description

Recruiting from Scratch represents a rapidly growing infrastructure company building technology that helps detect fraud, enforce policies, and scale trust across major digital platforms. Their Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure, leads the foundational systems powering workflow orchestration, AI agents, platform reliability, and large-scale data processing.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on building high-performing teams while staying technically engaged, with the NYC hybrid office