Platform Engineering Lead — Hybrid (Plano, TX)

Cheil; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Cheil USA in Plano, Texas is hiring a Platform Engineering Manager to lead our platform engineering team that owns our core web stack and the systems that scale with a growing user base. You will split time between guiding the team and contributing directly to the codebase.

You will own reliability, performance, and scalability of core services, set engineering standards, on-call practices, and drive a healthy delivery cadence while planning capacity for future growth.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering with 2+ years managing engineers
• Deep experience with a modern web stack (e.g. TypeScript/Node or Python, relational and NoSQL databases, REST/GraphQL APIs, cloud infrastructure)
• Experience scaling systems through meaningful growth in traffic and data
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, observability, and security
• A calm, structured approach to prioritization and incident management
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in agency, marketing technology, e-commerce, or consumer-facing web environments a plus
• Able to work in a hybrid office environment at the Plano, Texas location: Tuesdays and Thursdays in office with Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays remote optional

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend and full-stack engineers
• Stay hands-on with architecture, code review, and critical-path development
• Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of our core web services and data layer
• Establish engineering standards, on-call practices, and a healthy delivery cadence
• Plan capacity and architecture for systems supporting significantly larger user bases

Skills

Tech leadership

Backend development

Web stack

TypeScript/Node

Python

REST/GraphQL

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Observability

Incident management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

GraphQL

REST APIs

Cloud infrastructure

Observability tools

Job description

Cheil USA in Plano, Texas is hiring a Platform Engineering Manager to lead our platform engineering team that owns our core web stack and the systems that scale with a growing user base. You will split time between guiding the team and contributing directly to the codebase.

You will own reliability, performance, and scalability of core services, set engineering standards, on-call practices, and drive a healthy delivery cadence while planning capacity for future growth.