Platform Engineering Manager - AI-Driven, Scalable Backend

Deciml; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Deciml seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a frontline team within its Platform pillar. You will balance people leadership with hands-on architecture, implementation, and debugging, ensuring reliable, secure, and scalable platform work.

You will develop engineers, own delivery for production services, and collaborate across product, security, and other engineering groups. A hands-on, AI-forward, results-driven mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years direct engineering people management with hiring, development, and performance responsibilities.
• Directly leading around 6+ engineers with ownership of performance reviews.
• Hands-on M1 or tech-lead manager profile with frontline remit exposure.
• Experience in modern backend services, distributed systems, and platform infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Guide architecture, system design, and tradeoffs while debugging issues.
• Own delivery of production services and platforms with measurable reliability and security benefits.
• Use AI-assisted development thoughtfully with independent validation of code and tests.
• Create clarity from ambiguity and make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions in partnership with product and security.

Skills

People management

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Backend architecture

AI-assisted development

Security mindset

Performance reviews

Job description

Deciml seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a frontline team within its Platform pillar. You will balance people leadership with hands-on architecture, implementation, and debugging, ensuring reliable, secure, and scalable platform work.

You will develop engineers, own delivery for production services, and collaborate across product, security, and other engineering groups. A hands-on, AI-forward, results-driven mindset is essential.