Platform Engineering Manager — Scale, Reliability & Observability

usenourish; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Nourish is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead Platform Engineering, owning architecture for scalable, reliable infrastructure and enabling rapid product growth. You will drive cross-functional collaboration with security, IT, and product teams while mentoring engineers.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, architecture, and shaping a high-performing team in a fast-paced health-tech environment. NYC or SF familiarity is preferred, with strong support for exceptional candidates.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with modern full-stack technologies and 2+ years of hands-on engineering management experience.
• Have hired engineers and managed performance, promotions, and career development.
• Remain technical enough to pair program with your team and contribute directly when needed.
• Bring exceptional cross functional judgment: write a PRD, understand product bottlenecks, size opportunities, and progress without external blockers.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of 4-5 engineers with strong technical ownership.
• Coach engineers through regular feedback, career development, calibration, and performance management.
• Scale the team through recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
• Stay hands-on through architecture, pair programming, coding, code reviews, and on-call.
• Set the vision and roadmap for the team by collaborating with engineering leads, security, IT, and other cross-functional partners.
• Drive thoughtful decisions around system design, code quality, observability, reliability, and scalability.
• Establish effective team rituals, including sprint planning, OKR planning and reporting, quarterly planning, and retrospectives.
• Operate with urgency and sound judgment in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
• Set the technical direction for systems that support business-critical work across the engineering org.
• Report on platform health to leadership through clear metrics like uptime, incident response time, infrastructure cost, and time-to-production KPIs.
• Partner with IT and legal teams to maintain security and compliance controls.
• Build reliable, auditable systems that can safely scale through rapid growth and regulatory complexity.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Pair programming

Technical judgment

TypeScript/Node.js familiarity

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

PostgreSQL

AWS ECS

Terraform

AWS CDK

Job description

Nourish is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead Platform Engineering, owning architecture for scalable, reliable infrastructure and enabling rapid product growth. You will drive cross-functional collaboration with security, IT, and product teams while mentoring engineers.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, architecture, and shaping a high-performing team in a fast-paced health-tech environment. NYC or SF familiarity is preferred, with strong support for exceptional candidates.