Platform Lead, Core Services and APIs

Moon Innovation Technologies; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 270,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

Moon Innovation Technologies is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Moon's core platform, including identity, tenancy, entitlements, payments APIs, and shared services. You will guide platform engineering standards and drive reliability in a fast-growing environment.

Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will mentor a senior team and partner with Principal Engineers on contracts, reliability, and data architecture to enable small teams to ship continuously without conflicts.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including managing platform or infrastructure teams.
• Deep distributed systems, API design, and database experience; payments or fintech experience a strong plus.
• Has run platform-as-product: internal customers, SLAs, versioned contracts.
• Sets a high bar for talent and for standards; fast pace with discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of core services: identity, tenancy, entitlements, payments and financing APIs, and messaging buses.
• Implement and operate the common shared services all modules build on: payments, email, SMS, voice and communication services, client database.
• Enforce engineering standards via code reviews across the application, including proper use of the design system via Storybook.
• Own reliability on the critical path: availability, recovery, and database architecture and performance.
• Run contract-first discipline with consuming teams: versioned APIs, clean deprecation, fast and rigorous contract reviews.
• Hire and develop a senior team; player-coach - you still read code.

Skills

Distributed systems

API design

Platform management

Payments/Fintech

Job description

Moon Innovation Technologies is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Moon's core platform, including identity, tenancy, entitlements, payments APIs, and shared services. You will guide platform engineering standards and drive reliability in a fast-growing environment.

Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will mentor a senior team and partner with Principal Engineers on contracts, reliability, and data architecture to enable small teams to ship continuously without conflicts.