Remote Senior Engineering Manager for API Platform

GameChanger; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote US option

Unlimited vacation

Volunteer time

WFH stipend

Snack stipend

Full health benefits

Life insurance

Disability leave

401K with company match

Wellbeing platform

Parental leave

DICK’S discount

Job summary

GameChanger is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a squad responsible for scaling new products and a partner-facing platform. You will partner with Product, Design, BD and senior engineers to shape strategy, roadmaps, and operating models, coordinating across teams and ensuring scalable, secure API delivery.

You will drive technical excellence, coach engineers, and grow leaders while balancing rapid learning with durable platform investments in a remote-first, NYC-based company.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leadership roles.
• Proven ability to lead engineering teams and develop engineers at multiple levels.
• Experience shaping multi-quarter strategy and balancing delivery with health of the tech org.
• Experience building or operating APIs, developer platforms, or distributed backend systems.
• Strong technical judgment and depth in backend/API design with reliability in mind.
• Ability to influence across engineering, product, business and exec stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering squad and shape group direction.
• Partner with Product, Design, BD and senior tech leaders to define strategy, roadmap, and outcomes.
• Translate needs into clear priorities, balancing rapid delivery with durable platform investment.
• Coordinate work across teams, aligning ownership and sequencing across systems for partner experience.
• Anticipate dependencies and risks; establish mechanisms to resolve them early.
• Maintain a high bar for engineering craft, APIs, auth, versioning, docs, and observability.

Skills

Senior engineering leadership

API design & platforms

Backend systems expertise

Cross-team collaboration

Stakeholder management

Mentoring engineers

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

AWS

Redis

PostgreSQL

Job description

GameChanger is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a squad responsible for scaling new products and a partner-facing platform. You will partner with Product, Design, BD and senior engineers to shape strategy, roadmaps, and operating models, coordinating across teams and ensuring scalable, secure API delivery.

You will drive technical excellence, coach engineers, and grow leaders while balancing rapid learning with durable platform investments in a remote-first, NYC-based company.