Senior Engineering Manager

amplo; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

UPTO policy

401(k) with employer match

Medical, vision, dental, disability, and life benefits

Job summary

amplo is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to oversee engineering excellence and team health, preferably in NYC. Candidates should have 8+ years of engineering experience, including strong team management and operational excellence skills. The role focuses on bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring a healthy team culture.

Benefits include a competitive salary range of $225,000 - $275,000, 13 paid company holidays, and comprehensive health benefits including a wellness stipend.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience including 4+ years managing engineers in a SaaS environment.
• Proven ability to translate between highly technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience operating in compliance-bound environments (SOC2 or similar).

Responsibilities

• Establish and drive engineering excellence across teams.
• Bridge the gap between technical details and business context.
• Lead and develop a team of ~10 engineers.

Skills

Engineering experience

Team management

Operational excellence

Technical foundation in backend/data engineering

Strong communication skills

Experience in compliance-bound environments

Job description

Title: Sr. Engineering Manager

Reports To: CTO

Location: Remote (NYC Strongly Preferred)

About Us

We’ve built the system of record for the $200+ billion insurance brokerage and agency market — an industry that forms the backbone of our modern economy. We serve a strong roster of customers including industry leaders like USAA and many others. WR Berkley, a Fortune 500 insurance holding company, led our Series B and provides invaluable strategic partnership as we reshape the insurance technology landscape.

About the Role

amplo is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to own engineering excellence, delivery, team health, and technical quality across the amplo platform. This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of people, process, and technology – the bridge between execution, strategy, and the daily technical work that ships product customers rely on.

You’ll carry scope across multiple teams, reporting directly to the CTO and will partner closely with Product, CX, and the GMT team to translate company priorities into predictable, high-quality delivery.

This is the right role for you if you see strong engineering management as a force multiplier – that the right norms and rituals can make the difference between a team that occasionally ships and one that delivers consistently. Experience with AI development workflows and someone who is interested in how AI is reshaping engineering teams work will set you apart.

What You’ll Do

Establish and drive engineering excellence: Own the operational baseline for how amplo’s engineering team works. Define the metrics, audit where the team is today, and build a clear path to improve how software gets built.

Bridge the Technical and the Non-Technical Serve as the translation layer between engineering reality and business context. Help engineers see the forest through the trees — connecting their day-to-day work to customer impact and company priorities. Equally, help non-technical stakeholders understand what's actually hard, what's at risk, and what tradeoffs are on the table.

Lead and Develop the Engineering Team: Directly manage a team of ~10 engineers. Build a team culture that moves through storming and norming toward genuinely high performance. Invest in the people, not just the output.

Own Compliance and Reliability Operate within SOC 2 Type 2 controls and partner with compliance on evidence and audits. Ensure teams meet data‑handling, access, and audit‑trail requirements as a matter of standard practice — not a sprint scramble before an audit.

What You’ll Need

• 8+ years of engineering experience including 4+ Years managing engineers in a SaaS environment.

• An operational excellence skillset – you've built the systems, rituals, and metrics that make engineering teams predictably great.

• Strong technical foundation with depth in backend and/or data engineering; you can go deep enough to earn credibility with the team and surface the right tradeoffs.

• Proven ability to translate between the highly technical and the non-technical with engineers, customers, and executives.

• Track record of building team culture and operating as an effective people manager.

• Experience operating in compliance-bound environments (SOC2 or similar).

• Strong communication skills and comfortable in a highly async remote‑first environment.

Nice to Have

• Insurtech or other highly regulated industry background.

• Experience building and/or shipping AI‑powered products.

• Familiarity with building and scaling engineering workflows using AI tooling.

• Based in NYC strongly preferred but not required.

What Success Looks Like

In your first 6-12 months the following should be true:

• Team health and retention signals are strong and improving across all reporting teams.

• Delivery cadence and predictability are consistent.

• Reliability and incident posture reflect a platform teams can stand behind.

• Specific platform‑level milestones are hit: A meaningful capability shipped, a compliance milestone reached, and a systemic reliability problem solved.

What We Offer

• An UPTO policy and 13 paid company holidays

• A whole person approach to taking care of you with medical, vision, dental, disability, and life benefits + annual wellness stipend

• 401(k) with employer match + safe harbor vesting

The base salary range for this position is $225,000 - $275,000 annually. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on factors including the candidate’s relevant experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location. amplo is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

amplo participates in E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all new hires. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.e-verify.gov.