Senior Engineering Manager, Platform & IAM (Distributed Teams)

CaptivateIQ, Inc.; Town of Poland (NY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

CaptivateIQ is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Core Platform and Integrations & IAM teams, shaping the architecture of our event-driven, API-based infrastructure. You will partner with Product and Design to define roadmaps and drive delivery across Europe and the US, while fostering a culture of trust and technical excellence.

You will coach senior engineers, own portfolio outcomes, and set architectural guardrails, ensuring security and reliability at scale in a remote-first

Qualifications

• Excellent leadership and people-management capabilities.
• Strong product sense with focus on delivering high-quality, scalable SaaS platforms.
• Ability to guide senior engineers and staff in architecture decisions.
• Strategic thinker with horizon of 6-12 months and portfolio management.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication, especially in remote-first environments.
• Experience in hiring and developing senior technical talent, nurturing growth.
• Ownership mindset with collaborative and humble learning approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead, inspire, and grow multiple distributed software engineering teams, fostering a culture of high trust and psychological safety.
• Develop engineering talent through coaching, mentorship, and performance management, with a focus on growing senior and staff-level engineers.
• Own the end-to-end delivery and operational excellence of your teams' portfolio, ensuring critical user-facing systems are reliable and secure at scale.
• Partner with Product, Design, and other cross-functional leaders to set a clear vision, prioritize roadmaps, and align a long-term strategy that optimizes for the entire organization.
• Provide technical leadership and direction by setting architectural guardrails and guiding major technical decisions without being a direct code contributor.
• Establish and uphold rigorous engineering standards, including SLAs/SLOs, security best practices, and QA processes to accelerate delivery and improve product health.
• Champion inclusive, async-first practices to ensure your teams, distributed across an ~8-hour time zone spread, can collaborate effectively.

Job description

CaptivateIQ is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Core Platform and Integrations & IAM teams, shaping the architecture of our event-driven, API-based infrastructure. You will partner with Product and Design to define roadmaps and drive delivery across Europe and the US, while fostering a culture of trust and technical excellence.

You will coach senior engineers, own portfolio outcomes, and set architectural guardrails, ensuring security and reliability at scale in a remote-first