Senior Platform Engineering Lead — Core Services

Moon

Glendale (CA)

Hybrid

USD 270,000 - 330,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Moon is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for the Core Platform to lead a senior team responsible for the core platform including identity, tenancy, and payments APIs. You will drive architecture across authentication, multi-entity tenancy, and shared services while upholding engineering standards and design-system usage.

You will partner with the VP of Engineering and Principal Engineer to ensure reliable delivery, internal SLAs, and scalable APIs.

Qualifications

10+ years of engineering 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: payments, email, SMS, voice and communication services; client database.
Enforce engineering standards via code reviews; ensure design system usage via Storybook.
Own reliability on the critical path: availability, recovery, and database architecture and performance.
Run contract-first discipline with consuming teams: versioned APIs, deprecation, contract reviews.
Hire and develop a senior team; player-coach who still reads code.