Senior Platform Lead - Core Services & APIs

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

Job summary

Moon Glendale, California, is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Core Platform to lead the team building authentication, tenancy, entitlements, payments APIs, and shared services. You will enforce engineering standards and guide architecture for reliability and scale.

You will collaborate with VP of Engineering and Principal Engineer to ensure contract-first API practices, versioned contracts, and strong internal customer focus.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience including managing platform or infrastructure teams.
• Deep distributed systems, API design, and database experience; payments or fintech experience is 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, 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, deprecation, contract reviews.
• Hire and develop a senior team; player-coach who still reads code.

Skills

Distributed systems

APIs design

Payments/fintech

Platform management

Job description

Moon Glendale, California, is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Core Platform to lead the team building authentication, tenancy, entitlements, payments APIs, and shared services. You will enforce engineering standards and guide architecture for reliability and scale.

You will collaborate with VP of Engineering and Principal Engineer to ensure contract-first API practices, versioned contracts, and strong internal customer focus.