Sr. Engineering Manager - Core Platform

captivateiq; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

CaptivateIQ, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager for Core Platform to lead engineering on identity, job processing, and design systems. You will shape direction, prioritize a broad portfolio, and influence technical strategy while guiding a distributed team across roughly 8 hours of time-zone spread.

The role emphasizes asynchronous collaboration, psychological safety, and scalable platform foundations that power rapid product development for customers.

Qualifications

• Leads engineering teams to deliver complex platform solutions.
• Experience owning large, multi-team technical portfolios.
• Strong ability to balance technical direction with delivery priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering for Core Platform building blocks.
• Set direction and prioritize a complex portfolio.
• Influence technical strategy across the Foundation Pillar.
• Support distributed, async-first teams across multiple time zones.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Platform ownership

Async communication

Job description

About the Role

You'll lead engineering for some of CaptivateIQ's most important platform building blocks and use that leverage to support our journey into a multi-product company. Core Platform is the foundation the rest of our product runs on. As Senior Manager, Core Platform, you will lead a team of engineers who own our identity platform, customer job processing and design systems. These capabilities let product teams ship quickly and safely at scale, and they shape how customers experience the product every day. You will set direction, prioritize a complex portfolio, and influence technical strategy across the Foundation Pillar. You will also help define how a distributed team works across roughly 8 hours of time zone spread, with async-first habits and psychological safety at the center. If you like leading strong engineers on hard distributed-systems problems, we'd like to meet you.

Location: Preferred East Coast or Central US or Canada

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