Staff Engineering Manager - Scale Global Collector Platform

Collectors

Santa Ana, Jersey City (CA, NJ)

Remote

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Collectors, based in Santa Ana, CA, seeks a Staff Software Engineering Manager to lead the Collectors Experience engineering team building public-facing web and mobile apps. You will mentor engineers, shape technical strategy, and partner with product, design, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, high-availability systems.

You should have 10+ years of software architecture experience, strong AWS expertise, and a track record of leading teams in distributed systems.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience architecting large-scale distributed systems.
  • Hands-on development in modern API design and scalable architectures.
  • 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams.
  • Experience with AWS technologies and cloud-native patterns.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor software engineering teams in a consumer-facing product.
  • Collaborate with Product and Design to translate requirements into technical solutions.
  • Oversee architecture decisions, code reviews, and release management.
  • Drive engineering best practices, agile methods, and documentation.
  • Address production issues and provide technical guidance.

Skills

AWS
Python
API Development
Distributed Systems
Leadership
Mentoring
Cloud Architecture
Terraform/CDK
Communication

Tools

AWS services (Lambda, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, API Gateway)
DynamoDB / PostgreSQL
Terraform
CDK / CloudFormation
React / Vue.js (nice to have)

Job description

Collectors, based in Santa Ana, CA, seeks a Staff Software Engineering Manager to lead the Collectors Experience engineering team building public-facing web and mobile apps. You will mentor engineers, shape technical strategy, and partner with product, design, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, high-availability systems.

You should have 10+ years of software architecture experience, strong AWS expertise, and a track record of leading teams in distributed systems.

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