Engineering Manager leading backend services, APIs, and distributed systems for Slice’s restaurant technology platform. Building high - performing teams that deliver measurable value to independent restaurants.
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- Engineering Manager leading Seesaw’s Core Systems team. Improving reliable, scalable platforms that enable education technology product teams to build faster.
Responsibilities
- Manage, coach, and develop a team of software engineers working on critical shared systems
- Build a high-performing team with clear ownership, technical quality, collaboration, and delivery expectations
- Partner with engineering leadership on hiring, organizational planning, and team capabilities
- Lead foundational systems supporting Seesaw products and engineering organization
- Establish architectural direction and make technical tradeoffs with senior and staff engineers
- Ensure systems support reliability, scalability, security, maintainability, and operational simplicity
- Balance existing-system improvements with longer-term architecture and platform investments
- Reduce unnecessary complexity, operational burden, and recurring technical debt
- Translate technical and business goals into executable engineering plans and incremental milestones
- Establish ownership, priorities, success measures, and decision points
- Identify execution risks and resolve cross-team dependencies and blockers
- Build APIs, services, tools, and platform capabilities for product engineering teams
- Partner with product engineering teams to identify pain points and shared solutions
- Establish boundaries between platform and product-specific functionality
- Use observability, incident management, capacity planning, and production data to improve reliability
- Lead incident reviews and address systemic issues
- Make pragmatic reliability and resilience decisions based on customer and business impact
Requirements
- Experience managing software engineering teams responsible for complex production systems
- Strong software engineering background and technical depth to participate meaningfully in architecture and system-design discussions
- Experience designing, operating, or leading teams responsible for distributed systems, backend services, shared platforms, or similarly foundational technology
- Track record of delivering significant technical initiatives involving multiple systems or engineering teams
- Strong judgment about architectural investment versus simpler solutions
- Experience building systems where reliability, scalability, security, and operational quality matter
- Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong people-management skills, including coaching experienced engineers and creating clear accountability without micromanagement
- Comfort operating amid ambiguity and meaningful technical tradeoffs
- E-Verify participation may require applicable U.S. work authorization
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