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Engineering Manager, Platform Team at Twenty | LAYIQ

Lead and develop a cross-disciplinary team of engineers spanning frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
Own the technical roadmap; partner with the Product Manager on the product roadmap.
Run projects and workstreams end-to-end—setting timelines, resolving blockers, and keeping the team moving.
Guide architecture and technical decisions across the platform stack to keep systems coherent, secure, and scalable.
Establish and enforce engineering quality standards: design reviews, testing discipline, documentation, and security practices.
Define and maintain the interfaces and shared capabilities that feature teams consume.
Hire, onboard, and develop engineers; give direct feedback, build growth plans, and cultivate technical leadership within the team.
Run structured hiring end-to-end: define the bar, build the interview process, run rigorous debriefs, and close strong candidates.
Collaborate with feature teams and other internal consumers to ensure platform capabilities meet their needs.
Coordinate cross-team dependencies and communicate clearly on timelines, risks, and tradeoffs.
Occasionally contribute hands-on—code review, implementation, or debugging—when it unblocks the team or accelerates delivery.
Who You Are
You're equally comfortable in a design review and a 1:1—you bring the same rigor to both.
You think in systems: architecture, interfaces, team structure, and delivery dependencies, not just tickets.
You hold a high bar without creating drag—you know when to push and when to get out of the way.
You execute: you drive projects to completion, make decisions under uncertainty, and actively resolve ambiguity before it becomes drift.
You communicate crisply with engineers, operators, and leadership, without losing technical truth.
You're energized by platform work: building foundations that others build on, and getting the interfaces right.
You bring calm, structured decision-making to ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces.
Must Have
You have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
You have 3–5 years of engineering management experience, with a track record of delivering on time at high quality.
You've led teams of mixed discipline (frontend, backend, and/or infrastructure engineers) and managed engineers across seniority levels.
You have strong technical breadth across modern web platforms and backend services: you can read the code, evaluate architecture, and understand interface contracts without being a specialist in every layer.
You've owned a technical roadmap and made sound prioritization calls under real constraints.
You've built and maintained platform or shared-service capabilities consumed by other engineering teams, or are eager to grow into this responsibility.
You have a track record of developing ICs: clear expectations, regular feedback, and coaching that creates growth.
You must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance.
Nice to Have
You have experience in defense, intelligence, or national security technology environments.
You've worked with graph databases (e.g., Neo4j) or graph-based modeling for complex analytical problems.
You've built or scaled enterprise features: multi-tenancy, RBAC, audit logging, or similar.
You've led teams shipping authentication and authorization infrastructure (AuthN, AuthZ, SSO).
You have experience with secure development practices for government or controlled environments.
You have background in cybersecurity, networking, or data-intensive domains — cyber operations experience is a plus but not a requirement.
Tech Environment (You Might Work With)
React + TypeScript for user-facing applications and shared UI components
Go (and sometimes Python) for backend services and integrations
Neo4j and graph-based data modeling for core platform capabilities
PostgreSQL, Terraform, Ansible, and infrastructure-as-code
AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tooling

Engineering Manager, Platform Team

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