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LAYIQ - Engineering Manager, Platform at Usenourish

Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of 4–5 engineers with strong technical ownership.
Coach engineers through regular feedback, career development, calibration, and performance management.
Scale the team through recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
Stay hands-on through architecture, pair programming, coding, code reviews, and on-call.
Set the vision and roadmap for the team by collaborating with engineering leads, security, IT, and other cross functional partners.
Drive thoughtful decisions around system design, code quality, observability, reliability, and scalability.
Establish effective team rituals, including sprint planning, OKR planning and reporting, quarterly planning, and retrospectives.
Operate with urgency and sound judgment in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Set the technical direction for systems that support business-critical work across the engineering org.
Report on platform health to leadership through clear metrics like uptime, incident response time, infrastructure cost, and time-to-production KPIs.
Partner with our IT and legal teams to maintain and improve our posture on security and compliance controls.
Build reliable, auditable systems that can safely scale through rapid growth and regulatory complexity.
We’d Love to Hear from You If You: Have
6+ years of professional software engineering experience with modern full-stack technologies and
2+ years of hands-on engineering management experience.
Have hired engineers and managed performance, promotions, and career development.
Remain technical enough to pair program with your team and contribute directly when needed.
Bring exceptional cross functional judgment: you can write a PRD, understand product team bottlenecks, size an opportunity, and make progress without waiting on external stakeholders.
Are highly proficient with TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, ECS on AWS
, or similar modern stacks.
Have shipped and owned production systems in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
Balance people leadership with technical depth, delivery focus, and clear communication.
Are energized by Nourish’s mission to improve people’s health by making it easy to eat well.
Nice To Have: Healthcare or regulated-industry experience (HIPAA-covered systems, BAAs with vendors, access controls)
IaC experience (Terraform, AWS CDK)
Observability instrumentation (we use OTel to Axiom)
Incident leadership (on-call rotations, incident response, postmortem followthrough)
Developer experience history (CI, internal tooling)
Security engineering experience (vulnerability management, POLP enforcement, SOC 2 compliance)
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