Platform Engineering ManagerLocation: Plano, Texas
Work Model: Full-time, hybrid 2 days minimum in-office, balance of days optional remote
Reports to: Director of Technology
The opportunityCheil USA is hiring a player-coach to lead our platform engineering team, which owns our core web stack and the systems that need to scale as our user base grows. You'll split your time between leading the team and contributing directly to the codebase.
What you'll do - Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend and full-stack engineers
- Stay hands-on with architecture, code review, and critical-path development
- Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of our core web services and data layer
- Establish engineering standards, on-call practices, and a healthy delivery cadence
- Plan capacity and architecture for systems supporting significantly larger user bases
What we're looking for - 7+ years of software engineering with 2+ years managing engineers
- Deep experience with a modern web stack (e.g. TypeScript/Node or Python, relational and NoSQL databases, REST/GraphQL APIs, cloud infrastructure)
- Experience scaling systems through meaningful growth in traffic and data
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, observability, and security
- A calm, structured approach to prioritization and incident management
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience in agency, marketing technology, e-commerce, or consumer-facing web environments a plus
- Able to work in a hybrid office environment at the Plano, Texas location: Tuesdays and Thursdays in office with Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays remote optional
