Engineering Manager, Platform

Meridian Softworks's Engineering team continuously works to improve our product, our systems, and our craft. We embrace modern technologies, invest in engineering excellence, and prioritize building maintainable, reliable, and scalable solutions. We work closely across engineering, product, and design to deliver exceptional experiences for our customers while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning. About the Role We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team within our Platform Engineering organization. Our mission is to empower engineers who take ownership, seek accountability, and care deeply about delivering reliable and performant experiences to end users. We do this by providing a cohesive platform of intuitive tools, proven patterns, and seamless infrastructure that make the responsible path the easiest one. As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team responsible for building and evolving foundational capabilities that enable engineers across Meridian Softworks to deliver high-quality products efficiently, reliably, and at scale. You'll partner closely with engineers, product leaders, and stakeholders throughout the organization to improve engineering effectiveness, strengthen operational excellence, and support long-term platform investments. This is an opportunity to have broad impact across the engineering organization while helping build a culture that values ownership, accountability, and customer-centric thinking. What You Will Do Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers, supporting their growth and helping them do the best work of their careers. Foster a healthy, inclusive, and high-performing engineering culture aligned with Meridian Softworks's values. Partner with engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to identify and prioritize opportunities that improve platform capabilities, developer effectiveness, and operational excellence. Drive execution against team goals and ensure the successful delivery of impactful technical initiatives. Support your team in making thoughtful technical and operational decisions that balance velocity, reliability, maintainability, and long-term sustainability. Establish clarity around priorities, goals, and success metrics in an environment that may involve ambiguity and competing priorities. Help build and scale engineering processes that improve team effectiveness and delivery outcomes. Contribute to hiring efforts and help attract, assess, and onboard exceptional engineering talent. Collaborate with engineering leaders to shape priorities and investments across the broader platform organization. What You Will Bring to the Table Experience managing and developing software engineers. A track record of delivering impactful technical initiatives through high-performing teams. Strong partnership and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across functions and organizational boundaries. Experience leading teams responsible for platform, infrastructure, shared services, developer productivity, or other foundational engineering systems. Sound technical judgment and the ability to engage in architectural and operational discussions with engineers. A passion for building healthy engineering cultures and supporting individual growth and career development. Experience balancing short-term execution with long-term technical investments. Comfort operating in environments with ambiguity, autonomy, and ownership. A strong appreciation for reliability, operational excellence, scalability, and engineering effectiveness. Experience with cloud-based systems and modern software development practices. Nice to Have Experience supporting internal platform, infrastructure, developer experience, or productivity initiatives. Familiarity with technologies commonly used at Meridian Softworks, including AWS, Node.js, React, GraphQL, and Postgres. Experience helping organizations improve engineering velocity, developer experience, reliability, or operational maturity. Why This Role Matters Platform teams have an outsized impact on the success of every engineering team at Meridian Softworks. The work done here helps create the foundation that enables engineers to move faster, operate more reliably, and deliver exceptional experiences for customers. Success in this role means building an environment where engineers can thrive, teams can scale effectively, and the responsible path consistently becomes the easiest path. --- The estimated annual cash salary for this role is $187,500- $234,500. This position is also eligible for incentive stock options, subject to the terms of Meridian Softworks’s applicable plans. Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: Medical insurance; Dental insurance; Vision insurance; Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance; Emergency Weather Support; Wellness Apps; Paid Parental Leave, Paid Time off inclusive of holidays and sick time; Commuter & Parking Accounts; Lunches in the Office; Workplace Amenities Stipend, Internet and Phone Stipend; One time WFH Office Set-Up Stipend; 401(k) retirement plan; Financial Planning; Learning & Development Budget. *Note on Pay Transparency: Meridian Softworks provides an estimate of the compensation for roles that may be hired as required by state regulations. Compensation may vary based on (a) location, as Meridian Softworks factors in specific locations when benchmarking compensation for most roles; (b) individual candidate skills and qualifications; and (c) individual candidate experience. Additionally, Meridian Softworks leverages current market data to determine compensation, so posted compensation figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Meridian Softworks reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law. #LI-Remote About Meridian Softworks Meridian Softworks is on a mission to build cultures where employees and their companies thrive. In an age where employees have more choices than ever before, businesses that put employees first are winning 🏅– and Meridian Softworks is building the tools to empower those people-centric companies. Meridian Softworks is a people success platform that offers performance reviews, employee engagement surveys, real-time feedback, weekly check-ins, goal setting, and career planning in a way that allows companies to focus on employee development, growth, and engagement – yielding stronger employee retention, performance, and impact to the bottom line 📈. Since launching in 2016, we have grown to over 5,000+ customers globally, including brands like Loom, Robinhood, and Gusto. Meridian Softworks is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. Meridian Softworks is an equal opportunity employer; committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. 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