Engineering Manager

LOCATION: Mclean, VA or Richmond, VA or New York City

WORK TYPE: Hybrid (2 days per week)

About us:

Exiger makes the world a safe place to do business. Positioned at the bleeding edge of critical national security and commercial innovation, we offer AI-enabled supply chain risk management technology that empowers our Defense Industrial Base, Automotive, Pharmaceutical, and Commercial customers to build more transparent, resilient, and secure global supply chains while illuminating human rights abuses such as forced labor, human trafficking, and child labor.

About the role:

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Team, the group responsible for our shared services, infrastructure and developer experience — the cornerstone of our platform.

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll guide a cross-functional team of backend, frontend, and infrastructure engineers to build reliable, scalable web applications and services that power our software development teams. You will play a key role in ensuring the quality, performance, and maintainability of our systems while helping your team deliver features quickly and effectively.

What you’ll do:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of ~10 engineers (frontend, backend, and infrastructure), fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Set the strategic foundational direction for platform engineering across the entire Exiger engineering organization

• Define short-term and long-term platform deliverable and ensure all active projects are aligned to leadership goals
• Act as an organizational resource to unblock and enable multiple engineering teams across diverse platform challenges

• Design solutions and processes that have meaningful impact across the entire tech org and Exiger’s business and Manage major company-level platform initiatives delivered by multiple teams

• Instill and promote a culture of learning, engineering excellence, and platform ownership across engineering

• Contribute to financial planning and the long-term success of the platform team with the business

• Engage with AWS account teams, evaluate new AWS services for adoption, and influence how Exiger leverages AWS’s evolving platform

• Own organizational runbook and platform documentation standards; ensure operational knowledge scales with the engineering organization

• Lead hiring strategy and technical interview calibration for platform engineering; partner with engineering leadership on team growth

• Ensure operational excellence, managing the CI/CD lifecycle, testing, deployments and self-healing architectures
• Scale systems and processes as the company grows—helping us transition from rapid development to sustainable, high-quality delivery at scale

What you bring to the team:

• Unyielding sense of ownership and accountability – you care about your work and it shows
• 6+ years of hands-on engineering experience including strong background in backend systems or data-intensive applications
• 2+ years of engineering management experience leading software teams
• Complete understanding of cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and IAC
• Experience building and scaling mission-critical, API-first PaaS and SaaS systems, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architectural vision
• Proven track record of mentorship and fostering growth of engineers at all levels
• Passion for data, analytics, and using technology to uncover meaningful insights
• Experience working at a rapidly evolving, PE-backed startup
• Bonus points for experience operating in an air-gapped FedRAMP or DOD I/L environment

Our tech stack:

• Java, Python, Go, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Kargo, ArgoCD, LGTM, ELK