Engineering Manager
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Job Description
Lead the Core of Platform Innovation
Were building the internal backbone that enables 15 engineering teams to ship faster smarter and at scale. Were looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a platform team focused on creating backend infrastructure and internal developer tooling with a view to support cutting-edge data workflows and next-gen AI integration.
Youll manage a compact but highly capable team (4 engineers to start) helping architect and evolve an internal developer platform built on Kubernetes powered by Spring Boot APIs and PostgreSQL and designed for reliability observability and growth.
Why this role matters:
Youll operate at the intersection of infrastructure and application engineering enabling internal teams to work more effectively while laying the foundation for scalable data platforms and potential GenAI capabilities. This team is key to platform reliability code integration and engineering productivity across the organization.
What Youll Do:
- Lead a team of backend and platform engineers to deliver scalable developer-focused infrastructure.
- Build and evolve our internal developer platform enabling 15 engineering teams to ship high-quality code faster.
- Balance two customer groups: internal contributors integrating with platform services and external teams interacting with APIs and hosted features.
- Own critical components including Kubernetes-based infrastructure Java/Spring Boot microservices and observability tooling.
- Collaborate with infrastructure product and data teams to align platform capabilities with business needs and technical goals.
- Help define platform strategy with a focus on scalability monitoring and developer experience.
- Contribute to future-facing initiatives including integration with AI platform services (e.g. Vertex Bedrock ChatGPT) and vector-based metadata systems.
- Develop and grow your team participate in hiring and champion best practices in engineering and collaboration.
Requirements
- 5 years in software engineering with 2 years of engineering leadership or team management experience.
- Strong technical foundation in Kubernetes backend development (Java/Spring) RESTful APIs and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building internal platforms tooling or services used by multiple engineering teams.
- Familiarity with application architecture distributed systems and platform reliability best practices.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguous technical/product challenges and balancing long-term platform evolution with near-term delivery.
- Excellent communication skills in English (written and verbal) and the ability to build trust across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Permanent Employment
- Paid Vacation
- (Take time to recharge with at least 20 days of paid vacation each yeartailored to meet or exceed the minimum in your country)
- Paid Sick Leave
- (Prioritize your health with up to 4 weeks of paid short-term sick leave when you need time to rest and recover)
- Flexible Benefit Funds
- (A monthly allowance you can use your wayon food fitness wellness and more)
- Birthing Parental Leave
- (14 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents plus a 3-week return-to-work transition program)
- Non-Birthing Parental Leave
- (8 weeks of fully paid leave for partners adoptive parents foster parents and surrogateswith a 3-week return-to-work transition to help you ease back in)
- Global Employee Assistance Program
- (Access up to 10 free therapy sessions and 10 coaching sessions)
- Bereavement Leave
- (Take the time you need to grieve and be with loved ones with 10 days of fully paid bereavement leave)
- Caregiver Support Leave
- (Be there for the people who matter mostreceive up to 4 weeks of paid caregiver leave)
Our values
We are a company that seeks the best for both our employees and clients reaching beyond expectations in turning dreams into reality. Our way of working is rooted in our core values (Integrity Excellence Proactivity Innovation and People) with an expectation that our future colleagues will make these their second nature in their everyday work and life. We dont ask for perfection but we do appreciate people motivated to better themselves in every conceivable aspect.
About IT Labs
Founded in 2005 IT Labs is an international software tech company specializing in purpose and process-driven teams for high performance innovation transformation and efficiency. Our HQ is in Palm Beach Gardens Florida and we have teams and offices around the world - the US the UK the Netherlands Argentina Brazil Serbia and North Macedonia. We are constantly growing and we would love for you to become part of our team!
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
