Engineering Manager (Platform – Application Excellence)

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential SaaS organization seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their Application Excellence team. This is a high-impact role focused on improving internal developer experience and productivity across the engineering organization.

The Application Excellence team exists to make engineers faster and more effective by establishing golden paths, building self-serve tooling, and removing operational friction. Your work will directly influence how every engineer builds and ships software.

This role reports to the Director of Engineering within the Platform group, which acts as a force multiplier for product teams by providing the tooling and infrastructure that enables them to focus on delivering value.

Location: Ireland, Portugal, or UK (remote/digital-first)

Responsibilities

• Lead the team to deliver developer productivity initiatives from concept through rollout, working closely with engineers and stakeholders across the organization
• Own developer productivity and internal developer experience as key outcomes
• Listen across the organization, synthesize feedback, and build buy-in before committing to a direction; maintain a clear, well-argued roadmap
• Coordinate across team boundaries including SRE, Security, Principal Engineers, and leadership, influencing without relying on authority
• Manage and coach your engineers, enabling their personal and professional growth and high-impact team performance
• Stay hands-on and technically credible, contributing to code and reviews while focusing on direction, alignment, and unblocking the team
• Oversee technical decisions and contribute to the Platform group's technical strategy
• Maintain shared libraries and tools relied upon by dozens of services, leading their upkeep and safe rollout
• Drive improvements to developer experience and the reliability and scalability of a high-traffic, event-driven system

What We're Looking For

• Significant experience as a senior engineer on complex, large-scale, cloud-based systems (Go experience a plus)
• Previous experience on Platform or Internal Developer Experience teams
• Management experience with several direct reports (2+ years) at at least two organizations, with a genuine passion for developing people
• Specific experience building products for internal stakeholders and developers
• Excellent at building trust and alignment: able to gather feedback, communicate clear rationale, and bring people with you
• Comfortable holding plans loosely, forming strong views from evidence, and updating them readily with new information
• Thrive in ambiguity, able to shape loosely-defined problems into a clear, sequenced path while maintaining pace
• Strong understanding of what makes a high-performing and sustainable engineering team
• Proactive ownership mindset with strong self-awareness and commitment to continuous improvement

Technical environment includes: Go, PHP Laravel, Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS (ECS Fargate, SQS, EventBridge), Redis, Terraform, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry

How We Work With You

Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our talent team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and ensure strong alignment with the role. We then submit qualified candidates to our client for their review and interview process.

Please do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all applications must come through our recruiting process to be considered.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience and location.

Equal Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to inclusive recruiting practices. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and encourage applications from individuals who may not meet every requirement listed, particularly those from underrepresented groups. Please let us know if you require any accommodations during the application process.