amplo - Senior Engineering Manager
Requirements
• 8+ years of engineering experience including 4+ Years managing engineers in a SaaS environment. • An operational excellence skillset – you've built the systems, rituals, and metrics that make engineering teams predictably great. • Strong technical foundation with depth in backend and/or data engineering; you can go deep enough to earn credibility with the team and surface the right tradeoffs. • Proven ability to translate between the highly technical and the non-technical with engineers, customers, and executives. • Track record of building team culture and operating as an effective people manager. • Experience operating in compliance-bound environments (SOC2 or similar). • Strong communication skills and comfortable in a highly async remote-first environment. • Insurtech or other highly regulated industry background. • Experience building and/or shipping AI-powered products. • Familiarity with building and scaling engineering workflows using AI tooling. • Based in NYC strongly preferred but not required. • What Success Looks Like • In your first 6-12 months the following should be true: • Team health and retention signals are strong and improving across all reporting teams. • Delivery cadence and predictability are consistent. • Reliability and incident posture reflect a platform teams can stand behind. • Specific platform-level milestones are hit: A meaningful capability shipped, a compliance milestone reached, and a systemic reliability problem solved.
Responsibilities
• Establish and drive engineering excellence: Own the operational baseline for how amplo’s engineering team works. Define the metrics, audit where the team is today, and build a clear path to improve how software gets built. • Establish and drive engineering excellence: • Bridge the Technical and the Non-Technical Serve as the translation layer between engineering reality and business context. Help engineers see the forest through the trees — connecting their day-to-day work to customer impact and company priorities. Equally, help non-technical stakeholders understand what's actually hard, what's at risk, and what tradeoffs are on the table. • Bridge the Technical and the Non-Technical • Lead and Develop the Engineering Team: Directly manage a team of ~10 engineers. Build a team culture that moves through storming and norming toward genuinely high performance. Invest in the people, not just the output. • Lead and Develop the Engineering Team: • Own Compliance and Reliability Operate within SOC 2 Type 2 controls and partner with compliance on evidence and audits. Ensure teams meet data-handling, access, and audit-trail requirements as a matter of standard practice — not a sprint scramble before an audit. • Own Compliance and Reliability
Benefits
• An UPTO policy and 13 paid company holidays • A whole person approach to taking care of you with medical, vision, dental, disability, and life benefits + annual wellness stipend • 401(k) with employer match + safe harbor vesting
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