Athenago

Athenago

Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

Los Angeles · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 2 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentPlatform EngineeringLLMsAI OrchestrationIncident ResponseHubSpotCRMSalesShopifyLeadershipCommunicationMentoringAdaptability

About the role

  • The role requires the judgment to balance near-term business needs with long-term platform architecture, reliability, and maintainability.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow the Platform Engineering team: Manage, coach, and develop engineers and engineering managers
  • Drive execution across critical initiatives: Translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical plans, milestones, ownership, and measurable outcomes.
  • Partner cross-functionally: Work closely with Product, Operations, Sales, Finance, Legal, Data, and Athena AI to design practical systems that reflect real workflows, controls, and edge cases.
  • Build reusable systems: Reduce one-off solutions by creating common platform capabilities for workflow orchestration, case management, reporting, role-based access, document generation, and third-party integrations.
  • Improve engineering excellence: Strengthen design reviews, testing, release practices, monitoring, incident response, documentation, and production readiness.
  • Lead and grow the Platform Engineering team: Manage, coach, and develop engineers and engineering managers; set clear expectations for ownership, technical quality, execution, and collaboration.
  • Manage, coach, and develop engineers and engineering managers; set clear expectations for ownership, technical quality, execution, and collaboration.
  • Work closely with Product, Operations, Sales, Finance, Legal, Data, and Athena AI to design practical systems that reflect real workflows, controls, and edge cases.

Requirements

  • Leadership experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing engineering teams and at least 2 years leading senior engineers, managers, or multiple workstreams.
  • Technical depth: Strong background in backend, full-stack, platform, infrastructure, or enterprise application engineering, with the ability to guide architecture and make sound technical tradeoffs.
  • Execution: Track record of delivering complex, cross-functional programs from problem definition through launch, adoption, and iteration.
  • Product and business judgment: Ability to understand operational problems, challenge requirements constructively, prioritize based on impact, and connect engineering decisions to business outcomes.
  • Operational excellence: Experience improving reliability, observability, incident response, testing, release processes, and engineering productivity.
  • Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to senior stakeholders.
  • Strong background in backend, full-stack, platform, infrastructure, or enterprise application engineering, with the ability to guide architecture and make sound technical tradeoffs.
  • Ability to understand operational problems, challenge requirements constructively, prioritize based on impact, and connect engineering decisions to business outcomes.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to senior stakeholders.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Platform experience: Experience building and operating business-critical platforms involving APIs, integrations, workflow orchestration, stateful business processes, permissions, and complex data models.
  • People management: Demonstrated success hiring, coaching, developing, and retaining strong engineers and managers, including effective performance and career management.
  • Adaptability: Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities, incomplete information, and high expectations.
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

  • Experience leading internal platforms, operations systems, CRM-adjacent products, case management, billing, or enterprise workflow products.
  • Experience with AI-powered products, LLM integrations, agent systems, or AI-assisted workflow automation.
  • Experience with authentication, authorization, SSO, role-based access control, and privacy-sensitive workflows.
  • Experience integrating systems such as HubSpot, Stripe, Google Workspace, DocuSign, or similar SaaS platforms.
  • Experience with workflow engines, state machines, event-driven architecture, analytics, and reporting on operational lifecycle data.
  • Experience in a high-growth, globally distributed, or startup environment.

Skills

  • About Athena
  • Athena ( athena.com ) pairs world-class leaders with elite executive assistants.
  • It's where some of the most powerful partnerships in the world get built.
  • Our clients are founders, executives, and leaders whose ambition exceeds their time.
  • Athena is one of the largest companies in this category, with 3,000+ clients and over $100M in annual run rate.
  • Our clients include Uber, Shopify, and Goldman Sachs.
  • That means being clear, responsive, and reliable.
  • The way work gets done is in flux between people, systems, and AI.

Compensation

  • Athena is one of the largest companies in this category, with 3,000+ clients and over $100M in annual run rate.

Benefits

  • Own operational reliability: Improve alerting coverage, reduce production issue resolution time, and ensure the team learns from incidents and recurring support patterns.

Equal opportunity

  • Employer
  • At Athena, we are deeply committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace environment. We provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We strive to create an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives and talents.
  • At Athena, we are deeply committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace environment.
  • We provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.
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