Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

📋 Description

• Directly manage a team growing to 5–7 senior engineers — 1:1s, goal setting, feedback, career
• Own your domain’s technical outcomes: delivery, reliability, and the consequences of its big
• Partner with product to balance feature development with tech debt drawdown, infrastructure
• Drive operational excellence, including on-call, incident response, code quality, testing, AI, and
• Protect and scale the culture as we grow: open debate, product ownership, continuous improvement
• Represent your team with stakeholders and leadership: translate technical realities into business

🎯 Requirements

• Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies
• Language Requirement: English
• 3+ years managing software engineers through full delivery cycles
• 8+ years of overall industry experience building production software, with a strong backend
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, coach, develop, and retain engineers, building and retaining a
• Track record of building a strong engineering culture including candid, ego-free debate, deep

🎁 Benefits

• At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited
• Unless otherwise noted, the benefits stipend may be used to cover benefits or taken as additional
• United States: Base Salary: $181,130; Bonus at Target Performance: 15% (~$27,170, with potential
• United Kingdom: Base Salary: £124,370; Bonus at Target Performance: 15% (~£18,656, with potential
• Kenya: Base Salary: $112,350; Bonus at Target Performance: 15% (~$16,853, with potential for
• This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in the US, UK or Kenya, we will share an