<p><strong>Lead the team building the foundational systems that keep Seesaw reliable, scalable, and easy for product teams to build on. </strong></p> <p><strong>About the Role </strong></p> <p>Seesaw is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Core Systems team - the team responsible for many of the foundational capabilities that power Seesaw and enable our product teams to build and scale effectively. </p> <p>This role sits at the intersection of engineering leadership, systems architecture, reliability, and product delivery. You'll lead a team of experienced engineers working on systems that need to operate reliably at significant scale while continuing to evolve as Seesaw grows into new markets, customer segments, and product capabilities. </p> <p>We're looking for a manager who is comfortable operating in technically complex areas, can help engineers make good architectural decisions, and knows how to turn long-term platform investments into incremental, measurable progress. </p> <p>You won't need to be the person writing every design document or solving every technical problem - but you should be technically strong enough to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, understand tradeoffs, and help the team navigate difficult engineering decisions. </p> <p><strong>What You'll Do </strong></p> <p><strong>Lead and grow a strong engineering team </strong></p> <ul> <li>Manage, coach, and develop a team of software engineers working on critical shared systems. </li> <li>Build a high-performing team with clear expectations around ownership, technical quality, collaboration, and delivery. </li> <li>Help engineers grow their technical and leadership capabilities through regular feedback, coaching, and thoughtful assignment of responsibilities. </li> <li>Partner with engineering leadership on hiring, organizational planning, and building the capabilities the team will need over time. </li> </ul> <p><strong>Own critical systems and technical outcomes </strong></p> <ul> <li>Provide leadership for foundational systems that support Seesaw's products and engineering organization. </li> <li>Work with senior and staff engineers to establish clear architectural direction and make thoughtful technical tradeoffs. </li> <li>Ensure systems are designed for reliability, scalability, security, maintainability, and operational simplicity. </li> <li>Balance improvements to existing systems with investments in longer-term architecture and platform capabilities. </li> <li>Drive down unnecessary complexity, operational burden, and recurring technical debt.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Deliver meaningful platform improvements </strong></p> <ul> <li>Translate broad technical and business goals into clear, executable engineering plans.</li> <li>Break large architectural initiatives into incremental milestones that create value along the way.</li> <li>Establish clear ownership, priorities, success measures, and decision points for the team. </li> <li>Identify execution risks early and work across teams to resolve dependencies and blockers. </li> <li>Create enough structure and predictability for stakeholders without introducing unnecessary process. </li> </ul> <p><strong>Make other engineering teams more effective </strong></p> <ul> <li>Treat internal engineering teams as important customers of Core Systems. </li> <li>Build APIs, services, tools, and platform capabilities that make it easier for product teams to move quickly and safely. </li> <li>Partner closely with product engineering teams to understand recurring pain points and identify opportunities for shared solutions. </li> <li>Establish clear boundaries and ownership between shared platform capabilities and product specific functionality. </li> </ul> <p><strong>Operate critical systems well </strong></p> <ul> <li>Build a strong operational culture around the systems the team owns. </li> <li>Use observability, incidents, capacity planning, and production data to continuously improve reliability. </li> <li>Lead thoughtful incident reviews and ensure the team addresses systemic issues rather than simply fixing symptoms. </li> <li>Help the team make pragmatic decisions about reliability and resilience based on customer and business impact. </li> </ul> <p><strong>What We're Looking For </strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience managing software engineering teams responsible for complex production systems. </li> <li>A strong software engineering background and the technical depth to participate meaningfully in architecture and system-design discussions. </li> <li>Experience designing, operating, or leading teams responsible for distributed systems, backend services, shared platforms, or similarly foundational technology. </li> <li>A track record of delivering significant technical initiatives involving multiple systems or engineering teams. </li> <li>Strong judgment about when to invest in architecture and when a simpler solution is the right answer. </li> <li>Experience building systems wh