Senior Engineering Manager

About us:

Exiger makes the world a safe place to do business. Positioned at the bleeding edge of critical national security and commercial innovation, we offer AI-enabled supply chain risk management technology that empowers our Defense Industrial Base, Automotive, Pharmaceutical, and Commercial customers to build more transparent, resilient, and secure global supply chains while illuminating human rights abuses such as forced labor, human trafficking, and child labor.

About the role:

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Engineering Manager to lead our Risk Team, the group responsible for our core risk engine - the cornerstone of our platform. By combining data on global companies with signals from worldwide events, our Risk Team builds systems that transform massive volumes of raw data into actionable risk insights. These insights help our customers identify and mitigate potential risks in their suppliers and partners, driving smarter and safer business decisions.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll guide a cross-functional team of backend, frontend, and data engineers to build reliable, scalable web applications and services that power our SaaS platform. You will play a key role in ensuring the quality, performance, and maintainability of our systems while helping your team deliver features quickly and effectively.

What you'll do:

• Own Exiger's Risk function end-to-end
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of ~10 engineers (frontend, backend, and data), fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Drive delivery of new features across multiple services and systems, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-quality releases
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, Data Science, Infrastructure, as well as other dev teams to align priorities and deliver business value
• Oversee architecture and design decisions, helping the team make tradeoffs between performance, scalability, and time-to-market
• Ensure reliability and observability across our microservices ecosystem, including production monitoring, alerting, and recovery
• Ensure operational excellence, managing the CI/CD lifecycle, testing, and deployments
• Scale systems and processes as the company grows-helping us transition from rapid development to sustainable, high-quality delivery at scale

What you bring to the team:

• Unyielding sense of ownership and accountability - you care about your work and it shows
• 6+ years of hands-on engineering experience including strong background in backend systems or data-intensive applications
• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading software teams
• Complete understanding of cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and IAC
• Experience building and scaling mission-critical, API-first SaaS systems, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architectural vision
• Proven track record of mentorship and fostering growth of engineers at all levels
• Passion for data, analytics, and using technology to uncover meaningful insights
• Experience working at a rapidly evolving, PE-backed startup
• Bonus points for experience operating in an air-gapped FedRAMP or DOD I/L environment

Our tech stack:

• Core Platform: Java (21+) / Spring Boot; Python / Celery
• Data: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake
• Frontend: TypeScript / Angular
• Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes via Helm and Argo CD; AWS via Terraform
• Testing: Testcontainers, WireMock, JUnit, Pytest, Cypress
• Observability: ELK, DataDog
• Architecture: Event-Driven Microservices