💼 About This Role

You'll lead Knock's small but growing platform team, building and scaling core services and infrastructure. You'll own the team's roadmap and have high autonomy in shaping how we operate, reporting directly to the CTO. This is the first engineering manager hire and offers a chance to define the platform engineering culture from the ground up.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Hire and build a high-performing platform team over the next year
• Own the platform roadmap and prioritization balancing investments and delivery
• Coach and develop engineers through 1-on-1s and stretch projects
• Contribute to architecture decisions and write code strategically
• Lead incident response and drive reliability improvements

📋 Requirements

• 3+ years as an engineering manager in a startup or mid-sized company
• Strong technical foundations in platform or infrastructure engineering
• Track record of hiring, growing, and retaining excellent engineers
• Experience leading on-call rotations and incident response for a high-availability service

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience with fast-growing, well-structured engineering organizations
• Comfort owning prioritization without a dedicated Product Manager partner
• Strong communication skills for distributed remote-first team

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🏖️ Remote-first culture with optional NYC hub
• 💰 Competitive equity in a Series A startup
• 🧑‍💻 AI tools fully embraced and encouraged
• 📝 Long-form documentation culture
• 🌈 Inclusive and equitable team culture

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
2. 2Hiring Manager Interview· 60 min
3. 3Technical Interview· 60 min