Senior Engineering Manager - Data Platforms & APIs

Job Description
HiBob helps modern, mid-size businesses transform the way they manage people, giving HR and managers all they need to connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Since 2015, we've achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth, all backed by our amazing team of Bobbers from across the globe, making us the choice HRIS of over 1500 midsize and multinational companies.
Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Fast-growing companies across the globe, such as Airtasker, Fiverr, Go Cardless, HiPages, and VaynerMedia rely upon Bob to help them create the best work experiences for their people.
Come and be you with us
We're looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager (Group Lead) to lead the Platform and Data group within Bob Finance - the foundation powering our next generation of financial planning and analytics capabilities.
This group builds and scales the systems that make Bob Finance secure, extensible, and performant - from the data ingestion and modeling engines, to the developer experience and infrastructure layers that enable seamless integration with HiBob's platform ecosystem.
Base salary for this role ranges from $195,500 - $265,405 USD per year. We will consider candidates who reside in the U.S. and Canada.
Job Requirements

• Physically located in EST!!!!
• 2+ years as a Group Lead or Senior Engineering Manager leading multiple teams and managers in a fast-paced SaaS or platform company.
• 10+ years of hands-on engineering experience, ideally spanning data infrastructure, backend services, and distributed systems.
• Proven success building and scaling data-heavy systems using technologies such as PostgreSQL, SingleStore, Snowflake, AWS, and Kafka .
• Experience designing and managing APIs across services or third-party integrations with strong attention to reliability and secure data flow.
• A strategic mindset - able to connect long-term architectural direction to immediate product and business impact.
• Excellent people leadership skills - you inspire trust, develop talent, and lead through influence and context, not control.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to drive alignment across distributed, global teams.

The following are a big plus

• Experience with Python , C#, .NET Core, or Java , and modern cloud-native frameworks.
• Deep curiosity for AI-driven development and observability tooling .
• Experience with AI-driven or agentic application frameworks.
• Background managing offshore or multi-geo engineering teams.
• Passion for data systems, developer velocity, and architectural evolution .

Job Responsibilities

• Define and execute the technical vision for the Platform and Data group, ensuring Bob Finance scales efficiently as part of HiBob's unified ecosystem.
• Lead and mentor multiple team leaders and tech leads , fostering growth, accountability, and a culture of technical excellence.
• Drive platform reliability and performance , leading initiatives around - Connection pooling, schema evolution, database scaling etc.
• Own the platform of Bob Finance including - authentication, authorization, SSO, IDP integrations, and permission management.
• Own the evolution of the Data & Infrastructure architecture , including robust schema evolution management, ETL pipeline simplification, and deprecation of legacy systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, DevOps, and HiBob's central Platform teams to deliver a secure, efficient, and developer-friendly environment that supports rapid feature delivery.
• Shape and grow the group - define its structure, recruit top talent, and ensure each team has clear ownership and impact.
• Champion engineering excellence through measurable improvements in developer velocity, AI tooling, system stability, and operational visibility.

Benefits
HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we're especially proud of that. It's a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We're about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you'll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:

• Stock options at a high-growth unicorn startup
• 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees
• 401(k) with a 3% company match starting from Day 1
• Hybrid working model for bobbers in the NY metro area
• Work from home allowance to get your home office set up!
• Temporary remote work-from-anywhere in the world for up to 2 months after 6 months of employment
• Annual Headspace subscription and wellness benefits
• Two social impact days per year for volunteering
• Bob balance days - 4 additional days within a calendar year - Enjoy a company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter
• Employee referral program - $2,500 bonus for each successful referral with an additional ambassador bonus
• Fun and frequent social events (in-person and virtual)
• We love birthdays - take the day off and receive a special gift
• Dog-friendly office

If this sounds like something you've been looking for, we'd love to have you. Come on, join our village!
**Note: We will consider both candidates located in the New York Metro Area who are willing to work in our NYC office 2-3 days a week (Tuesday - Thursday) OR Remote across the U.S.