Senior Technical Lead Manager, Core Platform

What You Will Do:

As a technical lead and manager of the Core Platform team, you will be responsible for leading the team in building the core platforms. As Moveworks grows fast, the platform team is tasked with designing and operating reliable and resilient platforms and frameworks that enable multiple products and our engineering teams to build customer facing capabilities very rapidly.
We’re building a team that indexes on moving fast, solving challenging product/engineering problems and providing value to our customers. To be successful, you'll be partnering with machine learning, search, product, data, and full stack teams to identify, define and build elegant solutions. This is an opportunity to play an integral role at the fastest-growing AI startup in its space.

• Oversee and evolve core platform building blocks and frameworks with focus on developer productivity, reliability, scalability, performance, and security.

• Closely work with machine learning, search, product, data, and frontend teams, understand their platform needs, influence roadmap, lead and execute on various projects.

• Architect and build out the core platforms such as content ingestion platform, crawler framework, permissions enforcement platform, identity platform, content retrieval platform etc.

• Define methodologies and metrics to measure performance of core services, identify and fix bottlenecks, as well as improve overall performance and scalability of Moveworks stack.

• Hire and mentor engineers in the team and foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement.

What you bring to the table:

• Hands on technical leader with a strong sense of ownership - proactively leading complex platform initiatives from conception through delivery and operations.

• 3+ years of experience growing and managing team with 5+ engineers including senior engineers.

• 7+ years of hands on experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining highly scalable and fault tolerant backend distributed systems.

• Familiarity with Python/Golang/Java/C++.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP.

• Experience working with and operating technologies like Kafka, Opensearch, Redis, Postgres, Temporal etc. at scale.

• Experience with building ML products is plus.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence all levels of the organization and translate complex product needs into clear platform abstractions.

• Desire to work at a startup pace in a small company with a high degree of ownership.

• Experience solving for performance, optimization, scalability, latency, and monitoring.

• BS+ in computer science or a related field.

• High level of curiosity about engineering outside of your immediate discipline and an incessant desire to learn.

Compensation Range: $245,000 - $330,000

*Our compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions or bonus plans.
Ultimately, in determining pay, final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, the role’s scope and complexity, the candidate’s experience and expertise, and other factors.

Moveworks Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
*Moveworks is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.

Who We Are

Moveworks is an AI Assistant that helps all employees find information, automate tasks, and be more productive. We give the entire workforce one interface to get answers and take action across every enterprise system. And for developers, we make it easy to build and deploy AI agents that bring the power of Moveworks to every business process or workflow.

It’s all powered by a pioneering Reasoning Engine paired with an Agentic Automation Engine that, together, are able to handle even the most complex requests by understanding queries, then building and executing intelligent plans to fulfill them — in seconds.

Founded in 2016, Moveworks has raised $315M in funding, and eclipsed $100M in ARR in 2024 thanks to our award-winning product and team. Along the way, we’ve earned recognition as a leader in the Forrester Wave for Conversational AI Platforms for Employee Services, as a member of the Forbes Cloud 100 and AI 50 lists, and as one of America’s Most Loved Workplaces according to Newsweek.

Today, Moveworks has over 500 employees in six offices globally, and is backed by some of the world's most prominent investors including Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Bain Capital Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Iconiq, and more.

Over 350 leading organizations like Marriott, Databricks, Toyota, CVS Health, and Honeywell trust Moveworks to increase operational efficiency, enhance the employee experience, and drive lasting AI transformation.

Come join one of the most innovative teams on the planet!