Finch

Engineering Manager

• Champion Finch's values of empathy, execution, humility, and curiosity
• Manage and grow a 5-person platform engineering team through hiring, 1-on-1s, performance reviews, career development, and culture building
• Own the platform roadmap alongside senior engineers
• Prioritize infrastructure stability, developer tooling, security, and architectural improvements
• Make technical trade-off decisions across technical debt, new capabilities, build versus buy, optimization, and rewrites
• Review Terraform and make informed architectural decisions
• Partner with product engineering teams and leadership to align platform investments with company priorities
• Communicate platform constraints and trade-offs
• Set platform engineering standards and best practices for infrastructure-as-code, observability, deployment practices, and incident response
• Drive continuous improvement of team productivity, engineering processes, and delivery efficiency
• Lead infrastructure work involving CI reliability, observability consolidation, PII encryption, data contamination prevention, monolith decomposition, and database scaling