Engineering Manager at Exiger in McLean, VA

Who We Are: Exiger transforms supply chains into a strategic advantage—advancing our mission to make the world a safer and more transparent place to succeed. Our AI platform, 1Exiger, delivers instant visibility into complex supplier ecosystems, leveraging proprietary data and advanced AI to surface risk, automate compliance, and unlockefficiencies and cost savings to strengthen long-term resilience. Trusted by 550+ global customers—including Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies—Exiger is a recognized, award-winning leader in supply chain AI and a FedRAMP® authorized provider to the federal government. LOCATION: Mclean, VA or Richmond, VA or New York City WORK TYPE: Hybrid (2 days per week) About the role: As an Engineering Manager, you’ll guide a cross-functional team of backend, frontend, and infrastructure engineers to build reliable, scalable web applications and services that power our software development teams. 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: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of ~10 engineers (frontend, backend, and infrastructure), fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement Set the strategic foundational direction for platform engineering across the entire Exiger engineering organization Define short-term and long-term platform deliverable and ensure all active projects are aligned to leadership goals Act as an organizational resource to unblock and enable multiple engineering teams across diverse platform challenges Design solutions and processes that have meaningful impact across the entire tech org and Exiger’s business and Manage major company-level platform initiatives delivered by multiple teams Instill and promote a culture of learning, engineering excellence, and platform ownership across engineering Contribute to financial planning and the long-term success of the platform team with the business Engage with AWS account teams, evaluate new AWS services for adoption, and influence how Exiger leverages AWS’s evolving platform Own organizational runbook and platform documentation standards; ensure operational knowledge scales with the engineering organization Lead hiring strategy and technical interview calibration for platform engineering; partner with engineering leadership on team growth Ensure operational excellence, managing the CI/CD lifecycle, testing, deployments and self-healing architectures 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 2+ 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 PaaS and 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: Java, Python, Go, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Kargo, ArgoCD, LGTM, ELK Exiger is named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management, twice selected as one of Fast Company's 'Brands That Matter,' and recipient of the Third Party Risk Association's Innovator Award, Exiger's technology has been recognized by leading analyst evaluations and 50+ awards. Learn more at Exiger.com and follow Exiger on LinkedIn. At Exiger, our values define how we work and why we lead. We are mission-inspired, imagination-driven, trust-anchored, and compassion-focused—committed to building technology that makes the world safer, more transparent, and more resilient. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law. Exiger’s hybrid work policy is periodically reviewed and adjusted to align with evolving business needs.