Engineering Manager (Platform)

The core of our achievements is our team. We believe in people and shared values SELECT. That’s why, together with Vladyslav Kiriushkin - Engineering Manager at Platform tribe, we’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our new team transforming the EdTech industry.

What will you do:

• Lead a new team as Engineering Manager and take ownership of delivering the MVP for a new Payments Product: ship the first version, prove value, and take it to production with measurable outcomes.
• Be hands-on early: partner with the team as a strong IC to shape architecture, unblock delivery, and set a high engineering bar.
• Build the technical foundation for a mission-critical product: correctness-oriented workflows, reliable integrations, and production-grade observability.
• Make it reliable from day one: safe rollouts (feature flags, gradual traffic), incident readiness, and an SLO mindset.
• Drive cross-team delivery: align dependencies across Engineering, Product, Finance, and other stakeholders; coordinate changes to existing systems.

• Build the team: hiring, onboarding, team shape, execution cadence, feedback culture, and stakeholder management.

   

What do you need to join us:

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with ownership of production services end-to-end.;
• Strong experience building distributed systems (APIs, async processing, databases) and operating them (monitoring, debugging, incidents);
• Proven ability to lead technical decisions and deliver through ambiguity (trade-offs, staged rollout, migrations).;

• Security fundamentals: secrets management, access control, threat-aware design.

   

Would be a plus:

• Experience building financial/transactional workflows with high correctness requirements: idempotency, clear state transitions, audit logs, and safe failure handling.

• Experience in payments/fintech/billing/risk, or heavy third-party integrations.

   

Challenges you will face:

• High stakes + ambiguity: you’ll lead a new product area where correctness and reliability matter, while the MVP-to-platform roadmap is still evolving.
• Hands-on EM reality: balancing management responsibilities with being deeply involved in early architecture and delivery.
• Cross-team coordination: success depends on aligning multiple teams and stakeholders, managing dependencies, and driving decisions when priorities compete.

• Building while shipping: hiring and forming the team while simultaneously delivering production outcomes.

   

What do we offer:

• Work within an ambitious team on a socially impactful education product.
• An office with a reliable shelter, generators, satellite internet, and other amenities.
• Access to our corporate knowledge base and professional communities.
• Personal development plan.
• Compensation for English language learning, external training, and courses.
• Medical insurance and full sick leave compensation.

• Corporate holidays: we take a week-long paid holiday to rest and recharge twice a year.

   

Are you interested?

Send your CV!