Senior Engineering Manager

**Title:** Sr. Engineering Manager **Reports To:** CTO **Location:** Remote (NYC Strongly Preferred) **About Us** ------------ We’ve built the system of record for the $200\+ billion insurance brokerage and agency market — an industry that forms the backbone of our modern economy. We serve a strong roster of customers including industry leaders like USAA and many others. WR Berkley, a Fortune 500 insurance holding company, led our Series B and provides invaluable strategic partnership as we reshape the insurance technology landscape. **About the Role** ------------------ amplo is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to own engineering excellence, delivery, team health, and technical quality across the amplo platform. This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of people, process, and technology – the bridge between execution, strategy, and the daily technical work that ships product customers rely on. You’ll carry scope across multiple teams, reporting directly to the CTO and will partner closely with Product, CX, and the GMT team to translate company priorities into predictable, high\-quality delivery. This is the right role for you if you see strong engineering management as a force multiplier – that the right norms and rituals can make the difference between a team that occasionally ships and one that delivers consistently. Experience with AI development workflows and someone who is interested in how AI is reshaping engineering teams work will set you apart. **What You'll Do** ------------------ **Establish and drive engineering excellence:** Own the operational baseline for how amplo’s engineering team works. Define the metrics, audit where the team is today, and build a clear path to improve how software gets built. **Bridge the Technical and the Non\-Technical** Serve as the translation layer between engineering reality and business context. Help engineers see the forest through the trees — connecting their day\-to\-day work to customer impact and company priorities. Equally, help non\-technical stakeholders understand what's actually hard, what's at risk, and what tradeoffs are on the table. **Lead and Develop the Engineering Team:** Directly manage a team of \~10 engineers. Build a team culture that moves through storming and norming toward genuinely high performance. Invest in the people, not just the output. **Own Compliance and Reliability** Operate within SOC 2 Type 2 controls and partner with compliance on evidence and audits. Ensure teams meet data\-handling, access, and audit\-trail requirements as a matter of standard practice — not a sprint scramble before an audit. **What You’ll Need** -------------------- * 8\+ years of engineering experience including 4\+ Years managing engineers in a SaaS environment. * An operational excellence skillset – you've built the systems, rituals, and metrics that make engineering teams predictably great. * Strong technical foundation with depth in backe