engineering
Posted 2 weeks agoPlatform Engineering Manager
at knock app
Remote
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Requirements
- We're APIs all the way down at Knock—Stripe for payments, Algolia for search, WorkOS for SSO.
- You will have a high degree of ownership and autonomy over the platform team’s roadmap, the people on it, and how we operate.
- experience as an engineering manager in a startup or mid-sized company, leading a platform or infrastructure team that operates at scale. - Strong technical foundations to own an inherently deeply technical area of our service.
- Experience leading on-call rotations, incident response, and the operational maturity that comes with running a high-availability service. - Enough
- experience with fast-growing, well-structured engineering organizations to bring strong ideas in, without following any of them as dogma. - Strong communication skills, with the ability to work in a fully distributed, remote-first team.
- We love to write long-form documents for us, our future selves, and our AI companions.
- A NOTE ON AI AT KNOCK We’re a team that has fully embraced AI tools to help us in our day-to-day.
- As a member of the Knock team, we expect you to be familiar with tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or similar to assist you in your job.
Experience
- WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR IN THIS ROLE - 3+ years of
Contact
- We’re backed by top investors and operators including Craft Ventures, Afore Capital, Preface Ventures, Worklife Capital, Guillermo Rauch (CEO/Founder @ Vercel), Scott Belsky (CPO @ Adobe), Adam Gross (CEO @ Heroku), John Kodumal (CTO @ LaunchDarkly), Nate Stewart (CPO @ Cockroach Labs), Charley Ma, and Zach Holman, to name a few.
Additional details
- ABOUT KNOCK Knock is on a mission to help products communicate with their users in a more thoughtful way.
- Building product notifications in-house takes months, often leading to poor user experiences.
- We believe that—when done right—product notifications help users find value in the products they use every day.