About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Software Development Manager to lead MaintainX's Platform division, which includes seven foundational teams. This manager-of-managers role is ideal for someone looking to shape the operational strategy of a high-growth engineering organization at scale.
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap and operating model for Platform Engineering, setting division-level priorities and managing cross-team dependencies.
- Translate business goals into multi-quarter platform investments.
- Lead and develop a team of Software Development Managers, coaching them on people development, technical judgment, and organizational effectiveness.
- Set engineering standards for all product teams, including framework conventions, reliability targets, compliance posture, and CI/CD health.
- Drive the company's AI-native platform strategy, ensuring the organization leverages AI Builder teams effectively.
- Own division-level reliability, including SLO definitions, incident response frameworks, and on-call health.
- Partner with the CTO and peer engineering leaders on organizational design, architectural decisions, and headcount planning.
- Represent Platform Engineering to the business, communicating the impact of infrastructure investments on engineering velocity, developer experience, and customer trust.
Requirements
- 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in engineering leadership.
- 2+ years managing managers across multiple teams.
- Technical depth in at least two of: distributed systems, backend or mobile frameworks, platform engineering, reliability engineering.
- Track record of owning platform or infrastructure-focused teams at a growth-stage B2B SaaS company.
- Demonstrated impact on engineering velocity.
- Experience setting direction for teams building on LLMs and agentic workflows.
- Systems thinker capable of identifying and eliminating organizational bottlenecks.
- Strong communicator able to articulate platform complexity and tradeoffs to various stakeholders.
Skills
- Distributed systems
- Backend frameworks
- Mobile frameworks
- Platform engineering
- Reliability engineering
- AI-native development
- LLM
- Agentic workflows
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years software engineering
- 5+ years engineering leadership
- 2+ years managing managers
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Meaningful equity opportunities
- Healthcare coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k) / RRSP enrollment program
- Take what you need PTO
About the Company
- MaintainX is the leading AI-powered Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) platform built for the modern world.
- Our mission is to make the lives of blue-collar workers easier worldwide by providing intuitive, mobile-first software that helps teams keep the physical world running.
- MaintainX powers operational excellence for 12,000+ businesses including Duracell, Univar Solutions Inc., Titan America, McDonald's, Brenntag, Cintas, Xylem, and Shell.
- We recently completed a $150 million Series D round, bringing our total funding to $254 million and valuing the company at $2.5 billion.
- We’re redefining how maintenance and operations teams work—transforming maintenance from a cost center into a strategic lever for growth.
- MaintainX fuses enterprise strength with consumer simplicity, empowering organizations to boost reliability, performance, and efficiency.
- Our mission is to make the life of blue-collar workers easier worldwide by creating software that meets their needs and realities.
- Our product is truly life-changing for that 80% of the workforce who doesn’t work behind a desk and needs enterprise-grade software at their fingertips.
Equal Opportunity
- MaintainX is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
