Senior Engineering Manager

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 unlock efficiencies 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.

Senior Engineering Manager

Location: McLean, VA,  New York, NY, or Richmond, VA

Work Environment: Hybrid:

Role Summary:

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Engineering Manager to lead our Risk Team, the group responsible for our core risk engine - the cornerstone of our platform. By combining data on global companies with signals from worldwide events, our Risk Team builds systems that transform massive volumes of raw data into actionable risk insights. These insights help our customers identify and mitigate potential risks in their suppliers and partners, driving smarter and safer business decisions.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll guide a cross-functional team of backend, frontend, and data engineers to build reliable, scalable web applications and services that power our SaaS platform. 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:

• Own Exiger's Risk function end-to-end
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of ~10 engineers (frontend, backend, and data), fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Drive delivery of new features across multiple services and systems, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-quality releases
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, Data Science, Infrastructure, as well as other dev teams to align priorities and deliver business value
• Oversee architecture and design decisions, helping the team make tradeoffs between performance, scalability, and time-to-market
• Ensure reliability and observability across our microservices ecosystem, including production monitoring, alerting, and recovery
• Ensure operational excellence, managing the CI/CD lifecycle, testing, and deployments
• Scale systems and processes as the company grows-helping us transition from rapid development to sustainable, high-quality delivery at scale

What You Need:

• 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
• 3+ 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 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:

• Core Platform: Java (21+) / Spring Boot; Python / Celery
• Data: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake
• Frontend: TypeScript / Angular
• Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes via Helm and Argo CD; AWS via Terraform
• Testing: Testcontainers, WireMock, JUnit, Pytest, Cypress
• Observability: ELK, DataDog
• Architecture: Event-Driven Microservices

Why You'll Love Working at Exiger:

• High-performance culture rooted in accountability, collaboration, and a shared commitment to excellence.
• Discretionary Time Off for all employees, with no maximum limits on time off 
• Industry leading health, vision, and dental benefits
• Competitive compensation package 
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave 
• Flexible, hybrid approach to working from home and in the office where applicable
• Focus on wellness and employee health through stipends and dedicated wellness programming 
• Purposeful career development programs with reimbursement provided for educational certifications

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.