Senior Engineering Manager

Overview

Kharon is seeking a full-time Senior Engineering Manager based in Denver. This role requires in-office attendance 3 days a week.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of full-stack, frontend and backend engineers across a few squads, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and high performance.
• Own the architecture and delivery of Kharon’s application suite—ensuring services are modular, scalable, and performant while maintaining tight alignment with platform goals.
• Establish and enforce best practices for API design (REST/Graph
  
  QL), microservices orchestration, frontend state management, and architectural documentation.
• Drive adoption of modern application tooling (e.g., React, Vue, Java and Python, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS-native services) and cloud-native architectural patterns.
• Implement and oversee application governance including security protocols (OWASP), service-level objectives (SLOs), and automated testing strategies.
• Promote a culture of quality and user-centricity, ensuring high availability, low latency, and a seamless user experience across all platforms.
• Evaluate and implement LLM integrations and emerging AI technologies into the product interface to enhance user workflows and deliver intelligent application features.
• Optimize the Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with a focus on developer experience, automation, and continuous deployment.
• Translate business requirements into technical roadmaps, partnering with Product and Data teams to build features that turn complex data into actionable insights.

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent additional experience
• 8-10+ years software engineering, of which includes 2-3+ years working as an engineering manager leading multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Java, or a comparable language, with a solid foundation in modern software development practices.
• Deep experience designing and scaling web applications and cloud native architectures.
• Proven ability to lead high-performing teams with a focus on mentorship, technical rigor, and a strong engineering culture.
• Strategic thinker with a track record of delivering measurable outcomes, driving technical roadmaps, and aligning initiatives with business goals.
• Experience working across global markets and collaborating with cross-functional partners in fast-moving environments.

Kharon is a highly disruptive and incredibly innovative organization that navigates risk at the intersection of global security threats + international commerce.

What does that mean? Great question.

Operating at the nexus of global security, Kharon is on a mission to revolutionize the current landscape. We take really complex data as it relates to global security and empower our clients to not only understand the risk associated with their potential business relationships but to operationalize that data so that they can make the best and most informed decisions possible.

From financial crimes and sanctions to export controls and threat identifications, our tools optimize protection against the types of risks that could otherwise be incredibly dangerous and excessively costly to any business. Serving many of today’s leading global financial and multinational institutions, Kharon products are the most powerful in the space with a precision and depth that is absolutely unparalleled.

When you look at any major global crisis event, we’re providing intelligence that’s at the heart of those circumstances. We connect the dots in a way that’s meaningful. Now, we’re experiencing unprecedented growth. As the world continues to evolve in complexity, so too does the demand for our products. Given the significance of our work and the increasing global reliance on our insights, we are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join us as we work to shape the way businesses perceive and navigate global risks.

Kharon is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the development of a modern, scalable application architecture that underpins our core intelligence and analytics products. This role is…