Sr. Manager, Engineering

At PDI Technologies, we empower some of the world's leading convenience retail and petroleum brands with cutting-edge technology solutions that drive growth and operational efficiency.

By “Connecting Convenience” across the globe, we empower businesses to increase productivity, make more informed decisions, and engage faster with customers through loyalty programs, shopper insights, and unmatched real-time market intelligence via mobile applications, such as Gas Buddy. We’re a global team committed to excellence, collaboration, and driving real impact. Explore our opportunities and become part of a company that values diversity, integrity, and growth.

We are hiring a Senior Manager, Engineering to lead that platform and the team behind it.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role. You will spend real timeinarchitecture, design review, and the code. We are not looking for someone to inherit a platform and keep it running as it is. We are looking for a leader who will assess where the platform stands, define where it needs to go, and drive it there in partnership with architecture, infrastructure, security, and the product teams who build on it.

Domain

Scope

Platform architecture

The end-to-end technical direction of the platform, its service boundaries, and the contracts product teams build against

Embedded analytics

Self-service reporting, dashboarding, and query capabilities delivered inside our products

Applied AI

Conversational and agentic experiences, retrieval-augmented generation, natural-language data access, and the frameworks that make them repeatable across products

Workflow automation

Configurable automation capabilities exposed to product teams and, through them, to customers

Multi-tenancy & access

Tenant isolation, identity integration, authorization, and data access controls across every capability the platform provides

Delivery & operations

Cloud infrastructure, continuous delivery, release safety, observability, performance, and cost

Team

Hiring, coaching, and technical calibration of the platform engineering team, including operational ownership

• Set and own the platform's technical direction.

  Produce a clear-eyed assessment of the current architecture and a sequenced plan to the target state. Make the trade-offs explicit and defend them.

• Treat the platform as a product.

  Define what it offers, who consumes it, and where the boundary sits between platform and product. Makeadoptiona documented, repeatable path rather than a bespoke project each time.

• Deliver analytics and AI capabilities that products can actually ship on.

  Balance capability, governance, performance, and cost — with the discipline that enterprise customers and their data require.

• Raise the engineering bar on delivery.

  Automated, safe, observable releases. Design review that improves designs. Standards that hold because they are useful, not because they are mandated.

• Run the platform well.

  Own service levels, reliability, security posture, and unit economics. Know the numbers before you are asked for them.

• Partner across the portfolio.

  Work directly with product engineering leaders, architecture, data engineering, SRE, and security to keep the platform aligned with where the business is going.

• Build the team.

  Hire well, mentor directly, and set the technical standard by example.

• 8+years building and operating production software, including 3+ years leading engineering teams (managing engineers and/or managers).

• Demonstrably hands-on. You can read the code, run the system, debug a production issue, and lead a design review with authority.

• Strong distributed systems and platform architecture background, including API design, service-to-service authentication, and…