Engineering Manager - Platform

About Clipboard

Our mission is to uplift as many communities as possible. We do this through our app‑based marketplace that connects healthcare professionals with the workplaces that need amazing workers. This enables hundreds of thousands of people to achieve financial stability for themselves and their families while providing essential care to millions of people across the U.S.

Founded in 2016, we are a remote‑first team of over 1,000 people building a top Y‑Combinator company and have been profitable since 2022. We’re the leader in Long‑Term Care staffing and are rapidly expanding into Home Health, Hospitals, and more, meaning we have more work to do than people to do it, and we’re growing our team to support millions more people and their communities.

Engineering at Clipboard is deeply embedded in the business. Our exceptional engineers own the full software development lifecycle, from design and implementation through deployment and ongoing support. Engineers have real autonomy over their work and are expected to take full ownership of what they build. They work closely with product and operations, and interact directly with customers, solving complex marketplace and operational problems that impact thousands of healthcare workers and facilities every day.

Our Engineering Managers maintain a high technical and execution bar across the team, help teams continuously raise the bar, and create an environment where the team consistently delivers high‑quality work.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Platform team – the team that builds our self‑serve developer platform (infrastructure, tools, processes, and education) that lets every engineer at Clipboard design, build, test, deploy, and secure software unreasonably fast and with uncompromising standards – increasingly for AI‑augmented and AI‑autonomous development. You’ll co‑own customer outcomes with product teams, lead with a genuinely customer‑centric mindset, and measure success by real adoption and impact.

This is a hands‑on leadership role. We expect our EMs to stay close enough to the work to reason about real tradeoffs in systems, infrastructure, deployments, reliability, and security. That means backing strong technical decisions and noticing when something doesn’t feel right, even if you’re not coding day‑to‑day. You’ll balance technical direction, execution, and people development, coaching engineers so they keep growing while the team ships consistently.

Platform sees across all engineering, so judgment and prioritization matter a lot. You’ll decide where cross‑cutting friction is worth centralizing, when to build the paved path versus letting teams solve their own problems, and how to get ahead of new opportunities and risks – including those introduced by AI‑augmented and AI‑autonomous development. The best person here can make clear calls amid ambiguity and keep the team focused on the work that actually moves engineering forward.

The Platform team exists to take focused ownership of problems that don’t belong to any one team. When no one owns them, everyone slows down. Deep technical work like databases, infrastructure, and deployments needs real experts. Reliability, performance, and security quietly degrade when they’re nobody’s job, and shared libraries and systems turn into nobody’s responsibility.

We support an engineering, product, and design organization of around 100 people and growing. Our mandate is to solve cross‑cutting problems once so every team benefits; build the common tools, process, and infrastructure (the “paved path”) that reduce the work and cognitive load of shipping; own the hard tech and the non‑functional work the business depends on; own shared systems like auth, notifications, and chat that all product engineering teams need;

and set guardrails that keep production safe, in partnership with our Security team.

Our delivery teams own their areas end‑to‑end: building, testing, deploying, and operating, with no QA or Dev Ops layer in between. This provides our engineers complete autonomy and ownership, empowering…