Sr. Engineering Manager, App Platform

About Highspot

Highspot is pioneering the category that is fundamentally changing the way companies increase sales productivity. On a mission to transform the way millions of people work with sales enablement, Highspot is committed to building breakthrough software with a spark of magic. We believe a great place to work is about more than the work – it’s about what the company stands for, and how it authentically represents its values in the real world. To this end, we have put intentional focus on creating equitable workspaces for each of our employees. Our goal is to create a culture where everyone feels a deep sense of belonging and is empowered to be an agent of change, with the ability to transform themselves, their workplace, and their world.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager, App Platform to lead a critical engineering function. This team is responsible for delivering high-impact investments across the application stack designed to mitigate critical business risks, enhance engineering productivity, and ensure the long-term scalability, security, and maintainability of the platform.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will play a key role in driving the long-term technology vision and platform strategy, while also ensuring day-to-day operational excellence. You will lead a team of highly-skilled engineers, provide technical direction, collaborate across Engineering and Product, and ensure our core platform enables our team to deliver quickly and at high quality.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow the App Platform team
• Drive the technical roadmap and vision for the platform, providing a robust front-end and back-end foundation and tools to accelerate delivery and improve developer experience.
• Lead initiatives to evolve our architecture towards a highly distributed, service-oriented model, including strategic refactoring of existing monolithic components.
• Partner closely with Infrastructure teams to drive end-to-end developer experience improvements from local development through production deployment
• Define standards, patterns, and practices for software development across Highspot
• Contribute to architectural decisions that shape the long-term direction of Highspot’s SaaS platform, with a focus on designing and implementing scalable, decoupled services.
• Attract, retain, and develop top engineering talent, building a high-performing and inclusive team culture.
• Communicate effectively with senior leadership, providing visibility into roadmap progress, technical trade-offs, and organizational needs.

Your Background

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years in engineering leadership roles.
• Strong full-stack engineering background involving SPA web application development, distributed systems, relational and non-relational databases, and cloud infrastructure, with specific expertise in designing and evolving service-oriented architectures.
• Demonstrated success in leading and executing complex refactoring efforts to decompose monolithic applications into microservices or other distributed patterns
• A results-driven approach to removing friction from software development processes through platform developer experience, and tooling investments.
• Proven track record of scaling SaaS platforms and leading teams responsible for mission-critical backend systems.
• Ability to influence without authority with past experience successfully driving cross-functional engineering efforts.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and executive stakeholder management skills.
• Passion for developing people and building strong, healthy engineering teams.

Highly Desired

• Recent hands-on experience developing in Ruby and TypeScript.
• Past experience directly leading internal-facing developer experience or platform teams.

Why Highspot

• A fast-growing SaaS company with market leadership and world-class customers.
• An opportunity to shape the core technology foundation for Highspot’s next stage of growth.
• A highly collaborative and supportive leadership team that values technical excellence and strong management.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and career growth opportunities.

Base salary range: $167,000 - $290,000

Employees are eligible to receive stock options and may also receive other forms of compensation.

The above represents total expected compensation for this role. Actual compensation will depend on various job-related factors, including, but not limited to, location, experience, and job qualifications.

Highspot also offers the following employee benefits for this position:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401(k) Matching with immediate vesting on employer match
• Flexible PTO
• 8 paid holidays and 5 paid days for Annual Holiday Week
• Quarterly Recharge Fridays (paid days off for mental health recharge)
• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Access to Coaches and Therapists through Modern Health
• 2 volunteer days per year
• Commuting benefits

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Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, citizenship, color, ethnicity, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or invisible disability status, political affiliation, veteran status, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

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