MaintainX
Enterprise Asset Management
SeniorSoftwareDevelopmentManager,Platform
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“Senior Software Development Manager, Platform at MaintainX. Skills: Platform Engineering, Engineering Leadership, AI Strategy, Reliability Engineering. Own roadmap and operating model for Platform Engineering. Set division-level priorities”
What You'll Achieve.
Boost reliability, performance, and efficiency; Extract real leverage from AI Builder capabilities; Ensure systemic path from incident to prevention; Translate infrastructure investment into engineering velocity, developer experience, and customer trust
Industry & Context.
Systems thinker who identifies organizational bottlenecks and eliminates them
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years in software engineering, 5+ years in engineering leadership, 2+ years managing managers across multiple teams, Technical depth in at least two of: distributed systems, backend or mobile frameworks, platform engineering, reliability engineering, Track record of owning platform or infrastructure-focused teams at a growth-stage B2B SaaS company, AI-forward: you set direction for teams building on LLMs and agentic workflows, Systems thinker who identifies organizational bottlenecks and eliminates them, communicator who can represent platform complexity and tradeoffs clearly to product, finance, and executive stakeholders
Nice to Have
Experience leading a Testing Frameworks, Quality Engineering, or Developer Productivity platform function, Hands-on history scaling developer platforms through rapid headcount growth (Series D+), Familiarity with CMMS, IoT, or industrial SaaS domains
What You'll Do.
Own roadmap and operating model for Platform Engineering
Set division-level priorities
Manage cross-team dependencies
Translate business goals into platform investments
Lead and develop Software Development Managers
Set engineering standards for product teams
Drive AI-native platform strategy
Own division-level reliability
Partner with CTO and peer leaders
Represent Platform Engineering to the business
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Manage cross-team dependencies; Partner with CTO and peer engineering leaders; Represent Platform Engineering to the business
Communication Scope
Represent platform complexity and tradeoffs clearly to product, finance, and executive stakeholders
Process & Methodology
Roadmap ownership, Operating model definition, Multi-quarter platform investments
Full Job Description
MaintainX is the leading AI-powered Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) platform built for the modern world. Our mission is to make the lives of blue-collar workers easier worldwide by providing intuitive, mobile-first software that helps teams keep the physical world running. MaintainX powers operational excellence for 12,000+ businesses including Duracell, Univar Solutions Inc., Titan America, McDonald's, Brenntag, Cintas, Xylem, and Shell. We recently completed a $150 million Series D round, bringing our total funding to $254 million and valuing the company at $2.5 billion. We’re redefining how maintenance and operations teams work—transforming maintenance from a cost center into a strategic lever for growth. MaintainX fuses enterprise strength with consumer simplicity, empowering organizations to boost reliability, performance, and efficiency. The Opportunity We're looking for a Senior Software Development Manager to lead MaintainX's Platform division — the seven foundational teams every product engineer builds on: AI Builder, DevOps, Compliance, Testing Frameworks, Backend Frameworks, Mobile Frameworks, and SRE. This is a manager-of-managers role for someone who wants to define how a high-growth engineering org operates at scale. What You’ll Do: Own the roadmap and operating model for Platform Engineering: set division-level priorities, manage cross-team dependencies, and translate business goals into multi-quarter platform investments. Lead and develop a team of Software Development Managers - coaching on people development, technical judgment, and organizational effectiveness across seven teams. Set the engineering standards every product team depends on: framework conventions, reliability targets, compliance posture, and CI/CD health. Drive MaintainX's AI-native platform strategy - the AI Builder team's agent orchestration, tool registry, and developer environments sit in this division; your job is to ensure the org extracts real leverage from them. Own divisi
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