Senior Engineering Manager - Platform

Who are we? 

Traild is a high-growth SaaS company redefining how finance teams operate, combining AI, automation, and payments infrastructure to power the future of B2B finance. 

Every year, businesses lose billions to fraud, errors, and mistakes. Traild exists to solve this at scale, helping finance teams move faster, stay in control, and operate with confidence. 

With rapid customer growth, global expansion across APAC, North America and EMEA, and continued investment in product innovation, we are at a defining stage of our journey. 

This is an opportunity to help shape the next category leader in finance automation, control and security, building technology that transforms how businesses manage, move, and protect money. At the core of this is a powerful AI-driven platform, enabling finance teams to deploy intelligent agents that do the work, surface risk in real time, and continuously improve how financial operations run. 

Traild is building the infrastructure behind modern finance, protecting and powering meaningful volumes of the world’s B2B transactions. 

If you’re excited by high growth, real ownership, and building something that matters, Traild is the place to do the most impactful work of your career. 

The Role: 

As a Senior Engineering Manager for our Platform Engineering team, you will lead a talented team of platform engineers while taking full accountability for the performance, delivery, and evolution of the engineering foundations that power every product at Traild.
Platform Engineering sits at the heart of our technology organisation, owning the cloud infrastructure and developer platforms that enable our product engineering teams to build, ship and operate software at scale. You will lead the team responsible for our GCP infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, CI/CD pipelines, observability, infrastructure-as-code, developer experience, and FinOps, solving complex technical challenges across scalability, reliability, automation, and cloud operations.
This is a rare opportunity to join at the beginning of a significant growth journey. You'll initially lead a close-knit, high-performing team of four engineers, with the mandate to shape the team's technical direction, operating model, and long-term strategy. As Traild continues to scale globally, so too will Platform Engineering, expanding in both capability and size to include areas such as cloud and product security, with future opportunities to build additional squads and progress into managing Engineering Managers as the organisation grows.
This role is ideal for an experienced engineering leader who enjoys remaining close to the technology while building high-performing teams, and is excited by the opportunity to create the platform that enables hundreds of engineers to move faster, more safely, and with greater confidence.

What Leadership Looks Like Here 

As a member of the engineering leadership team, you will be expected to own and actively drive technical direction, architecture quality, and engineering standards across your group. You will set and maintain a clear roadmap and a technical vision connecting every initiative to customer and business outcomes and own key engineering metrics.  

You will build the systems and playbooks that make high performance repeatable, from incident response to onboarding, and lead with an AI-first mindset, continuously raising the bar on how your teams use AI to improve speed and quality. Your first team is your fellow engineering leaders, and you will be expected to contribute to the strength of that group, project a unified front, and help build the leadership culture that scales Traild. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Own the technical direction, architecture quality, and engineering standards across your group, setting the bar actively rather than reactively. 

• Define and maintain a roadmap that connects engineering work to clear customer and business outcomes, with visibility across the full team. 

• Build and maintain the systems, playbooks, and feedback loops that make your teams fast, reliable, and self-sufficient. 

• Lead, coach, and develop Engineering Managers and individual contributors, with a focus on equitable growth, stretch opportunities, and high performance. 

• Own your team's key delivery metrics including cycle time, deployment frequency, and incident rate, and drive continuous improvement against them. 

• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to scope, resource, and deliver outcomes across a globally distributed team. 

• Hire talented engineers who share our values and set them up for success from day one. 

Who You Are:   

• An experienced engineering leader who has managed managers and owned outcomes across multiple squads in a fast-moving product environment. 

• Strong technical foundation in backend and distributed systems, with the ability to set direction and make trade-offs visible, not just validate what engineers propose. 

• A clear and confident communicator who can align stakeholders, break down complexity, and hold a consistent position across product, engineering, and the business. 

• A coach and mentor who understands how people grow, invests in emerging talent, and addresses underperformance directly and with care. 

• Someone who leads with an AI-first mindset and brings genuine curiosity about how to use new tools to raise the quality and speed of engineering work. 

• A team-first leader who contributes to a high-trust, inclusive culture. 

The Perks of Working at Traild   

• Flexibility: we offer a range of remote, hybrid and flexible working options.  

• Global team: we are growing across APAC, North America and EMEA and have team all across the world.  

• We are growing at an exponential rate, this is an opportunity to get involved with a true rocket ship with all the excitement and opportunities that comes with it  

• Our team genuinely loves working at Traild: our eNPS score is 78, where anything above 50 is considered world-class. 

Please note that the final applicants for this job will be asked to consent in writing to a police check / criminal background check to the extent permitted by law in your jurisdiction of employment. Please note that Traild is an E-Verify employer.