Senior Engineering Manager - Developer Experience Platform

Fin is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams. Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers. What's the opportunity? Fin wins by shipping quickly with confidence. Shipping is our heartbeat . Builder Tools (Developer Experience Platform) is the team that makes shipping delightful: fast, reliable, and low-toil for hundreds of engineers. We own CI/CD, developer and AI workflows, build and test infrastructure, feature flagging, and observability for shipping pipelines. We’re the platform team that prevents duplicated work across engineering. You will lead and grow a team that builds the systems and tooling enabling Fin to move fast and safely. With AI dramatically accelerating our delivery needs, this role is more critical than ever. Learn how we ship 250 versions of Fin per day , discover our engineering culture at intercom.engineering and explore our engineering values . What will I be doing? Lead the Builder Tools engineering team: hire, coach, set outcomes, remove blockers, and build a high-performance culture. Own the developer experience: define SLOs, build cost models, and measure DX with the same rigor we apply to customer-facing products. Collaborate closely with domain experts and other parts of R&D, earning trust through deep domain expertise. Drive strategic initiatives and deliver high-impact projects reliably and efficiently. Eliminate manual work, integrate modern AI-assisted developer tooling, and raise the bar so it is hard to do the wrong thing (90% of code is already written by Claude). Represent Builder Tools across engineering and beyond, evangelize tooling improvements, and remove organizational barriers to adoption. Be a pragmatic technical leader: make architecture decisions, review designs, and remove technical risk while empowering the team to deliver. Adapt and thrive across functions to ensure objectives are met, frequently stepping beyond traditional boundaries to drive results. What skills do I need? We know lists like this can sound like hard requirements, but they’re not. If you have most of the experience below and are excited by the scope of this role and experience in the area, we’d still love to hear from you. We can shape the position for the right person. Experience leading an infrastructure, platform, or developer experience teams in a cloud environment, ideally AWS. Strong product sense for developer experience: you understand what “delightful” tooling feels like and how to measure it. A track record of independently leading and delivering on complex initiatives, often spanning multiple projects, teams, and quarters. Deep knowledge of modern web and distributed systems; you reason about reliability, performance, and failure modes and choose pragmatic solutions. Excellent communicator: you can align stakeholders, prioritize clearly, and make engineering trade-offs visible. Comfort with data. You define metrics, question outliers, and use telemetry to guide decisions. AI-first mindset: actively explores AI opportunities, champions responsible adoption, and drives quick experiments that are measured for real produ