• Lead one engineering team and operate as a hands-on technical leader, spending approximately 75% of your time coding and leading projects, and 25% on people management. • Success in this role means delivering high-quality software, unblocking the team through technical leadership, and supporting the growth and performance of a small group of engineers.

• Lead and support a cross-functional team of Frontend, Backend/API, and Quality Assurance engineers to achieve team objectives and milestones • Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from ideation and planning through development, testing, customer feedback, and iteration • Collaborate with Product Managers to break down features into technical requirements and delivery plans • Provide architectural and design direction, manage technical debt, and promote engineering best practices • Proactively identify and implement improvements across the full technology stack • Build and maintain backend systems using Python, Airflow, PostgreSQL, and Kafka • Partner with Product Owners, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists to expose and integrate data within web applications • Collaborate with other Engineering Managers on cross-team initiatives such as CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and front-end logging • Lead agile ceremonies and support effective team execution

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of data platform engineers—supporting technical growth, career progression, and performance. • Define and execute the platform strategy and roadmap aligned with company priorities and partner needs. • Ensure the design and operation of high-performance pipelines and data services (batch and streaming) for large-scale workloads. • Implement and improve processes for data quality, lineage, access control, and governance—ensuring trusted, auditable data. • Partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Data teams to deliver end-to-end data products.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description Inspiren is seeking a Manager / Staff Software Engineer, Embedded Platform to own and evolve the software foundation that powers our growing fleet of connected devices in production. This role sits at the intersection of embedded systems, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale device operations, and is critical to ensuring reliability, scalability, and fast iteration as Inspiren expands its device footprint. This is a hands-on technical leadership role reporting to our Director of Platform Engineering, with 1–2 direct reports to start. You’ll partner closely with hardware, firmware, data/AI, security, and infrastructure teams to build robust systems that operate reliably in real-world environments. What You’ll Own - Own and evolve Inspiren’s embedded platform supporting a growing fleet of connected devices in production. - Build systems for provisioning, updating, and monitoring device software with minimal downtime. - Improve reliability, observability, and incident response across device, network, and system layers. - Lead a small team (1–2 engineers), setting technical direction while remaining highly hands-on. - Partner closely with hardware, firmware, cloud, data/AI, and security teams to align standards and tooling. - Enable faster iteration through automation, testing, and strong release processes across device platforms. Qualifications - Experience shipping and operating production systems end-to-end (software, embedded, infrastructure, or platform). - Strong software engineering fundamentals, even if part of your background is in hardware, firmware, or embedded systems. - Hands-on experience with Linux-based systems and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred). - Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, or similar). - Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, TypeScript). - Experience supporting systems at meaningful scale (e.g., large device fleets or user bases). - Ability to influence across teams and work effectively in a fast-moving, startup environment. - Startup experience preferred (Series C/D a plus), with a willingness to be scrappy and pragmatic. - Prior management experience is a plus but not required. Requirements - AI Adoption: You actively use AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) as a core part of how you work. Your AI usage goes well beyond basic prompting and into automating tasks, long-running processes, and complex integrations. - We care more about depth of impact and ownership than checking every box. If your experience spans software and embedded or hardware-adjacent systems, we encourage you to apply. Benefits - The annual salary for this role is $200,000-$230,000 + equity + benefits (including medical, dental, and vision, and parental leave). - Flexible PTO. - Location: Remote, US or Canada. - NYC Preferred. - NYC-based candidates: hybrid, in-office collaboration expected. - Non-NYC candidates: periodic travel for installs and team collaboration. - Expected travel: ~1x per quarter within the US.