Technical Hiring Manager

Job Description

Job Description

This position is located onsite in Detroit, MI.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Technical Hiring Manager with deep expertise in software platforms and complex software systems to lead and execute high-impact technical hiring across the organization. This role sits at the intersection of engineering excellence and talent strategy, ensuring the company attracts, evaluates, and hires world-class technical talent. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background, sound engineering judgment, and proven experience partnering with engineering leadership to build high-performing teams. They are fluent in modern software architectures and capable of assessing engineers across disciplines, seniority levels, and system complexity.

Responsibilities

• Technical Hiring Strategy
  • Own and drive end-to-end technical hiring strategies for software engineers and technical roles
  • Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to forecast hiring needs aligned to platform and system roadmaps
  • Define hiring priorities based on platform complexity, scalability requirements, and long-term architecture goals
  • Establish consistent, high-bar technical hiring standards across teams

• Technical Evaluation & Interviewing
  • Design and oversee interview frameworks that accurately assess system design, platform thinking, and engineering depth
  • Personally conduct technical interviews, including:
    • Software architecture and system design
    • Platform scalability and reliability
    • Code quality, trade-off analysis, and problem-solving
  • Ensure hiring decisions reflect both immediate execution needs and long-term system ownership

• Software Platform & Systems Expertise
  • Apply deep knowledge of software platforms, distributed systems, and application architectures to hiring decisions
  • Evaluate candidates' experience with:
    • Large-scale, distributed or cloud-native systems
    • APIs, services, data pipelines, and platform components
    • Reliability, performance, security, and maintainability
  • Act as a technical advisor on role definition, leveling, and scope

• Process, Quality & Continuous Improvement
  • Improve technical hiring processes to ensure fairness, consistency, and high signal-to-noise ratio
  • Train and calibrate interviewers on system-level and platform-level evaluation
  • Partner with Talent Acquisition on candidate experience, interview logistics, and pipeline health
  • Track hiring outcomes and iterate on interview quality and effectiveness

• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Leadership
  • Work closely with HR, recruiters, and engineering leaders to align hiring with company values and culture
  • Provide hiring guidance to leadership on talent gaps, risk areas, and workforce planning
  • Advocate for best practices in technical hiring, diversity, and inclusion
  • Represent engineering standards and bar within hiring forums and executive discussions

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or technical leadership
• Proven experience as a hiring manager for software engineers and technical roles
• Deep understanding of modern software systems and platforms, including:
  • Distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
  • Cloud-native platforms and infrastructure
  • Data-intensive and high-availability systems

• Strong knowledge of:
  • Software architecture and system design principles
  • Backend and platform engineering concepts
  • API design, microservices, and event-driven systems
  • Scalability, reliability, observability, and security concerns
  • Common programming languages, frameworks, and engineering tools