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Engineering Manager, Platform

Harbinger Motors Inc.Garden Grove🇺🇸United States

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Salary$180k/yr

SeniorityMid Senior

Work modeHybrid

LocationGarden Grove, United States

IoTJira

Job description

About Harbinger

Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger’s best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.

Role Overview

As Engineering Manager, you will lead our multidisciplinary Platform team (Frontend, Backend, and DevOps) in Garden Grove, CA. You will drive the development of critical initiatives, including the Fleet dashboard, payment integration systems, and vehicle configuration tools, while acting as a strategic bridge between firmware and software engineering. In this role, you will resolve cross-functional conflicts, manage prioritization, and foster a culture of technical excellence and delivery. Automotive not required.

What You'll Do:

Lead and grow the Platform team across Frontend, Backend, and DevOps.
Manage high-impact web and app products, including our Fleet management dashboard SaaS product, OTA and release management platform, vehicle configuration management, and Harbinger phone app.
Lead on architecture, technology, and hiring roadmap for the platform team.
Build complex visual dashboards
Provide guidance and mentorship on architectural and technical decision making, in setting up the products for scalability and alignment with the product roadmap.
Foster a collaborative team culture focused on end-to-end delivery and technical excellence.
Manage internal technical teams and external design teams towards delivery targets.

Who You Are:

Domain agility: Automotive experience is not a requirement; we value the ability to transfer expertise from other domains (e.g., mapping, IoT, consumer applications).
Deep technical expertise with solid architectural understanding and hands-on experience in React and/or GoLang.
Proven track record of cross-functional leadership and end-to-end delivery.
Experience with telemetry, real-time data visualization, and geospatial dashboards.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with IoT, telemetry, and real-time distributed systems.
Familiarity with workflow management tools such as Jira, Git.
Background in vehicle or asset tracking systems.

Key Benefits & Perks:

Comprehensive Health, Dental & Vision (HDV) – 100% employee covered
Early-stage Stock Options
Robust Retirement Savings (401k, HSA, FSA)
Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) & Parental Leave
Annual Vacation Bonus
Wellness & Fertility Benefits
Cell Phone Stipend
Complimentary Meals & Stocked Kitchens

California Pay Range

$180,000—$220,000 USD

Equal Opportunity

Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Harbinger is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at info@harbingermotors.com.

Candidate Data Privacy

Harbinger may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Harbinger may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

Harbinger may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our HR, legal, and finance teams, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Harbinger affiliates; and (iii) Harbinger’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.

Harbinger may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services. Any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted in response to our job posting shall be considered the property of Harbinger and are not subject to payment of referral or placement fees if any such candidate is later hired by Harbinger unless you have a signed written agreement in place with us which covers the applicable job posting.

Engineering Manager, Platform

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