Job description
About Ontra
Ontra is the leader in AI-powered solutions for the private markets. Powered by industry-leading AI, data from over 2 million contracts, and a global network of legal professionals, Ontra automates critical private market workflows across the fund lifecycle. Ontra’s solutions transform unstructured data trapped in static documents into actionable intelligence, enabling firms to accelerate contracts, streamline compliance, and automate entity management. Trusted by more than 1,000 global GPs, investment banks, law firms, and advisors – including nine of the top ten PEI-ranked firms worldwide – Ontra helps firms focus on what’s important.
Our Culture
Ontra is a remote-first company that values the power of connection. We find innovative ways to stay connected, both virtually and in person. By promoting ownership, inspiring creativity, and championing collaboration, Ontra enables you to shape your impact and growth. Our commitment to innovation extends beyond our technology; it’s embedded in our culture, and AI plays a crucial role in everything we do.
Our culture is one where belonging is the cornerstone of every interaction, rooted in acceptance and respect for all. Our commitment to inclusion begins at the application process, ensuring a fair and equitable hiring experience that values the unique contributions you bring from day one.
For this job we are currently only hiring candidates based in the United States. For more information on where we employ, please see below.
About the Role
Ontra is seeking a Senior Manager, Platform Engineering reporting to one of our Engineering Directors.
This person will lead multiple platform teams responsible for Ontra’s core platform and shared services. This role is both strategic and hands-on, owning delivery of high-impact platform initiatives while growing strong, resilient engineering teams.
You will be accountable for executing a roadmap that includes:
- Unified document ingestion and data models
- Billing and internal tooling that supports scalable SaaS growth
- Closely partner with ML platform team to deliver Global AI search and chat experiences across all products
This is a critical leadership role for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical architecture, people leadership, and cross-functional execution.
The role is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys being hands-on while leading a team of software engineers. If you are interested in not only designing solutions but also shaping the software development culture for a growing team, this role would be a great fit.
If you have a proven track record of leading successful software development projects, developing high performance teams and systems, and you thrive in a highly collaborative environment, we’d love to get to know you!
What You’ll Do
- Plan: Work with our Product and UX teams to understand customer needs and plan highly iterative, lean approaches to address those needs
- Scale: Guide the team to overcome all of the challenges that come with rapidly scaling a company, from technical scaling challenges to human growth scaling challenges
- Collaborate: Partner with other roles such as Product,UX, Architecture, ML, and DevOps to rapidly deliver solutions to our customers that also serve our long-term business objectives
- Inspire: Lead and motivate the team to embrace a high-performance culture where we all aspire to greatness
What You’ll Bring
- Experience: 7+ years of experience as an individual contributor and 3+ years of technical leadership in a high growth, scaling company managing senior engineers
- Technical Leadership: A history of delivering scalable technical solutions that solve customer problems and scale as the business grows
- Team player: Ability to lead a team as well as work alongside them
- Soft skills: Great communication skills, an empathetic approach to teamwork, and the ability to prioritize tasks in a high performance development environment
Pay Transparency
Ontra takes individual candidate location, experience, and skills into consideration when determining compensation. The base pay range is listed below.
Some positions may be eligible for additional compensation, such as commission, variable compensation, profits interest units, or other equity-based compensation, which are not included in the below base pay range.
If you are selected to participate in our interview process, your Talent Acquisition Partner will share more details about the total compensation package for the role.
Base Pay Range
$259,200—$388,800 USD
Hiring Locations We currently hire exclusively in the locations listed below. Select jobs may have more specific location requirements due to business needs.
United States Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington
APAC Hong Kong
EMEA United Kingdom
Benefits Snapshot
- Remote-first working policy, with office hubs in SF, NYC, Santa Barbara, and London
- Twice yearly team offsites for in-person collaboration
- Paid flexible time off policy
- Paid parental leave and benefits
- Employer-supported retirement contributions, varying by country
- Monthly phone and internet reimbursement
- Company-sponsored LinkedIn Learning accounts, department budgets for professional development, and robust onboarding program
- Various options for medical, dental, and vision insurance
Travel Occasional travel is required for Ontra employees, including typically at least twice per year to attend team and larger group off-sites for in-person collaboration. For some roles, additional travel may be required based on the requirements of the role and business need.
Inclusivity Ontra is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Ontra will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected].
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Note on Employment Verification: All employees hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in their particular location.
Note to External Agencies: We are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/CVs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to Ontra will NOT be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place.
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