Senior Engineering Manager

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Responsibilities

• ▹Lead, inspire and grow multiple distributed software engineering teams, fostering a culture of high trust and psychological safety
• ▹Develop engineering talent through coaching, mentorship and performance management, focusing on senior and staff-level engineers
• ▹Own end-to-end delivery and operational excellence of the teams' portfolio, keeping user-facing systems reliable and secure at scale
• ▹Partner with Product, Design and other leaders to set a clear vision, prioritize roadmaps and align long-term strategy
• ▹Provide technical leadership by setting architectural guardrails and guiding major technical decisions without being a direct code contributor
• ▹Uphold rigorous engineering standards, including SLAs/SLOs, security best practices and QA processes
• ▹Champion inclusive, async-first practices for teams spread across an ~8-hour time zone range
• ▹Partner with the local Engineering Director to shape the culture and scale the organization in Europe
• ▹Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure timely resolution of critical issues

Requirements

• ▹Extensive software development experience as an individual contributor, and a proven track record as an Engineering Manager leading multiple distributed teams
• ▹Strong product sense and a proven track record of high-quality results across the full product lifecycle, including B2B SaaS products from backend services and APIs to user-facing workflows
• ▹Ability to dive deep into complex architectural problems and guide senior engineers to sound decisions
• ▹Strategic thinking; setting technical vision over a 6-12 month horizon and managing a complex project portfolio
• ▹Exceptional interpersonal and written communication skills in a remote-first environment
• ▹Track record of hiring and developing senior talent
• ▹High sense of ownership and a strong growth mindset

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with Python
• ▹Experience in the B2B SaaS market
• ▹Experience with modern, event-driven systems and scalable worker frameworks
• ▹Strategic experience designing and scaling an API/Open API to foster an integrations ecosystem
• ▹Experience building and operating complex data connector ecosystems, including iPaaS solutions like Workato
• ▹Experience building Identity, Authentication or Access Management (IAM) solutions

Soft skills

About the company

CaptivateIQ is a leading sales commission platform, recognized by analysts including Forrester and by marketplaces like G2. Its customers include Gong, Lattice and DataRobot, and it is backed by Sequoia, Accel and ICONIQ.