The client is a category-leading data infrastructure and AI-powered customer data platform company that connects data warehouses with CRMs, advertising platforms, analytics tools, and other business applications. The Engineering Manager, Destinations will lead the team responsible for destination integrations, oversee customer-facing infrastructure projects, guide technical decisions, improve platform reliability and scalability, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on.

Responsibilities:

Lead the engineering team responsible for 300+ destination integrations
Manage and mentor a team of approximately 8 software engineers
Drive execution across customer-facing infrastructure projects
Balance leadership responsibilities with hands-on technical contributions
Prioritize new integrations, enhancements, and platform improvements
Partner directly with customers and integration partners
Improve sync speed, reliability, and performance across the platform
Drive initiatives involving parallelism, batching, and rate-limit optimization
Help scale integration infrastructure supporting thousands of daily syncs
Guide architecture and technical decision-making across the team
Coach engineers and raise the technical execution bar
Improve engineering processes, planning, and delivery velocity
Collaborate closely with product, customer success, and leadership teams
Evaluate technical tradeoffs balancing customer impact and long-term scalability
Drive adoption of AI tooling to improve engineering productivity
Contribute to hiring, team development, and organizational growth
Operate with high ownership and autonomy across critical platform infrastructure
Represent the team internally and externally when needed

Requirements:

- 6+ years of backend software engineering experience
- 1–3 years of engineering management experience
- Experience managing and hiring software engineers
- Strong platform engineering experience
- Experience building API integrations and data infrastructure
- Experience working in venture-backed startups during growth stages
- Experience operating in fast-paced engineering organizations
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals
- Experience with performance optimization and scalability challenges
- Experience building customer-facing infrastructure products
- Strong system design skills
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable remaining hands-on as an engineering manager
- Experience mentoring and developing engineers
- Ability to balance technical leadership with execution
- Managed teams of 5–10 engineers
- Demonstrated success mentoring junior engineers
- Experience hiring and growing engineering teams
- Strong player-coach leadership style
- Proven ability to drive execution through others
- Built API integration platforms
- Experience with sync infrastructure
- Data pipeline ownership experience
- Event-driven architecture experience
- Distributed systems expertise
- Platform scalability experience
- Joined startups during growth stages
- Experience scaling products from Series B through Series D+
- High-growth SaaS experience
- Demonstrated ownership of customer-facing systems
- Strong execution velocity
- Reverse ETL experience
- Customer data platform experience
- Marketing technology infrastructure
- AI-powered product experience
- Developer productivity tooling experience
- Large-scale integration ecosystems
- Performance optimization expertise
- Infrastructure supporting enterprise customers

Engineering Manager, Destinations

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